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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nuri Salameh tell his wife dinner will be late?
(a) He will be late coming home from work.
(b) He has to meet with a friend.
(c) He wants to ride his bicycle.
(d) He has an important errand to do first.

2. Why is Jerusalem unable to track the flight of the Concorde and its assailant over land?
(a) They are flying too high.
(b) They are flying blind.
(c) They are flying too low.
(d) They are too close together.

3. What has Tom Richardson come to get from Teddy Laskov?
(a) Approval for changes being made to the assigned escorts.
(b) A schedule for the peace talks.
(c) Approval of the American participation.
(d) Information about the protective coverage of the Concorde flights.

4. What approaches the Concorde flights unexpectedly?
(a) A military Lear jet.
(b) A civilian Lear jet.
(c) An unidentified airplane.
(d) An earth-to-air missile.

5. Why does Benjamin Dobkin say the time of year is against them?
(a) The heat is oppressive.
(b) The river is in flood stage.
(c) The dust will bury the Concorde.
(d) Babylon is crowded with tourists.

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

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

8. What does Ahmed Rish say will be his first act upon landing?
(a) Killing Jacob Hausner.
(b) Killing those who disobey him.
(c) Killing Teddy Laskov.
(d) Killing all the Concord 02 passengers.

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

10. When does Nuri Salameh believe his fate was determined?
(a) When he was not transferred to Toulouse.
(b) When he realized they were meeting in a dark place.
(c) When he installed the bomb.
(d) When Ahmed Rish first approached him.

11. What is pilot David Becker counting as he flies?
(a) How many flight miles he has left before New York.
(b) How many refuelings the flight will require.
(c) How many more takeoffs and landings he will perform.
(d) How many escorts are in view.

12. In Becker's opinion, why is Hausner's judgment no longer dependable?
(a) Hausner is losing his mind.
(b) Hausner is the target for Ahmed Rish.
(c) Hausner wants to die for his failure to keep them safe.
(d) Hausner is drinking too much.

13. What king is identified on all the bricks in Babylon?
(a) Solomon.
(b) Belshazzar.
(c) Nebuchadnezzar.
(d) David.

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

15. What does Hausner carry back up the hill to the Concorde?
(a) The assailants' water bags.
(b) The weapons of the assailants.
(c) A wounded assailant.
(d) The broken radio of the assailants.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the intruding plane inform the Concordes?

5. Who does Jacob Hausner say is the most important speaker in the group meeting?

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