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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was the Treaty of Lausanne signed?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1925.

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

4. Who was Zia Gokalp?
(a) The Turkish Foreign Minister.
(b) The Turkish military commander.
(c) The Turkish propadandist.
(d) The Turkish head of state.

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

6. During the death march Dovey was on, what did the Armenians eat when they were near the Roman ruins at Ourfa?
(a) Grasshoppers.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Locusts.
(d) Beetles.

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

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

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

10. When was the Umayyad Mosque built?
(a) Early seventh century.
(b) Early ninth century.
(c) Early eighth century.
(d) Late eighth century.

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

12. In what year was Morgenthau appointed ambassador to Turkey?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1915.

13. Until what year were Christians forbidden to serve in the Ottoman army?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1908.

14. How was Dovey related to Balakian's grandmother?
(a) Dovey was Nafina's niece.
(b) Dovey was Nafina's second cousin.
(c) They were sisters.
(d) They were cousins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age were young boys forcibly conscripted as Janissaries for the Ottoman Empire?

2. How many Armenians out of one group of 18,000 reached the city of Aleppo after their march?

3. In what year was Haigazian University founded?

4. How many katchkars were at the Holy Martyrs Armenian Church in Der Zor?

5. In what nation is Nagorno-Karabagh currently located?

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