Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir Test | Final Test - Medium

Peter Balakian
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Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir Test | Final Test - Medium

Peter Balakian
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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. Who was the only invader to have successfully stormed the massive walls built in Aleppo by Ghazi?
(a) Tamerlane.
(b) Saladin.
(c) Kublai Khan.
(d) Genghis Khan.

2. What did Balakian say best represented his family's assimilation in American society?
(a) His family's education.
(b) His family's life in suburbia.
(c) His father's medical practice.
(d) His family's country club membership.

3. In what year was Nersesian College founded?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1723.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1823.

4. What was the Syrian government doing when the bones of Der Zor victims were dug up?
(a) Probing for oil.
(b) Constructing a highway.
(c) Probing for natural gas.
(d) Planning a new city.

5. How many Turks did the Turkish-American groups claim had died during World War I?
(a) 1.5 million.
(b) 2.5 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 2 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the memoir Armenian Golgotha reissued (in Armenian)?

2. What item, stolen from her family by the Turks, did Balakian's grandmother find in the home of a family in Aleppo?

3. In what city was the attorney's office which helped Balakian's grandmother file the compensation claim?

4. Along with Constantinople and Baku, what was considered one of the three cosmopolitan centers of Armenian culture?

5. According to the quote from Ambassador Morgenthau, for how many days did the 18,000 Armenians march, before arriving in Aleppo during an early death march?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was significant about Nafina's attempt to seek compensation from the Turkish government by filing documents in the United States?

2. What did Dovey mean when she said that Turkish culture was theft?

3. Why did Aunt Anna likely embrace surrealism rather than realism in literature?

4. Why did Balakian take the bones from the memorial site at Der Zor?

5. Why were the orders for deportation of all Armenians into the Syrian desert the equivalent of a death sentence?

6. How did writing the poem, "The History of Armenia," help Balakian process his new knowledge of his people's history?

7. How did Balakian's aunts justify the family's inability to talk about the genocide when he was a child?

8. How did Balakian feel about claims that the Turkish denials fall under free speech?

9. How has the Turkish government used its influence to prevent honest discussion of the Armenian genocide over the years?

10. How did the atmosphere of Syria differ from that of Lebanon when Balakian visited in 2005?

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