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