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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. Where were the Roman ruins that Balakian wanted to visit while in Lebanon?
(a) Baalbek.
(b) Byblos.
(c) Sidon.
(d) Tyre.

2. Who was Zia Gokalp?
(a) The Turkish head of state.
(b) The Turkish Foreign Minister.
(c) The Turkish military commander.
(d) The Turkish propadandist.

3. In what year was the Treaty of Lausanne signed?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1925.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how many Armenians were sent on the forced marches into the desert during the first six months of the genocide?

3. In what decade did Abdul Hamid massacre Armenians?

4. What treatment did Balakian's grandmother receive after suffering a breakdown because of the attack on Pearl Harbor?

5. During the death march Dovey was on, what did the Armenians eat when they were near the Roman ruins at Ourfa?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. How did Balakian feel about claims that the Turkish denials fall under free speech?

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

9. What was the deeper significance of the 500 pairs of shoes stolen by the Turks from Balakian's grandfather?

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

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