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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Soviet war in Afghanistan begin?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1988.

2. What does the word "taliban" mean in Arabic?
(a) Students.
(b) Rulers.
(c) Almighty.
(d) Rebels.

3. What is the approximate population of Faizabad?
(a) 120,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 215,000.
(d) 165,000.

4. What is the highest of civil awards and decorations given by the Government of Pakistan for the highest degree of service to the country and nation of Pakistan?
(a) Sitara-i-Imtiaz.
(b) Nishan-e-Pakistan.
(c) Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam.
(d) Hilal-e-Shujaat.

5. In Part 1: Chapter 6, Mortenson traveled with his bookkeeper in the Wakhan to Baharak shortly after following the publication of an article from what publication, claiming an American soldier flushed the Koran down a toilet?
(a) Time.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) The L.A. Times.
(d) The Wall Street Journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Greg Mortenson when his family moved to Minnesota in the 1970s?

2. What kind of missionaries were Greg Mortenson's parents?

3. Under Taliban law, girls were allowed neither to work nor to be educated after the age of what?

4. What is the name of the remote mountainous section of Afghanistan where the Kirghiz people live?

5. In Part 1: Chapter 5, due to having just received a flood of donations, where was CAI able to agree to build a school to appease Sadhar?

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