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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 think all their cleverness and strength has accomplished?
(a) Prolonged their suffering.
(b) Saved them from the attackers.
(c) Bought time for help to arrive.
(d) Earned a place in history books.

2. What connection does Benjamin Dobkin, like most Jews, have with Babylon?
(a) He had sworn never to visit there.
(b) His ancestors had probably lived there.
(c) He had visited as a tourist.
(d) He had made a religious pilgrimage there.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Teddy Laskov go into the stratosphere on the way home?

2. What has David Becker done throughout the standoff?

3. Who is Saul Ezer?

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

5. How does Teddy Laskov believe Miriam Bernstein will have been changed by her experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advantages does the Sherji, the hot desert wind, give to the attackers?

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

3. What motives does Nathan Burg attribute to Jacob Hausner for wanting to stay behind when the aircraft left the mountaintop?

4. Why does Benjamin Dobkin have a sense of deja vu when he enters by the Ishtar Gate?

5. Why does Nathan Burg veto the idea of attempting an escape at night?

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

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

8. What lesson has Salem Hamadi learned as he watches the way Ahmed Rish deals with the young Ashbals?

9. Which countries are now involved in the events in Babylon?

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

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