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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: Commemoration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of Mt. Ararat?
(a) It is where Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son.
(b) It is where Noah's Ark reportedly landed.
(c) It is where the Ten Commandments were handed down.
(d) It is where the Armenian people accepted Christianity.

2. Why did Balakian not like the works of Anais Nin, who was friends with his aunt?
(a) He found her works too difficult to understand.
(b) He found her works too realistic.
(c) He found her works self-indulgent.
(d) He found her works too ironic.

3. What movie was being played at the Times Square theater when Balakian spoke at the commemoration?
(a) The Killing Fields.
(b) Schindler's List.
(c) Apocalpyse Now.
(d) Sophie's Choice.

4. Until what year were Christians forbidden to serve in the Ottoman army?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1908.

5. Who signed the documents outlining the Turkish plan for the extermination of the Armenian nation?
(a) Abdul Hamid.
(b) Enver Pasha.
(c) Djemal Pasha.
(d) Talaat Pasha.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?

2. Approximately how many Armenians were slaughtered in Diarbekir in 1915?

3. In what decade did Abdul Hamid massacre Armenians?

4. About how many Armenians were sent on the forced marches into the desert during the first six months of the genocide?

5. In what year was the term genocide coined?

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