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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapters 15-17 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the second most affected district by the Kashmir earthquake, accounting for 15% of the total casualties?
(a) Heyya.
(b) Bagh.
(c) Shukran.
(d) Marhaba.

2. What afflicted Mortenson the night before they were to leave on the final leg of the journey in Part 3: Chapter 16?
(a) Fever and delirium.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Stomach flu.
(d) Smallpox.

3. When Prince Charles of Britain and his wife visited the school at Patika, Chaudry did not mention whose help in the rebuilding of the schools?
(a) CAI's.
(b) FBI's.
(c) NRA's.
(d) KGB's.

4. On what date did Prince Charles of Britain and his wife visit the school at Patika in Part 2: Chapter 11?
(a) February 10, 2005.
(b) May 19, 2003.
(c) November 1, 2006.
(d) March 26, 2007.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reconstruction authority was made by the military regime to accommodate the retired high military officials while keeping the command of the reconstruction and rehabilitation authority directly under the military in Pakistan?

2. In Part 2: Chapter 9, Mortenson found himself obsessed with the activity in Pakistan until the night he realized his five year old son ___________.

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

4. In response to the allegations made against him and his books, Mortenson wrote a statement that was published in what periodical?

5. What tribesmen which Greg Mortenson describes as a kidnapper in Stones into Schools states he is "looking into how to sue" Greg Mortenson for what he claims are lies about him?

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