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

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

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

4. In what year did a devastating earthquake hit Armenia?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1990.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the Armenian King Leo V buried?

2. What city managed to protect itself from Turkish invaders in the 17th century, thereby stopping the expansion of Ottoman power throughout Western Europe?

3. Why was Dr. Reyhadi refused admittance into the Balakian's country club?

4. In what year was the Treaty of Lausanne signed?

5. When was the Umayyad Mosque built?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did writing the poem, "The History of Armenia," help Balakian process his new knowledge of his people's history?

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

3. Why were the orders for deportation of all Armenians into the Syrian desert the equivalent of a death sentence?

4. How does genocide denial affect the survivors and their descendants?

5. How does numbness help people who have endured great horrors?

6. Why is Der Zor considered the Armenian equivalent of Auschwitz?

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

8. 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?

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

10. Why was Balakian so affected by his visit to Aleppo, Syria?

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