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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Ivy League university was involved in many of the disputes about Turkish denial of the genocide?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Brown.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

2. Approximately how many Armenian women were forced to dance in the Diarbekir square when Dovey saw them?
(a) 10 to 15.
(b) 15 to 20.
(c) 25 to 30.
(d) 20 to 25.

3. In what year was the term genocide coined?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1936.

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

5. What job was Balakian working at when he began reading as much as he could about the Armenian genocide, in "Before the Nazis"?
(a) Cabbie.
(b) UPS deliver man.
(c) Mail runner.
(d) Bike messenger.

6. 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?
(a) Ninety days.
(b) Eighty days.
(c) Sixty days.
(d) Seventy days.

7. In what city was Bishop Balakian buried?
(a) Marseilles.
(b) Paris.
(c) Avignon.
(d) Vienna.

8. In what Turkish city did Abdul Hamid loyalists carry out atrocities against the Armenians in 1909?
(a) Constantinople.
(b) Ani.
(c) Ankara.
(d) Adana.

9. In what year was the memoir Armenian Golgotha reissued (in Armenian)?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1972.

10. In what nation is Nagorno-Karabagh currently located?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Uzbekistan.
(c) Turkmenistan.
(d) Azerbaijan.

11. What is bakshish?
(a) A bribe.
(b) A legal document.
(c) An army.
(d) A salesperson.

12. When did Hitler mention the fact that nobody now remembered the Armenians?
(a) Right before Kristallnacht.
(b) During the Wansee Conference.
(c) A week before invading Poland.
(d) A week before the invading France.

13. In what year did Balakian's grandmother give a commemorative speech about the genocide?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1939.

14. To what Lebanese city was the Holy See of Cilicia relocated after the Armenian genocide?
(a) Sidon.
(b) Tyre.
(c) Tripoli.
(d) Antelias.

15. In what city did Balakian's co-worker Jimmy grow up?
(a) Charleston.
(b) Durham.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Raleigh.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were Turkish government archives from the genocide period first opened?

2. When did the deportations of Armenians into the Syrian desert begin?

3. In what year was Morgenthau appointed ambassador to Turkey?

4. According to a 1996 article in the New York Times, what did Turkey lead all other nations in?

5. What did Talaat Pasha predict the economic loss of the Armenians would be when he spoke to Morgenthau?

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