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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. What is the problem when Benjamin Dobkin makes telephone contact with Jerusalem?
(a) Someone needs to verify that it is his voice.
(b) Someone needs to verify his calling code.
(c) Someone needs to verify that he is actually in Babylon.
(d) Someone needs to verify that he has authorization to call.

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

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

4. What information does Chaim Mazar give the joint chiefs?
(a) The identity of the spy, Miriam Bernstein.
(b) The identity of the spy, Tom Richardson.
(c) The identity of the spy, Jacob Hausner.
(d) The identity of the spy, John McClure.

5. Why does Teddy Laskov forbid David Becker to move the Concorde?
(a) Teddy Laskov wants to be the one to rescue the defenders.
(b) Teddy Laskov thinks the ship will explode.
(c) Teddy Laskov believes they will all be killed.
(d) Teddy Laskov believes they will kill the attackers he wants to interrogate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the foreign minister think Jacob Hausner stayed behind?

3. How do the unarmed women defenders make it sound as though Israeli defenses are stronger?

4. What connection does Benjamin Dobkin, like most Jews, have with Babylon?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What incentives do the young Ashbal fighters have that they did not have during the first attack?

2. What does Naomi Haber do that leads to the death of Nathan Brin?

3. What is the purpose of Ibrahim Arif's taunting of Salem Hamadi?

4. To what does Major Bartok eventually attribute the successful defense of Concorde 02?

5. Why does Miriam Bernstein believe the role of the scribe is so important?

6. How does the guard recognize that Benjamin Dobkin is not an Ashbal?

7. Who suffered disproportionately during the captivity, and why?

8. Why does Dr. Al-Thanni remind Joshua Giddel of Archimedes?

9. Why do Jacob Hausner and Nathan Burg conclude that the conduct of a war is too important to be left to politicians?

10. Why does Dr. Al-Thanni recommend that Joshua Giddel make no attempt to rescue Benjamin Dobkin?

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