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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, Babylon, The Ishtar Gate: Chapters 25-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ritual proceeding does the rabbi call a "strange custom"?
(a) Covering the faces of the dead.
(b) Refusing to bury nonbelievers.
(c) Waiting until after the Sabbath to bury the dead.
(d) Saying prayers on behalf of the dead.

2. What did Jacob Hausner bring with him that impresses Benjamin Dobkin?
(a) A psychological profile and identikit on Ahmed Rish.
(b) An extra generator.
(c) Cyanide pellets.
(d) Ammunition.

3. What do the joint chiefs in Jerusalem decide to do?
(a) Give up the idea of a reconnaissance flight.
(b) Request an Iraqi reconnaissance flight.
(c) Send an Israeli reconnaissance flight.
(d) Ask for an American reconnaissance flight.

4. What does Benjamin Dobkin deduce from the fact that the radios have been jammed?
(a) There will be a news release.
(b) They're going to a secret destination.
(c) The transmitters are inoperational.
(d) They're going to be killed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Miriam Bernstein's husband, Yosef?

2. What does Nuri Salameh worry might give him away to the workers passing under the Concorde?

3. What does Teddy Laskov want to know from Miriam Bernstein?

4. How does the wind help the attackers?

5. What does the intruding plane inform the Concordes?

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