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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the command post/observation post?
(a) Ammunition is stored there.
(b) Runners can bring information and carry away orders.
(c) Fighters can rally around it.
(d) The flag there encourages the fighters.

2. How do the terrorists kill Nuri Salameh?
(a) They drown him.
(b) They poison him.
(c) They stab him.
(d) They shoot him.

3. What is significant about the room where Ahmed Rish interviews Jacob Hausner and Benjamin Dobkin?
(a) It is the room where Isaiah saw the writing on the wall.
(b) It is the room where Shear-jashub saw the writing on the wall.
(c) It is the room where Belshazzar saw the writing on the wall.
(d) It is the room where Nebuchadnezzar saw the writing on the wall.

4. What does Jacob Hausner assign the foreign ministers to do with the clothing in suitcases?
(a) Cover their heads.
(b) Make dummies.
(c) Make slings.
(d) Make bandages.

5. Who will man the operation against the Lod airport?
(a) Al-Qaeda operatives.
(b) Newly recruited members of the Palestinian Auxiliary Corps.
(c) Palestinian orphans from Iraq.
(d) Left-behind members of the Palestinian Auxiliary Corps.

6. 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.

7. Who has mentored Miriam Bernstein's career in government?
(a) Itzhak Talman.
(b) Isaac Burg.
(c) Golda Meir.
(d) Teddy Laskov.

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

9. Why is the escort plane flown by Teddy Lasksov unable to fire on the intruder?
(a) It is carrying explosives.
(b) It is carrying hostages.
(c) It is too close to the Concordes.
(d) It maneuvers too quickly.

10. What does Teddy Laskov want to know from Miriam Bernstein?
(a) If she will oppose his plans for the conference.
(b) What she plans to say at the conference.
(c) Where he stands with her personally.
(d) Whether she will travel on the same plane to the conference.

11. What does Ahmed Rish say are the two possibilities for Jews in Babylon?
(a) Return home or remain behind.
(b) Infinite sadness or a miracle.
(c) Conquer or die.
(d) Surrender or death.

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

13. What nationality is Nuri Salameh and the other workers who are complicit in sabotaging the aircraft?
(a) French.
(b) Arabian.
(c) Algerian.
(d) Palestinian.

14. Why is Miriam Bernstein excited about what the day will bring?
(a) She is meeting her old friend Abdel Majid Jabari.
(b) She is looking forward to a good breakfast.
(c) She has fallen in love with Teddy Laskov.
(d) An Arab-Israeli peace conference is beginning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the intruder order Laskov to do?

2. What does Nuri Salameh worry about in Algeria?

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

4. To whom had the hill above the airport belonged before the Six-Day War?

5. Why does Benjamin Dobkin say the time of year is against them?

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