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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. Who did the Armenian refugee, Soghomon Tehlirian, assassinate in 1921?
(a) Zia Gokalp.
(b) Djemal Pasha.
(c) Talaat Pasha.
(d) Enver Pasha.

2. In what city did Balakian's co-worker Jimmy grow up?
(a) Durham.
(b) Raleigh.
(c) Charleston.
(d) Atlanta.

3. How old was Aunt Gladys when the deportations began?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Eight.

4. Who wrote The Nazi Doctors?
(a) Robert Jay Lifton.
(b) Norman Itzkowitz.
(c) Bernard Lewis.
(d) Heath Lowry.

5. What senator pushed for a 75th anniversary commemoration bill in 1989?
(a) Ted Stevens.
(b) Daniel Anouye.
(c) Robert Byrd.
(d) Robert Dole.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What item, stolen from her family by the Turks, did Balakian's grandmother find in the home of a family in Aleppo?

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

4. How many Turks did the Turkish-American groups claim had died during World War I?

5. In what city was Bishop Balakian buried?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What was Nafina's reaction to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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