Kite Runner Context

Question 1

1978

Answer 1

Daoud assassinated

Question 2

1979

Answer 2

Soviet Union invasion

Question 3

1987-9

Answer 3

Soviet Union withdraw

Question 4

1987-92

Answer 4

Internal civil war between various mujahideen groups

Question 5

1992-6

Answer 5

Islamic State of Afghanistan established by Northern Alliance

Question 6

1994

Answer 6

Taliban emerges and begins take over

Question 7

1996-2000

Answer 7

Taliban led Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan established

Question 8

1998

Answer 8

Hazara’s massacred at Mazar-i-Sharif

Question 9

2001

Answer 9

Leader of Northern Alliance murdered on orders of Osama Bin Laden

Question 10

2001

Answer 10

Northern Alliance (with help) remove Taliban and Al Queda from power

Question 11

80,000

Answer 11

Missing limbs due to land mines

Question 12

60

Answer 12

Life expectancy in Afghanistan

Question 13

Oppression of Hazara’s

Answer 13

Publicly targeted by Taliban

Question 14

2 million

Answer 14

Orphans

Question 15

Orphans have a high vulnerability for…

Answer 15

Sexual abuse, forced prostitution and financial exploitation as lack basic means of surviving

Question 16

1/3

Answer 16

Land mine victims children

Question 17

2/3

Answer 17

Children have seen someone killed in the fighting in Kabul

Question 18

1973-9

Answer 18

First republic of Afghanistan established by Daoud Shah