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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. How many Armenians out of one group of 18,000 reached the city of Aleppo after their march?
(a) 400.
(b) 500.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 150.

2. Where did Nafina and Dovey bump into each other in New York, several years after the genocide?
(a) Macy's.
(b) Lord and Taylor.
(c) Filene's.
(d) Saks.

3. According to the compensation claim document, how old was Nafina's father when he was killed?
(a) 70.
(b) 58.
(c) 75.
(d) 65.

4. To what Lebanese city was the Holy See of Cilicia relocated after the Armenian genocide?
(a) Tripoli.
(b) Tyre.
(c) Sidon.
(d) Antelias.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age were young boys forcibly conscripted as Janissaries for the Ottoman Empire?

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

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

4. What is a hamal?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 was the Armenian-Lebanese town of Anjar settled?

10. How did the Turks use the geography of the land to make it easier to kill Armenians?

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