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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What offense is committed by Miriam Bernstein?
(a) Insubordination.
(b) Sleeping on guard duty.
(c) Inciting to mutiny.
(d) Refusing to bear arms.

2. What does Jacob Hausner say will be their first action if they are overrun?
(a) Surrender.
(b) Shoot Ahmed Rish.
(c) Shoot the wounded.
(d) Rescue the wounded.

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

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

5. How is the second onslaught by the attackers better done than the first?
(a) They are smarter and faster.
(b) They are more knowledgeable.
(c) They are quicker and quieter.
(d) They are more prepared to fight.

6. Why does Ahmed Rish need to keep the defenders alive?
(a) Ahmed Rish wants to torture the defenders.
(b) Ahmed Rish does not want to be tried for murder.
(c) The defenders can testify that Ahmed Rish treated them fairly.
(d) Without hostages, Ahmed Rish has no power to negotiate.

7. Why does Hausner believe many of the defenders will not stand and fight?
(a) They prefer to die.
(b) They expect to be rescued.
(c) They are conspirators.
(d) They are not soldiers.

8. Why do Isaac Burg and Jacob Hausner agree that the time has come to give no orders?
(a) People no longer trust their leadership.
(b) People would disobey and scatter.
(c) The leaders are not sure what's best to do.
(d) Individual survival instincts will take over.

9. What does Jacob Hausner encourage Moshe Kaplan to do?
(a) Take an outpost position to warn the others.
(b) Attempt an escape down the west side.
(c) Collect ammunition for Naomi Haber.
(d) Attempt to shoot Ahmed Rish.

10. To what has Ahmed Rish's fighting force been reduced at the end?
(a) Fewer than two dozen of the original one hundred and fifty.
(b) Fewer than one hundred of the original two hundred.
(c) Fewer than forty of the original one hundred and fifty.
(d) Fewer than one hundred and fifty of the original five hundred.

11. What keeps Salem Hamadi from murdering Ahmed Rish?
(a) Ahmed Rish inspires Salem Hamadi.
(b) Ahmed Rish is a better fighter than Salem Hamadi.
(c) Ahmed Rish is a hero to the Palestinian people.
(d) Ahmed Rish is Salem Hamadi's military superior.

12. What two options does Jacob Hausner reject?
(a) Hand-to-hand combat and surrender.
(b) Attacking and standing fast.
(c) Escaping and attacking.
(d) Retreat and surrender.

13. What does Ahmed Rish think is the advantage the gods have sent the attackers?
(a) The quiet.
(b) The darkness.
(c) The wind.
(d) The heat.

14. What has David Becker done throughout the standoff?
(a) Tended the wounded.
(b) Fired on the attackers.
(c) Worked on the generator.
(d) Kept a log.

15. Why doesn't Joshua Giddel attack the guest house that is the attackers' headquarters?
(a) He wants to get to the hill to help the defenders.
(b) He suspects Israeli captives are alive inside.
(c) He can't find it.
(d) He doesn't know how well-armed the building is.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the attackers makes his way onto the Concorde before it falls from the ledge?

2. What will happen to Jacob Hausner if he stays concealed after the attackers have passed him?

3. What does Salem Hamadi learn from the officer in the rear area?

4. What does Jacob Hausner say is more awful than the desolation of Babylon when he looks at the picture of Ahmed Rish?

5. Why does John McClure think Tom Richardson speaks Arabic?

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