View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what has Ahmed Rish's fighting force been reduced at the end?
(a) Fewer than one hundred of the original two hundred.
(b) Fewer than forty of the original one hundred and fifty.
(c) Fewer than two dozen of the original one hundred and fifty.
(d) Fewer than one hundred and fifty of the original five hundred.

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

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

4. What fortunate excess surprises David Becker and Jacob Hausner?
(a) There is more ammunition than they had calculated.
(b) There is more fuel than they had calculated.
(c) There is more food than they had calculated.
(d) There are fewer attackers than they had calculated.

5. Why does Teddy Laskov believe Ahmed Rish has not called Jerusalem with demands?
(a) The peace delegation has all been killed.
(b) Ahmed Rish does not have the peace delegation under control.
(c) Ahmed Rish has been killed.
(d) Ahmed Rish is trying to increase suspense and desperation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the attackers continue forward with Israeli forces coming up behind them?

2. How does Ahmed Rish manage to wound Jacob Hausner?

3. What does Moshe Kaplan's sacrifice accomplish?

4. What does Major Bartok find ironic about Isaac Burg's account of the incident?

5. What does Jacob Hausner encourage Moshe Kaplan to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Benjamin Dobkin initially direct is call to Athens, and then change his mind?

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

6. How does Yigael Tekoah become a hero?

7. 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"?

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

9. To what do the prophet Jeremiah - and the author, Nelson DeMille - credit the successful freeing of the Babylonian captives?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,134 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample