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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, Babylon, The Ishtar Gate: Chapters 21-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Asher Avidar decide to do in response to the attacker's commands?
(a) Fire on them.
(b) Try to outrun them under cloud cover.
(c) Bargain for a separate peace.
(d) Duck below them.

2. What has secured Babylon's place in history?
(a) Its Ishtar Gate still stands.
(b) Its utter destruction fulfilled Biblical prophecy.
(c) Its hanging gardens have never been duplicated.
(d) It has risen like a phoenix to new glory.

3. Why does Ahmed Rish slap Jacob Hausner?
(a) The slap is an accident, a violation of his promise to control his anger.
(b) The slap is a signal to the other assailants.
(c) The slap reminds Jacob Hausner of who is in charge of the situation.
(d) The slap cancels the insult of Jacob Hausner's slapping Ahmed Rish years before.

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

5. What defense do the defenders copy from Archimedes?
(a) They build catapults.
(b) They use aluminum sheets to reflect the sun.
(c) They all enter the airplane, like the Trojan horse.
(d) They use clothing as slings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Benjamin Dobkin sure Ahmed Rish has chosen the guest house in the ruins as his command center?

2. What does Hausner carry back up the hill to the Concorde?

3. What do the passengers vote to do as the plane is landing?

4. Why does Ahmed Rish have a grudge against Jacob Hausner?

5. What does the intruder order Laskov to do?

(see the answer key)

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