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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. Into what areas does CAI specialize in going into first to establish schools?
(a) War-torn regions.
(b) Devestated areas.
(c) Remote areas.
(d) Hostile countries.

2. Ariana Afghan Airlines was established when?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1966.

3. How old was Greg Mortenson when his family moved to Minnesota in the 1970s?
(a) 15.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 17.

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

5. Under what Soviet leader did the Soviet war in Afghanistan come to an end?
(a) Vladimir Lenin.
(b) Nikolai Podgorny.
(c) Georgy Malenkov.
(d) Mikhail Gorbachev.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Greg Mortenson serve in the U.S. Army after high school?

2. When was Greg Mortenson born?

3. Whose support would Mortenson have to gain in Badakshan in Part 1: Chapter 4?

4. What is the capital of Afghanistan?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What events inspired the formation of CAI?

3. What other works has Greg Mortenson written? What charity did he help form?

4. What did Mortenson hire Sarfraz Khan as in Part 1: Chapter 4?

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

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

7. How were Mortenson and Sarfraz Khan's travels described in Part 1: Chapter 5?

8. How was Sandhar Khan's position on the opium trade described in Part 1: Chapter 5?

9. How was Baharak described in Mortenson's trip in Part 1: Chapter 4?

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

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