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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why doesn't David Becker get to congratulate Peter Kahn on getting power to the engine?
(a) Kahn doesn't survive the ignition of the engine.
(b) Kahn is shot.
(c) Kahn falls from the moving aircraft.
(d) Kahn drowns in the Euphrates.

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

4. How has Miriam Bernstein put Jacob Hausner in a compromising position?
(a) Jacob Hausner must appear to be impartial, but he loves her.
(b) Jacob Hausner must condemn the woman he loves to death.
(c) Jacob Hausner has converted to her ideas of peaceful negotiation.
(d) Jacob Hausner must show no feeling, but he loves her.

5. What does Samuel Bartok offer to do regardless of whether the rescue mission succeeds?
(a) Kill the remaining Ashbals.
(b) Hunt down and kill Ahmed Rish.
(c) Tell the story of what happened in Babylon.
(d) Take the Iraqi Jews home to Israel.

6. What does Ariel Weizman want the defenders to do?
(a) Wait for word from Jerusalem.
(b) Escape down the west bank and cross the Euphrates.
(c) Fight to the death.
(d) Form a Masada pact and commit suicide.

7. What language does Benjamin Dobkin speak to the villagers he encounters?
(a) Arabic.
(b) English.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Aramaic.

8. What does Jacob Hausner order Miriam Bernstein to do before the final battle?
(a) Get into the Concorde.
(b) Tell him goodbye.
(c) Tend the wounded.
(d) Learn to shoot.

9. 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 are fewer attackers than they had calculated.
(d) There is more food than they had calculated.

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

11. Why is Saul Ezer encouraged by the delegates in New York?
(a) It is the most congenial group he has seen.
(b) It is the most varied group he has seen.
(c) It is the most intelligent group he has seen.
(d) It is the most well-briefed group he has seen.

12. Why do Isaac Burg and Jacob Hausner agree that the time has come to give no orders?
(a) The leaders are not sure what's best to do.
(b) People would disobey and scatter.
(c) People no longer trust their leadership.
(d) Individual survival instincts will take over.

13. How does Miriam Bernstein respond to Teddy Laskov's message?
(a) She asks him to wait for her.
(b) She faints.
(c) She bursts into tears.
(d) She doesn't respond.

14. Who is Saul Ezer?
(a) A U.N. interpreter.
(b) A permanent Israeli peace delegate to the U.N.
(c) An Ashbal combatant.
(d) An Arab representative to the U.N.

15. Why does the foreign minister think Jacob Hausner stayed behind?
(a) To capture Ahmed Rish.
(b) For the honor of the sacrifice.
(c) For the sake of the others.
(d) To avoid facing an inquiry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Babylon so difficult for outside help to access?

2. What does Hausner believe the Jews should learn from the fate of Jews in Europe?

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

4. How does Benjamin Dobkin kill Sayid Talib?

5. How does Ibrahim Arif support the defense effort?

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