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