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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many children does Nuri Salameh have?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) None.
2. Why does Ahmed Rish slap Jacob Hausner?
(a) The slap is an accident, a violation of his promise to control his anger.
(b) The slap cancels the insult of Jacob Hausner's slapping Ahmed Rish years before.
(c) The slap reminds Jacob Hausner of who is in charge of the situation.
(d) The slap is a signal to the other assailants.
3. What does Benjamin Dobkin deduce from the fact that the radios have been jammed?
(a) They're going to a secret destination.
(b) They're going to be killed.
(c) There will be a news release.
(d) The transmitters are inoperational.
4. What does Teddy Laskov want to know from Miriam Bernstein?
(a) What she plans to say at the conference.
(b) Whether she will travel on the same plane to the conference.
(c) Where he stands with her personally.
(d) If she will oppose his plans for the conference.
5. What does Ahmed Rish say will be his first act upon landing?
(a) Killing Teddy Laskov.
(b) Killing Jacob Hausner.
(c) Killing those who disobey him.
(d) Killing all the Concord 02 passengers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the intruder order Laskov to do?
2. What does the intruding plane inform the Concordes?
3. What last-minute changes are made to increase the security of the Concorde flights?
4. According to Psalms, what did the ancient Babylonians require of the captured Jews?
5. How does Benjamin Dobkin know the terrorists are Palestinians?
Short Essay Questions
1. What compels Nuri Salameh to plant the bomb aboard the aircraft, although he believes it is "a great sin"?
2. A number of characters feel they have failed when the Lear jet comes into the air space of the Concorde. Who feels responsible for their failure to protect the aircraft, and why?
3. What other military group had Teddy Laskov belonged to before he fought for Israel, and why had he left it?
4. Why does Jacob Hausner believe it important to establish the chain of command?
5. How does Benjamin Dobkin react to Jacob Hausner's assumption of leadership within the defenders?
6. Why does Abdel Majid Jabari tell Ibrahim Ali Arif that he is a very self-centered man?
7. What change comes over David Becker as he pilots the endangered aircraft?
8. Why is Dr. George Habash's quotation frightening?
9. How many civilizations overran Iraq in ancient history, and which did the worst destruction?
10. What is the metaphor that Ahmed Rish uses about the joker in the deck?
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