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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 believe Ahmed Rish will do with all hostages?
(a) Torture them for information.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Lie about releasing them.
(d) Send them home with misinformation.

2. How does Benjamin Dobkin know the terrorists are Palestinians?
(a) The Lear jet has Palestinian markings.
(b) The Palestinian group has claimed responsibility.
(c) Jacob Hausner recognizes the voice of Ahmed Rish.
(d) The Palestinian peace representatives recognize the voice of Ahmed Rish.

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

4. Why does the guarantee not apply to the Arab members of the peace delegation?
(a) They are too important as informants.
(b) They are too valuable as hostages.
(c) As Muslims, they can expect no mercy for betraying their countrymen.
(d) They will automatically be freed.

5. Who has mentored Miriam Bernstein's career in government?
(a) Isaac Burg.
(b) Itzhak Talman.
(c) Teddy Laskov.
(d) Golda Meir.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will man the operation against the Lod airport?

2. What is significant about the room where Ahmed Rish interviews Jacob Hausner and Benjamin Dobkin?

3. What does Jacob Hausner assign the foreign ministers to do with the clothing in suitcases?

4. Where is Miriam Bernstein's husband, Yosef?

5. What does Nuri Salameh worry might give him away to the workers passing under the Concorde?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What compels Nuri Salameh to plant the bomb aboard the aircraft, although he believes it is "a great sin"?

4. Why does Jacob Hausner believe it important to establish the chain of command?

5. Why is Golda Meir's quotation inspiring?

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

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

8. Why is Dr. George Habash's quotation frightening?

9. A number of characters feel they have failed when the Lear jet comes into the air space of the Concorde. Who feels responsible for their failure to protect the aircraft, and why?

10. As an Algerian in France, Nuri Salameh is a "stranger in a strange land." Do you think that situation makes a difference in his decision to obey Ahmed Rish and plant the bomb on the aircraft?

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