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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were the Roman ruins that Balakian wanted to visit while in Lebanon?
(a) Sidon.
(b) Baalbek.
(c) Tyre.
(d) Byblos.

2. What item, stolen from her family by the Turks, did Balakian's grandmother find in the home of a family in Aleppo?
(a) A silver tea set.
(b) A painting.
(c) A wall hanging.
(d) A rug.

3. What did Talaat Pasha predict the economic loss of the Armenians would be when he spoke to Morgenthau?
(a) Two million pounds.
(b) Ten million pounds.
(c) Seven million pounds.
(d) Five million pounds.

4. In what year was the construction of the Der Zor memorial completed?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2001.

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

6. How many Armenian children were in the school photograph taken in Aleppo in 1920?
(a) 70.
(b) 64.
(c) 60.
(d) 54.

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

8. In what German city did Diran Balakian study medicine?
(a) Munich.
(b) Colgne.
(c) Leipzig.
(d) Berlin.

9. Where did Nafina and Dovey bump into each other in New York, several years after the genocide?
(a) Saks.
(b) Filene's.
(c) Lord and Taylor.
(d) Macy's.

10. In what year did Auntie Lu's father arrive in New Jersey?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1903.

11. How old was Aunt Gladys when the deportations began?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Eight.

12. How many katchkars were at the Holy Martyrs Armenian Church in Der Zor?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Twelve.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Syrian government doing when the bones of Der Zor victims were dug up?

2. Who was the only invader to have successfully stormed the massive walls built in Aleppo by Ghazi?

3. In what year did the UN declare genocide a crime against humanity?

4. In what year did Balakian's grandmother give a commemorative speech about the genocide?

5. What does the name Zivart mean in Armenian?

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