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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. Why does Ahmed Rish have a grudge against Jacob Hausner?
(a) Jacob Hausner broadcast Ahmed Rish's description.
(b) Jacob Hausner humiliated Ahmed Rish by striking him under interrogation.
(c) Jacob Hausner killed Ahmed Rish's family.
(d) Jacob Hausner tortured Ahmed Rish during interrogation.

2. What do the passengers vote to do as the plane is landing?
(a) Fight on the ground.
(b) Fight in the air.
(c) Request a modification in terms.
(d) Surrender upon landing.

3. Where is Miriam Bernstein's husband, Yosef?
(a) At home in bed in Jerusalem.
(b) In a prison camp in Libya.
(c) Missing and presumed dead in Syria.
(d) Preparing for the conference in New York.

4. What does Benjamin Dobkin carry with him to take his own life if he is captured?
(a) Cyanide.
(b) A gun.
(c) Digitalis.
(d) A knife.

5. What does Asher Avidar decide to do in response to the attacker's commands?
(a) Try to outrun them under cloud cover.
(b) Fire on them.
(c) Duck below them.
(d) Bargain for a separate peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Benjamin Dobkin sure Ahmed Rish has chosen the guest house in the ruins as his command center?

2. What is the purpose of the command post/observation post?

3. What last-minute changes are made to increase the security of the Concorde flights?

4. Who is a last-minute addition to the flight on Concorde 01?

5. Why does the rabbi tell Jacob Hausner the religious observances are important?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Abdel Majid Jabari's position in the Knesset tell us about the Jewish leadership?

2. Why do you think Tom Richardson reacts with such great emotion when Teddy Laskov tells him that he has to be careful in giving out the information about the protection being given for the Concordes?

3. What compels the stay-behind members of the Palestinian Auxiliary Corps to shell the Lod Airport?

4. How does Nathan Brin deduce the power source for the radio-controlled bomb?

5. As Benjamin Dobkin watches the attackers advance, he thinks that he would give them a low grade on tactics. What do they do wrong?

6. What other military group had Teddy Laskov belonged to before he fought for Israel, and why had he left it?

7. Why is Teddy Laskov unsure of his standing with Miriam Bernstein?

8. Why does Jacob Hausner say that he will help find medications that can kill a person if taken in overdose for Benjamin Dobkin?

9. What is the metaphor that Ahmed Rish uses about the joker in the deck?

10. Why does Abdel Majid Jabari tell Ibrahim Ali Arif that he is a very self-centered man?

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