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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 Armenian refuges settle in Anjar?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1939.

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

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

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

5. How many Turks did the Turkish-American groups claim had died during World War I?
(a) 1.5 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 2.5 million.

6. In what part of Syria is Der Zor located?
(a) Southern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Northern.
(d) Western.

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

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

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

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

11. When did the first Armenian genocide resolution come before the U.S. Congress?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1988.

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

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

14. 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 rug.
(c) A wall hanging.
(d) A silver tea set.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the U.S. House of Representatives do in May 1996 as a protest against Turkish denials of the genocide?

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

4. How many Armenian soldiers defended their country when half a million Persian soldiers invaded in the fifth century?

5. In what year was the construction of the Der Zor memorial completed?

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