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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 other group suffered disproportionate losses?
(a) The El Al crew.
(b) The peace delegation.
(c) The interpreters and aides.
(d) The women.

2. What does Ahmed Rish think is the advantage the gods have sent the attackers?
(a) The quiet.
(b) The wind.
(c) The darkness.
(d) The heat.

3. Who does the report say freed the defenders?
(a) They freed themselves.
(b) The Israelis freed them.
(c) The Iraqi Jews freed them.
(d) Teddy Laskov freed them.

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

5. What is one theory about the unknown fate of Naomi Haber?
(a) She was taken hostage by the attackers.
(b) She was shot by the attackers.
(c) She escaped to Ummah.
(d) She shot Moshe Kaplan to keep him from being captured.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ariel Weizman want the defenders to do?

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

3. Why does John McClure think Tom Richardson speaks Arabic?

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

5. How many of Jacob Hausner's security team were killed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Dr. Al-Thanni recommend that Joshua Giddel make no attempt to rescue Benjamin Dobkin?

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

7. How does Yigael Tekoah become a hero?

8. Why does Miriam Bernstein believe the role of the scribe is so important?

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

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

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