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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Haigazian University founded?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1950.

2. In what month and year did Balakian's grandmother initiate formal compensation claims against the Turkish government?
(a) June 1920.
(b) April 1918.
(c) May 1921.
(d) May 1919.

3. According to the quote from Ambassador Morgenthau, for how many days did the 18,000 Armenians march, before arriving in Aleppo during an early death march?
(a) Ninety days.
(b) Eighty days.
(c) Sixty days.
(d) Seventy days.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Nazi Doctors?

2. How long had Syria occupied Lebanon when Balakian visited?

3. Whose assassination was gripping the people of Lebanon when Balakian arrived in Beirut in 2005?

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

5. In what decade did Abdul Hamid massacre Armenians?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Balakian question his failure to ask questions as a child when he saw the names of the dead listed on his grandmother's compensation documents?

2. How was the Armenian-Lebanese town of Anjar settled?

3. Why was Balakian surprised the Syrian government suppressed published works about the Armenian genocide?

4. What was the deeper significance of the way in which Dovey's father was killed?

5. How did American Ambassador Morgenthau attempt to help the Armenians?

6. What were the Young Turks like in terms of personality and education?

7. Why did Aunt Anna likely embrace surrealism rather than realism in literature?

8. How has the Turkish government used its influence to prevent honest discussion of the Armenian genocide over the years?

9. How did the Turks use the geography of the land to make it easier to kill Armenians?

10. What was significant about the murder of 250 Armenian intellectuals on the eve of the genocide and what was significant about Bishop Balakian's survival?

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