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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time was written by Greg Mortenson and what author?
(a) Stieg Larsson.
(b) Jonathan Franzen.
(c) David Oliver Relin.
(d) Karl Marlantes.

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

4. When did the Panjdeh Incident take place?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1901.

5. When it was first established, 49% of Ariana Afghan Airlines was owned by what company?
(a) Ford Motor Company.
(b) Halliburton.
(c) Boeing.
(d) Pan American World Airways.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Islamic movement was founded by Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi, Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi, Shah Rafi al-Din, Sayyid Muhammad Abid, Zulfiqar Ali, Fadhl al-Rahman 'Usmani and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi?

2. In Part 1: Chapter 5, CAI had just received a flood of donations due to an article that appeared in what periodical?

3. Ariana Afghan Airlines was established when?

4. What river is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers?

5. What is a non-written ethical code and traditional lifestyle which the indigenous Pashtun people from Afghanistan and Pakistan follow?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does CAI specialize in? Why?

2. What had led to a flood of donations for CAI in Part 1: Chapter 5? What did the money afford them the ability to build?

3. What obstacles for Mortenson are presented in Part 1: Chapters 3 and 4?

4. Where did Sarfraz Khan take Mortenson in Part 1: Chapter 2? Whom did they meet there?

5. What did Mortenson learn from the minister of finance in Part 1: Chapter 3?

6. Who are the Kirghiz people? Where do they live?

7. When did Mortenson first enter Afghanistan in Part 1: Chapter 3? What scenes did he find?

8. How and when did the Taliban rise to power in Afghanistan? What laws did they enact?

9. How did Sarfraz Khan prove to be an asset to Mortenson in Part 1: Chapters 3 and 4?

10. What did Mortenson learn from the children he passed traveling to Faizabad in Part 1: Chapter 6?

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