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