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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What river is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers?
(a) Oxus River.
(b) Iftar River.
(c) Umm River.
(d) Asaya River.

2. Who formed the The Central Asia Institute as an American non-profit organization along with Greg Mortenson?
(a) Bill Gates.
(b) Jean Hoerni.
(c) Hiroshi Fujikawa.
(d) Helmut Reinhardt.

3. Where did Mortenson spend his early childhood and adolescence?
(a) Romania.
(b) Italy.
(c) Tanzania.
(d) Egypt.

4. K2 is located among what mountain range?
(a) Kirthar Range.
(b) Toba Kakar Range.
(c) Karakoram Range.
(d) Hindu Kush Range.

5. Under Taliban law, girls were allowed neither to work nor to be educated after the age of what?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 14.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the War in Afghanistan begin with the United States invasion?

2. What is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious?

3. What is the world's highest mountain?

4. What Bantu language did Greg Mortenson learn fluently as a child?

5. What pass between northern Pakistan and the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan is extremely remote and often closed off for six months or more during the winter due to heavy snows?

(see the answer key)

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