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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 Salem Hamadi learn from the officer in the rear area?
(a) Help is on the way from Jerusalem.
(b) The Ashbals are in rebellion against Ahmed Rish.
(c) The Jewish Iraqis have helped Benjamin Dobkin.
(d) Benjamin Dobkin made contact with Jerusalem.

2. How does Isaac Burg explain the defenders' success?
(a) Self-defense is reflexive.
(b) They had well-trained combatants to teach them.
(c) They fought to defend peace as mothers defend cubs.
(d) They were fighting to defend life and limb.

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

4. Who does Isaac Burg say will kill the defenders if they escape the Ashbals?
(a) Their own people.
(b) Vultures.
(c) Marauding Arabs.
(d) Gypsies.

5. Who is Charon?
(a) A Hebrew king held captive in Babylon.
(b) The ferryman on the River Styx in Greek mythology.
(c) A king of Babylon in Iraqi mythology.
(d) The guardian of Hell in Greek mythology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Teddy Laskov show the colors to the passengers on the C-130s?

2. What does Miriam Bernstein think her mother could have written?

3. How many Ashbals participate in the final attack?

4. What connection does Benjamin Dobkin, like most Jews, have with Babylon?

5. What does Jacob Hausner think all their cleverness and strength has accomplished?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How have the attackers improved their tactics for the second attack?

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

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

7. To what does Major Bartok eventually attribute the successful defense of Concorde 02?

8. How does the guard recognize that Benjamin Dobkin is not an Ashbal?

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

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

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