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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 treatment did Balakian's grandmother receive after suffering a breakdown because of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
(a) Electroshock therapy.
(b) None.
(c) Medication.
(d) Hospitalization.

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

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

4. In what city was the attorney's office which helped Balakian's grandmother file the compensation claim?
(a) Tenafly.
(b) New York.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) Newark.

5. Where was Balakian giving the poetry reading which his Aunt Anna attended?
(a) Staten Island.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Queens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What senator pushed for a 75th anniversary commemoration bill in 1989?

2. In what year did the UN declare genocide a crime against humanity?

3. What is bakshish?

4. In what year was the memoir Armenian Golgotha reissued (in Armenian)?

5. To what Lebanese city was the Holy See of Cilicia relocated after the Armenian genocide?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Dovey mean when she said that Turkish culture was theft?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. Why did Balakian take the bones from the memorial site at Der Zor?

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