Index at bottom of the page.

1. Which line separates
Afghanistan from Pakistan?


2. How is the event that led to
the invasion of Afghanistan by
USA and its allies known?


3. Who was deposed in 1973?


4. Who was installed as President
of Afghanistan in 1979 after
invasion by USSR?

5. Which of the following
countries did not recognize
the Taliban regime?

6. When was the first Anglo-
Afghan War?

7. Who wrote the story “The
Kabuliwalla”?

8. Which is the highest mountain
in Afghanistan?

9. By which pass in Afghanistan
many invaders came to India?


10. Which river in Afghanistan
joins the Indus in Pakistan?


11. Which two great 19th-century
powers fought for control of
Afghanistan in what is often
called the "Great Game"?

12. What is former British
foreign secretary for India
Sir Mortimer Durand famous for?


13. Which ethnic group does not
have a significant presence in
Afghanistan?

14. Why, in 1978, did the
Soviets hesitate in offering
Afghanistan's new communist
government its total and
unqualified support?

15. Which two groups were
responsible for massacres in
the Afghan city of Herat in 1979?


16. Mujahideen is an Arabic
term meaning what?

17. Which of the following
countries did not provide
support to Afghans fighting
the Soviet occupation?


18. After the Soviet withdrawal,
who said that "the civilized
world" had to fight
fundamentalism in Afghanistan
and warned that failure to do
so would "turn Afghanistan into
a center of . . . drugs [and]
terrorism."

19. Which of the following did
the Taliban not ban while in
power in Afghanistan?

20. Who in 1998 called the
killing of Americans and
their allies "an individual
duty for every Muslim"?