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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 movie was showing on the airplane when Balakian returned to the United States?
(a) Ray.
(b) Ali.
(c) Gandhi.
(d) Million Dollar Baby.

2. When did Hitler mention the fact that nobody now remembered the Armenians?
(a) A week before invading Poland.
(b) A week before the invading France.
(c) During the Wansee Conference.
(d) Right before Kristallnacht.

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

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

5. In what year did Armenian refuges settle in Anjar?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. What movie was being played at the Times Square theater when Balakian spoke at the commemoration?

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

3. Where were the Roman ruins that Balakian wanted to visit while in Lebanon?

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

5. Where were the Roman ruins visited by Balakian in Syria, after his visit to Der Zor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did the Armenians form reform movements under Ottoman rule during the 1890s?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did American Ambassador Morgenthau attempt to help the Armenians?

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

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