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