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

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

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

4. When did the deportations of Armenians into the Syrian desert begin?
(a) Summer 1916.
(b) Fall 1914.
(c) Spring 1915.
(d) Spring 1916.

5. In what nation is Nagorno-Karabagh currently located?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Turkmenistan.
(c) Azerbaijan.
(d) Uzbekistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did Abdul Hamid massacre Armenians?

2. In what year were Turkish government archives from the genocide period first opened?

3. Who signed the documents outlining the Turkish plan for the extermination of the Armenian nation?

4. In what city did Balakian's co-worker Jimmy grow up?

5. According to a 1996 article in the New York Times, what did Turkey lead all other nations in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Balakian eventually come to see his family's silence about the genocide as a gift?

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

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

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

5. How has Turkey's denial of the genocide affected its development as a modern nation?

6. How did Balakian's aunts justify the family's inability to talk about the genocide when he was a child?

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

8. According to Aunt Gladys, why did the Armenians in America never talk about the genocide?

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

10. What was significant about Nafina's attempt to seek compensation from the Turkish government by filing documents in the United States?

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