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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 visited by Balakian in Syria, after his visit to Der Zor?
(a) Palymra.
(b) Aleppo.
(c) Damascus.
(d) Zenobia.

2. What did Nafina work as in Aleppo, before emigrating to the United States?
(a) A cook.
(b) A tailoress.
(c) A maid.
(d) A teacher.

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

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

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

6. What is involved in the torture method called bastinado?
(a) Hot pincers.
(b) Pulling out fingernails.
(c) Beating the soles of the feet.
(d) Waterboarding.

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

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

9. In what year were Turkish government archives from the genocide period first opened?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1989.

10. What is the traditional day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide?
(a) April 24.
(b) April 18.
(c) April 30.
(d) May 24.

11. What did the U.S. House of Representatives do in May 1996 as a protest against Turkish denials of the genocide?
(a) They cut aid to Turkey.
(b) They passed a resolution.
(c) They recalled the U.S. Ambassdor.
(d) They refused to sell military planes to Turkey.

12. About how many Armenians were sent on the forced marches into the desert during the first six months of the genocide?
(a) 1.5 million.
(b) 1.2 million.
(c) 1.8 million.
(d) 800,000.

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

14. What happened when 2,000 starving Armenian women and children stumbled through Aleppo, Syria in 1915?
(a) The Turkish officers ordered the Armenians removed.
(b) The Turkish officers attacked local Syrians.
(c) The local Syrians attacked Turkish officers.
(d) The local Syrians joined in attacking the Armenians.

15. Who did the Armenian refugee, Soghomon Tehlirian, assassinate in 1921?
(a) Zia Gokalp.
(b) Enver Pasha.
(c) Djemal Pasha.
(d) Talaat Pasha.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Armenian children were in the school photograph taken in Aleppo in 1920?

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

3. Until what year were Christians forbidden to serve in the Ottoman army?

4. Who signed the documents outlining the Turkish plan for the extermination of the Armenian nation?

5. In what year was the term genocide coined?

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