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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Salem Hamadi learn from the officer in the rear area?
(a) Benjamin Dobkin made contact with Jerusalem.
(b) Help is on the way from Jerusalem.
(c) The Jewish Iraqis have helped Benjamin Dobkin.
(d) The Ashbals are in rebellion against Ahmed Rish.

5. What does Jacob Hausner decide never to tell Miriam Bernstein?
(a) That Ahmed Rish knows about her missing husband.
(b) That Teddy Laskov knows about her missing husband.
(c) That he, Jacob Hausner, knows about her missing husband.
(d) That no one knows about her missing husband.

6. Who is Charon?
(a) The guardian of Hell in Greek mythology.
(b) A Hebrew king held captive in Babylon.
(c) The ferryman on the River Styx in Greek mythology.
(d) A king of Babylon in Iraqi mythology.

7. What does Miriam Bernstein think her mother could have written?
(a) A diary.
(b) The Ravensbruck poem.
(c) The family genealogy.
(d) The account of the Holocaust.

8. What does Shear-jashub see as his mission?
(a) To tell the story of the Jews in captivity.
(b) To ensure that a remnant of the Jews survives if Jerusalem is destroyed.
(c) To preserve the ancient records of Babylon.
(d) To teach Iraqis about Judaism.

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

10. Why is the defense of the downed aircraft a battle of attrition?
(a) The attackers have to wait only until the Israelis run out of food.
(b) The attackers have to wait only until the Israelis run out of ammunition.
(c) The defenders have to wait only until the attackers give up.
(d) The defenders have to wait only until help arrives.

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

12. How has Miriam Bernstein put Jacob Hausner in a compromising position?
(a) Jacob Hausner must condemn the woman he loves to death.
(b) Jacob Hausner has converted to her ideas of peaceful negotiation.
(c) Jacob Hausner must appear to be impartial, but he loves her.
(d) Jacob Hausner must show no feeling, but he loves her.

13. What is one theory about the unknown fate of Naomi Haber?
(a) She was shot by the attackers.
(b) She shot Moshe Kaplan to keep him from being captured.
(c) She was taken hostage by the attackers.
(d) She escaped to Ummah.

14. What will happen to Jacob Hausner if he stays concealed after the attackers have passed him?
(a) He will kill Ahmed Rish.
(b) He will survive.
(c) He will be a hero.
(d) He will die.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ariel Weizman want the defenders to do?

2. What does Peter Kahn finally succeed in doing?

3. Why does Teddy Laskov show the colors to the passengers on the C-130s?

4. What language does Benjamin Dobkin speak to the villagers he encounters?

5. What role does Shear-jashub say Jews in Babylon have played in history?

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