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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three,Babylon, The Ishtar Gate: Chapters 34-38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ahmed Rish say are the two possibilities for Jews in Babylon?
(a) Surrender or death.
(b) Infinite sadness or a miracle.
(c) Return home or remain behind.
(d) Conquer or die.

2. How does Ibrahim Arif support the defense effort?
(a) By taunting Ahmed Rish and Salem Hamadi.
(b) By taunting the Palestinian orphans.
(c) By taunting Jacob Hausner.
(d) By taunting the defenders to make them angrier.

3. What is the rabbi's concern about the Concorde flight?
(a) That they arrive in New York before the Sabbath begins at sundown.
(b) That they serve only kosher food on the flight.
(c) That they offer a prayer for safe travel.
(d) That they fast and pray for the peace they will negotiate.

4. What fortunate excess surprises David Becker and Jacob Hausner?
(a) There is more food than they had calculated.
(b) There are fewer attackers than they had calculated.
(c) There is more ammunition than they had calculated.
(d) There is more fuel than they had calculated.

5. Why doesn't David Becker get to congratulate Peter Kahn on getting power to the engine?
(a) Kahn doesn't survive the ignition of the engine.
(b) Kahn falls from the moving aircraft.
(c) Kahn drowns in the Euphrates.
(d) Kahn is shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Nuri Salameh have?

2. Why does Ahmed Rish slap Jacob Hausner?

3. For what does Tom Richardson apologize to Teddy Laskov?

4. Who does the report say freed the defenders?

5. What does Nuri Salameh offer to do in Toulouse?

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