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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Dovey's daughter Margaret die?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Brain tumor.
(c) Skin cancer.
(d) Breast cancer.

3. Whose assassination was gripping the people of Lebanon when Balakian arrived in Beirut in 2005?
(a) Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
(b) President Walid Jumblatt.
(c) President Michel Aoun.
(d) Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

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

5. According to a 1996 article in the New York Times, what did Turkey lead all other nations in?
(a) The number of imprisoned journalists.
(b) The number of imprisoned politicians.
(c) The number of human rights activists executed.
(d) The number of professors fired for their political activism.

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

7. Where did Balakian carry the bones he collected at Der Zor when he went through customs in New York?
(a) His jeans pocket.
(b) His coat pocket.
(c) His check-in luggage.
(d) A leather shoulder bag.

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. In his discussion of his Aunt Anna's education, what did Balakian say was the percentage of female PhD's in the early 1940s?
(a) 16%.
(b) 21?
(c) 8%.
(d) 13%.

13. Where was Balakian giving the poetry reading which his Aunt Anna attended?
(a) Queens.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) Long Island.

14. How many Armenians out of one group of 18,000 reached the city of Aleppo after their march?
(a) 500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 150.
(d) 400.

15. What was the Black Arrow?
(a) British warship.
(b) German warship.
(c) French warship.
(d) American warship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Nafina and Dovey bump into each other in New York, several years after the genocide?

2. What kind of business did Dovey's family run in the United States?

3. How many Turks did the Turkish-American groups claim had died during World War I?

4. What is a hamal?

5. Where was the Armenian King Leo V buried?

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