A) 1959 B) 1949 C) 1939 D) 1929
A) Iraq B) Afghanistan C) Iran D) Pakistan
A) Soviet Union B) China C) United States D) United Kingdom
A) Abdul Rashid Dostum B) Mohammad Najibullah C) Ashraf Ghani D) Hamid Karzai
A) CIA B) MI6 C) MOSSAD D) KHAD
A) Mazar-i-Sharif B) Kabul C) Kandahar D) Herat
A) Nur Muhammad Taraki B) Hafizullah Amin C) Mohammad Daoud Khan D) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
A) China B) Pakistan C) India D) Iran
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan B) Sultan Hussein C) Mir Akbar Khyber D) Hafizullah Amin
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan B) Nur Mohammad Taraki C) Mir Akbar Khyber D) Mikhail Gorbachev
A) Khalq faction B) Parcham faction C) Revolutionary faction D) Democratic faction
A) 1973 B) 1986 C) 1978 D) 1967
A) Moscow B) Kabul C) Prague D) Czechoslovakia
A) President of Afghanistan B) Chairman of the Revolutionary Council C) Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council D) General Secretary of PDPA
A) Mikhail Gorbachev B) Sultan Ali Keshtmand C) Hafizullah Amin D) Mohammad Najibullah
A) Dostum exiled him from Afghanistan B) Kārmal served as Dostum's advisor C) They were political rivals D) He became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum
A) Liver cancer B) Heart attack C) Car accident D) Assassination
A) Herat B) Kamari C) Kabul D) Paktia
A) Colonel B) Major general C) Private D) Lieutenant general (three-star rank)
A) Nangarhar and Balkh B) Paktia and Herat C) Kabul and Jalalabad D) Kandahar and Kunduz
A) Uzbek B) Pashtun C) Tajik D) Hazara
A) Afghan Democratic Union B) Tajik Nationalist Party C) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement) D) Pashtun Freedom Fighters
A) Due to his student political activism and openly leftist views B) Due to a family dispute C) Because of poor academic performance D) For lack of necessary qualifications
A) 1948 B) 1956 C) 1960 D) 1953
A) 700 Afghan afghanis B) 300 Afghan afghanis C) 518 Afghan afghanis D) 600 Afghan afghanis
A) Advisor B) Consultant C) Employee from 1961 to 1963 D) Director
A) Until Karmal's death B) For a decade C) For five years D) Until the end of Soviet occupation
A) Alexander Puzanov B) Leonid Brezhnev C) Yuri Andropov D) Alexei Kosygin
A) 20 percent B) 80 percent C) 40 percent D) 60 percent
A) National Revolutionary Party B) Islamic Unity Party C) Khalq faction D) Parchamites
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) March 1980 B) January 1983 C) June 1981 D) December 1982
A) Prohibition of all forms of property B) Complete freedom without any state intervention C) The state could take families under its supervision D) No mention of national security
A) The March Revolution B) The August Revolution C) The April Revolution D) The October Revolution
A) Khalq commanders loyal to Amin B) Saleh Mohammad Zeary C) Amin's daughter along with her baby D) Parchamite leaders
A) Hassan Sharq B) Abdul Qadir C) Niamatullah Pazhwak D) Faiz Mohammad
A) Land redistribution B) Military expansion C) Industrialization efforts D) The literacy programme
A) $22 percent of total expenditure B) $208 million US$ C) $6.4 million US$ D) $325 million US$
A) Three B) Ten C) Five D) Seven
A) 50,000 troops before, 75,000 after B) 100,000 troops before, 25,000 after C) 25,000 troops before, 100,000 after D) 200,000 troops before, 50,000 after
A) Leading a successful coup against Karmal B) Negotiating peace with opposition groups C) Implementing educational reforms D) Committing the Kerala massacre
A) Escalating unrest in the country B) Stable political environment C) Successful economic reforms D) Widespread public support
A) Two major uprisings on 3 Hoot (22 February) B) The signing of a peace treaty C) A declaration of independence from the Soviet Union D) An economic reform announcement
A) Trade B) Service sector C) Agriculture D) Industry
A) 1 January 1980 B) The day after Karmal took power C) 6 January D) 22 April 1980
A) Industry B) Service sector C) Trade D) Agriculture
A) Yuri Andropov B) Alexei Kosygin C) Leonid Brezhnev D) Alexander Puzanov
A) They were neutral observers B) They supported Karmal's policies C) They participated in months-long protests D) They formed a new political party
A) Deputy Prime Minister B) Minister of Education C) Second Secretary D) General Secretary
A) English and German B) French and Russian C) Spanish and Italian D) Arabic and Persian
A) Hafizullah Amin B) Nur Muhammad Taraki C) Mohammed Najibullah D) Muhammad Daoud Khan
A) A simple majority B) A two-thirds majority C) A three-fifths majority D) A unanimous decision
A) 8.3% B) 40% C) 22% D) 2.2%
A) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital B) In Hairatan C) In Kabul during a battle D) In a plane crash along with Dostum
A) Hairatan B) Tashkent C) Moscow D) Kabul
A) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar B) Abdul Rashid Dostum C) Najibullah D) Babrak Karmal
A) Amin B) Karmal C) Taraki D) Watanjar
A) National Revolutionary Party B) Parchamite PDPA C) Soviet Communist Party D) Islamic Unity Party
A) 27 December 1979 B) 28 December 1979 C) 4 September 1979 D) 1 January 1980
A) Hassan Sharq B) Mohammad Taraki C) Babrak Karmal D) Niamatullah Pazhwak |