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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. How has Miriam Bernstein put Jacob Hausner in a compromising position?
(a) Jacob Hausner must show no feeling, but he loves her.
(b) Jacob Hausner must appear to be impartial, but he loves her.
(c) Jacob Hausner must condemn the woman he loves to death.
(d) Jacob Hausner has converted to her ideas of peaceful negotiation.

2. Who is Saul Ezer?
(a) An Arab representative to the U.N.
(b) An Ashbal combatant.
(c) A permanent Israeli peace delegate to the U.N.
(d) A U.N. interpreter.

3. Who is Sayid Talib?
(a) A seller of dates.
(b) A Jewish Iraqi.
(c) A spy.
(d) A wounded Ashbal.

4. What makes Babylon so difficult for outside help to access?
(a) The lack of roads and communication systems.
(b) The hostile central government.
(c) The flooding Euphrates and the wind.
(d) The language barrier.

5. What does Jacob Hausner say will be their first action if they are overrun?
(a) Rescue the wounded.
(b) Shoot Ahmed Rish.
(c) Surrender.
(d) Shoot the wounded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jacob Hausner decide never to tell Miriam Bernstein?

2. What solution does Miriam Bernstein propose?

3. Why does Teddy Laskov believe Ahmed Rish has not called Jerusalem with demands?

4. What does Samuel Bartok offer to do regardless of whether the rescue mission succeeds?

5. Why does Miriam Bernstein think Jacob Hausner stayed behind?

Short Essay Questions

1. How have the attackers improved their tactics for the second attack?

2. Once radio contact is established, why doesn't Teddy Laskov ask David Becker if Miriam Bernstein is still alive?

3. What is the purpose of Ibrahim Arif's taunting of Salem Hamadi?

4. Why does Benjamin Dobkin initially direct is call to Athens, and then change his mind?

5. How does Yigael Tekoah become a hero?

6. Why does Salem Hamadi understand that their attempt at getting money by taking the passengers of the Concorde 02 is over whether they win or lose the assault?

7. Why does Ahmed Rish have to wash his face and hands after his interrogation of Deborah Gideon?

8. What motives does Nathan Burg attribute to Jacob Hausner for wanting to stay behind when the aircraft left the mountaintop?

9. Why does Miriam Bernstein believe the role of the scribe is so important?

10. What lesson has Salem Hamadi learned as he watches the way Ahmed Rish deals with the young Ashbals?

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