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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first color that blankets the entire aircraft?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Black.

2. What has Tom Richardson come to get from Teddy Laskov?
(a) A schedule for the peace talks.
(b) Approval for changes being made to the assigned escorts.
(c) Approval of the American participation.
(d) Information about the protective coverage of the Concorde flights.

3. Why does Benjamin Dobkin think the terrorists will attack quickly?
(a) The longer they wait, the more organized the defense becomes.
(b) The longer they wait, the more discouraged they become.
(c) The longer they wait, the worse the light becomes.
(d) The longer they wait, the more weary they become.

4. What thought comforts David Becker during the terrifying flight?
(a) He will bring his passengers home alive.
(b) He has outwitted Ahmed Rish.
(c) His worst flight has been his best.
(d) He has a plan to reduce his fear of flying.

5. What does Isaiah prophecy will be the fate of Babylon?
(a) It will never again be inhabited.
(b) It will never again be remembered.
(c) It will never again conquer the Jews.
(d) It will be conquered by Assyrians.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ahmed Rish prevent communication between Concorde 02 and anyone else?

2. What does Miriam Bernstein hope to gain personally in New York?

3. Who has mentored Miriam Bernstein's career in government?

4. What did Jacob Hausner bring with him that impresses Benjamin Dobkin?

5. What does Nuri Salameh worry about in Algeria?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Golda Meir's quotation inspiring?

2. As an Algerian in France, Nuri Salameh is a "stranger in a strange land." Do you think that situation makes a difference in his decision to obey Ahmed Rish and plant the bomb on the aircraft?

3. What is the metaphor that Ahmed Rish uses about the joker in the deck?

4. What leads Benjamin Dobkin to decide that the terrorists are "very clever fellows"?

5. What compels Nuri Salameh to plant the bomb aboard the aircraft, although he believes it is "a great sin"?

6. What other military group had Teddy Laskov belonged to before he fought for Israel, and why had he left it?

7. What is Ummah and why is it important?

8. How does Benjamin Dobkin react to Jacob Hausner's assumption of leadership within the defenders?

9. What old guerrilla trick have the Palestinians learned from the Viet Cong?

10. Why does Abdel Majid Jabari tell Ibrahim Ali Arif that he is a very self-centered man?

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