A) 1949 B) 1939 C) 1929 D) 1959
A) Pakistan B) Afghanistan C) Iran D) Iraq
A) United Kingdom B) United States C) Soviet Union D) China
A) Ashraf Ghani B) Abdul Rashid Dostum C) Hamid Karzai D) Mohammad Najibullah
A) MI6 B) CIA C) KHAD D) MOSSAD
A) Herat B) Kabul C) Kandahar D) Mazar-i-Sharif
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan B) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar C) Hafizullah Amin D) Nur Muhammad Taraki
A) Iran B) India C) China D) Pakistan
A) Sultan Hussein B) Hafizullah Amin C) Mir Akbar Khyber D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
A) Mikhail Gorbachev B) Nur Mohammad Taraki C) Mir Akbar Khyber D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
A) Parcham faction B) Democratic faction C) Revolutionary faction D) Khalq faction
A) 1973 B) 1978 C) 1967 D) 1986
A) Kabul B) Prague C) Czechoslovakia D) Moscow
A) General Secretary of PDPA B) Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council C) Chairman of the Revolutionary Council D) President of Afghanistan
A) Mikhail Gorbachev B) Mohammad Najibullah C) Hafizullah Amin D) Sultan Ali Keshtmand
A) He became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum B) Dostum exiled him from Afghanistan C) They were political rivals D) Kārmal served as Dostum's advisor
A) Car accident B) Assassination C) Liver cancer D) Heart attack
A) Kamari B) Kabul C) Herat D) Paktia
A) Major general B) Colonel C) Lieutenant general (three-star rank) D) Private
A) Kabul and Jalalabad B) Kandahar and Kunduz C) Nangarhar and Balkh D) Paktia and Herat
A) Uzbek B) Tajik C) Hazara D) Pashtun
A) Pashtun Freedom Fighters B) Tajik Nationalist Party C) Afghan Democratic Union D) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement)
A) For lack of necessary qualifications B) Because of poor academic performance C) Due to his student political activism and openly leftist views D) Due to a family dispute
A) 1956 B) 1948 C) 1960 D) 1953
A) 300 Afghan afghanis B) 700 Afghan afghanis C) 600 Afghan afghanis D) 518 Afghan afghanis
A) Employee from 1961 to 1963 B) Consultant C) Director D) Advisor
A) Until Karmal's death B) Until the end of Soviet occupation C) For a decade D) For five years
A) Alexander Puzanov B) Yuri Andropov C) Alexei Kosygin D) Leonid Brezhnev
A) 20 percent B) 80 percent C) 60 percent D) 40 percent
A) Khalq faction B) Parchamites C) National Revolutionary Party D) Islamic Unity Party
A) Due to economic instability B) Lack of military strength C) Insufficient international support D) Because people would not support armed actions without their backing
A) Kabul B) Moscow C) Tashkent D) Bagram
A) January 1983 B) March 1980 C) June 1981 D) December 1982
A) No mention of national security B) Prohibition of all forms of property C) The state could take families under its supervision D) Complete freedom without any state intervention
A) The April Revolution B) The March Revolution C) The August Revolution D) The October Revolution
A) Parchamite leaders B) Saleh Mohammad Zeary C) Amin's daughter along with her baby D) Khalq commanders loyal to Amin
A) Niamatullah Pazhwak B) Faiz Mohammad C) Hassan Sharq D) Abdul Qadir
A) Military expansion B) Industrialization efforts C) Land redistribution D) The literacy programme
A) $325 million US$ B) $208 million US$ C) $6.4 million US$ D) $22 percent of total expenditure
A) Seven B) Five C) Ten D) Three
A) 200,000 troops before, 50,000 after B) 25,000 troops before, 100,000 after C) 100,000 troops before, 25,000 after D) 50,000 troops before, 75,000 after
A) Implementing educational reforms B) Committing the Kerala massacre C) Negotiating peace with opposition groups D) Leading a successful coup against Karmal
A) Escalating unrest in the country B) Widespread public support C) Successful economic reforms D) Stable political environment
A) The signing of a peace treaty B) A declaration of independence from the Soviet Union C) An economic reform announcement D) Two major uprisings on 3 Hoot (22 February)
A) Industry B) Service sector C) Trade D) Agriculture
A) 6 January B) 1 January 1980 C) The day after Karmal took power D) 22 April 1980
A) Agriculture B) Industry C) Trade D) Service sector
A) Alexei Kosygin B) Leonid Brezhnev C) Alexander Puzanov D) Yuri Andropov
A) They participated in months-long protests B) They supported Karmal's policies C) They were neutral observers D) They formed a new political party
A) Minister of Education B) General Secretary C) Second Secretary D) Deputy Prime Minister
A) Arabic and Persian B) Spanish and Italian C) English and German D) French and Russian
A) Mohammed Najibullah B) Nur Muhammad Taraki C) Hafizullah Amin D) Muhammad Daoud Khan
A) A three-fifths majority B) A two-thirds majority C) A unanimous decision D) A simple majority
A) 40% B) 2.2% C) 22% D) 8.3%
A) In Kabul during a battle B) In Hairatan C) In a plane crash along with Dostum D) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital
A) Tashkent B) Hairatan C) Moscow D) Kabul
A) Najibullah B) Abdul Rashid Dostum C) Babrak Karmal D) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
A) Taraki B) Watanjar C) Amin D) Karmal
A) National Revolutionary Party B) Soviet Communist Party C) Islamic Unity Party D) Parchamite PDPA
A) 28 December 1979 B) 4 September 1979 C) 1 January 1980 D) 27 December 1979
A) Niamatullah Pazhwak B) Mohammad Taraki C) Hassan Sharq D) Babrak Karmal |