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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, Babylon, The Watchtowers: Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Hamseen?
(a) A Jewish holiday.
(b) An Israeli greeting.
(c) The hot desert wind.
(d) The black and white head scarves worn by Palestinians.

2. What do the passengers vote to do as the plane is landing?
(a) Surrender upon landing.
(b) Fight on the ground.
(c) Request a modification in terms.
(d) Fight in the air.

3. Why is Abdel Majid Jabari hated by many Palestinians?
(a) He is a general who has fought against Palestine.
(b) He is a failed Palestinian operative.
(c) He is a spy who has betrayed Palestinian activists.
(d) He is a Palestinian who has made a separate peace with Israel.

4. What does Benjamin Dobkin carry with him to take his own life if he is captured?
(a) Cyanide.
(b) Digitalis.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hausner say he mistrusts the peace delegation?

2. What does Jacob Hausner learn from the explosion of Concorde 01?

3. What is significant about the room where Ahmed Rish interviews Jacob Hausner and Benjamin Dobkin?

4. What thought comforts David Becker during the terrifying flight?

5. Why does Jacob Hausner get angry with Naomi Haber?

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