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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Isaac Burg say will kill the defenders if they escape the Ashbals?
(a) Marauding Arabs.
(b) Vultures.
(c) Gypsies.
(d) Their own people.

2. How long does the second attack last?
(a) Thirty-nine minutes.
(b) Seventeen minutes.
(c) All night.
(d) Two hours and fifteen minutes.

3. How do the unarmed women defenders make it sound as though Israeli defenses are stronger?
(a) They bang metal together.
(b) They shout like warriors.
(c) They play war movies in the airplane.
(d) They play tape-recorded sounds of battle.

4. What has changed about Miriam Bernstein?
(a) She doesn't believe in the peace mission any longer.
(b) She feels sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
(c) She is more determined than ever to fight for peace.
(d) She is no longer interested in Teddy Laskov.

5. What language does Benjamin Dobkin speak to the villagers he encounters?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) English.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Aramaic.

6. How many Ashbals participate in the final attack?
(a) Fewer than forty.
(b) More than fifty.
(c) Fewer than twenty.
(d) More than seventy.

7. Why doesn't David Becker get to congratulate Peter Kahn on getting power to the engine?
(a) Kahn drowns in the Euphrates.
(b) Kahn is shot.
(c) Kahn falls from the moving aircraft.
(d) Kahn doesn't survive the ignition of the engine.

8. Who is Saul Ezer?
(a) A U.N. interpreter.
(b) An Ashbal combatant.
(c) A permanent Israeli peace delegate to the U.N.
(d) An Arab representative to the U.N.

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

10. How does Benjamin Dobkin kill Sayid Talib?
(a) With a knife.
(b) With a rock.
(c) With a stolen AK47.
(d) With the pazuzu.

11. What makes Babylon so difficult for outside help to access?
(a) The lack of roads and communication systems.
(b) The language barrier.
(c) The hostile central government.
(d) The flooding Euphrates and the wind.

12. To what Biblical scribe does Miriam Bernstein compare David Becker?
(a) Jeremiah.
(b) Shear-jashub.
(c) Isaiah.
(d) Ezra.

13. How does Teddy Laskov believe Miriam Bernstein will have been changed by her experience?
(a) She will be eager to see him.
(b) She will not have changed.
(c) She will be more committed to peace than ever.
(d) She will be cold and aloof.

14. How does the high command in Jerusalem learn of the location of the downed Concorde 02?
(a) High-altitude infrared photographs.
(b) Radio transmission.
(c) Guessing from military experience.
(d) Reports from a nearby village.

15. Why does Teddy Laskov go into the stratosphere on the way home?
(a) To show off for Miriam Bernstein.
(b) To see the permanence of the earth and stars.
(c) To reassure himself of Israeli air power.
(d) To reassure the defenders of Israeli air power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Isaac Burg explain the defenders' success?

2. How does Abdel Jabari confuse the attackers?

3. What solution does Miriam Bernstein propose?

4. What flammable plant makes the west side of the defenses unassailable?

5. Why do Isaac Burg and Jacob Hausner agree that the time has come to give no orders?

(see the answer keys)

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