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

2. Why does Miriam Bernstein try to leave the moving aircraft?
(a) She wants to greet Teddy Laskov.
(b) She wants to stay behind with the wounded.
(c) She wants to find Benjamin Dobkin.
(d) She wants to stay behind with Jacob Hausner.

3. What will happen to Ahmed Rish and Salem Hamadi if the attack fails?
(a) They will be tried in an international court.
(b) They will be forced to commit suicide.
(c) They will be tried in an Israeli court.
(d) They will be killed by their own men or other Palestinians.

4. What does Moshe Kaplan's sacrifice accomplish?
(a) Nothing; it was a waste.
(b) Killed the entire invading group.
(c) Killed Ahmed Rish.
(d) Killed attackers and warned the defenders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Charon?

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

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

4. How many of Jacob Hausner's security team were killed?

5. To what has Ahmed Rish's fighting force been reduced at the end?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ahmed Rish have to wash his face and hands after his interrogation of Deborah Gideon?

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

3. How does Yigael Tekoah become a hero?

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

5. Why does Jacob Hausner think it is better for Miriam Bernstein to cry and howl when she is suffering pain and grief?

6. Why is Salim Tayid able to survive when none of the other Ashbals attacking the west bank do?

7. Why does Miriam Bernstein believe that Jacob Hausner wanted to stay behind?

8. How and when was Jeremiah's prophecy fulfilled that said, "The sea shall come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof"?

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

10. What does Major Bartok find surprising about Nathan Burg's report of the incident?

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