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A) 1949 B) 1959 C) 1939 D) 1929
A) Afghanistan B) Iran C) Pakistan D) Iraq
A) United States B) China C) Soviet Union D) United Kingdom
A) Abdul Rashid Dostum B) Mohammad Najibullah C) Ashraf Ghani D) Hamid Karzai
A) MOSSAD B) MI6 C) CIA D) KHAD
A) Kandahar B) Kabul C) Mazar-i-Sharif D) Herat
A) Nur Muhammad Taraki B) Hafizullah Amin C) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
A) India B) Iran C) Pakistan D) China
A) Mohammad Daoud Khan B) Sultan Hussein C) Mir Akbar Khyber D) Hafizullah Amin
A) Mikhail Gorbachev B) Mir Akbar Khyber C) Nur Mohammad Taraki D) Mohammad Daoud Khan
A) Democratic faction B) Khalq faction C) Parcham faction D) Revolutionary faction
A) 1986 B) 1967 C) 1973 D) 1978
A) Czechoslovakia B) Prague C) Moscow D) Kabul
A) President of Afghanistan B) General Secretary of PDPA C) Chairman of the Revolutionary Council D) Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Council
A) Mohammad Najibullah B) Hafizullah Amin C) Sultan Ali Keshtmand D) Mikhail Gorbachev
A) He became an associate of Abdul Rashid Dostum B) They were political rivals C) Kārmal served as Dostum's advisor D) Dostum exiled him from Afghanistan
A) Assassination B) Liver cancer C) Heart attack D) Car accident
A) Kamari B) Herat C) Kabul D) Paktia
A) Lieutenant general (three-star rank) B) Private C) Major general D) Colonel
A) Paktia and Herat B) Kabul and Jalalabad C) Kandahar and Kunduz D) Nangarhar and Balkh
A) Uzbek B) Hazara C) Tajik D) Pashtun
A) Tajik Nationalist Party B) Pashtun Freedom Fighters C) Afghan Democratic Union D) Wikh-i-Zalmayan (Awakened Youth Movement)
A) Due to his student political activism and openly leftist views B) Due to a family dispute C) Because of poor academic performance D) For lack of necessary qualifications
A) 1953 B) 1960 C) 1956 D) 1948
A) 600 Afghan afghanis B) 518 Afghan afghanis C) 300 Afghan afghanis D) 700 Afghan afghanis
A) Consultant B) Advisor C) Employee from 1961 to 1963 D) Director
A) Until the end of Soviet occupation B) Until Karmal's death C) For five years D) For a decade
A) Leonid Brezhnev B) Alexei Kosygin C) Yuri Andropov D) Alexander Puzanov
A) 20 percent B) 60 percent C) 80 percent D) 40 percent
A) Parchamites B) Islamic Unity Party C) Khalq faction D) National Revolutionary Party
A) Due to economic instability B) Because people would not support armed actions without their backing C) Insufficient international support D) Lack of military strength
A) Tashkent B) Bagram C) Moscow D) Kabul
A) March 1980 B) January 1983 C) June 1981 D) December 1982
A) The state could take families under its supervision B) Complete freedom without any state intervention C) Prohibition of all forms of property D) No mention of national security
A) The August Revolution B) The April Revolution C) The October Revolution D) The March Revolution
A) Saleh Mohammad Zeary B) Amin's daughter along with her baby C) Parchamite leaders D) Khalq commanders loyal to Amin
A) Hassan Sharq B) Abdul Qadir C) Niamatullah Pazhwak D) Faiz Mohammad
A) Military expansion B) Industrialization efforts C) Land redistribution D) The literacy programme
A) $22 percent of total expenditure B) $6.4 million US$ C) $325 million US$ D) $208 million US$
A) Three B) Ten C) Seven D) Five
A) 200,000 troops before, 50,000 after B) 25,000 troops before, 100,000 after C) 100,000 troops before, 25,000 after D) 50,000 troops before, 75,000 after
A) Implementing educational reforms B) Leading a successful coup against Karmal C) Committing the Kerala massacre D) Negotiating peace with opposition groups
A) Escalating unrest in the country B) Widespread public support C) Stable political environment D) Successful economic reforms
A) A declaration of independence from the Soviet Union B) Two major uprisings on 3 Hoot (22 February) C) The signing of a peace treaty D) An economic reform announcement
A) Agriculture B) Service sector C) Trade D) Industry
A) 1 January 1980 B) The day after Karmal took power C) 22 April 1980 D) 6 January
A) Agriculture B) Trade C) Service sector D) Industry
A) Alexei Kosygin B) Alexander Puzanov C) Yuri Andropov D) Leonid Brezhnev
A) They were neutral observers B) They participated in months-long protests C) They formed a new political party D) They supported Karmal's policies
A) Minister of Education B) General Secretary C) Second Secretary D) Deputy Prime Minister
A) French and Russian B) English and German C) Arabic and Persian D) Spanish and Italian
A) Muhammad Daoud Khan B) Hafizullah Amin C) Nur Muhammad Taraki D) Mohammed Najibullah
A) A two-thirds majority B) A simple majority C) A unanimous decision D) A three-fifths majority
A) 22% B) 40% C) 8.3% D) 2.2%
A) Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital B) In Hairatan C) In a plane crash along with Dostum D) In Kabul during a battle
A) Moscow B) Kabul C) Hairatan D) Tashkent
A) Najibullah B) Abdul Rashid Dostum C) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar D) Babrak Karmal
A) Watanjar B) Karmal C) Amin D) Taraki
A) National Revolutionary Party B) Islamic Unity Party C) Parchamite PDPA D) Soviet Communist Party
A) 28 December 1979 B) 1 January 1980 C) 4 September 1979 D) 27 December 1979
A) Mohammad Taraki B) Niamatullah Pazhwak C) Hassan Sharq D) Babrak Karmal |