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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a hamal?
(a) Turkish police officer.
(b) Dock loader.
(c) Government official.
(d) Ambassador.

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

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

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

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

6. What did Nafina work as in Aleppo, before emigrating to the United States?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A cook.
(c) A maid.
(d) A tailoress.

7. In what Turkish city did Abdul Hamid loyalists carry out atrocities against the Armenians in 1909?
(a) Ani.
(b) Ankara.
(c) Adana.
(d) Constantinople.

8. What does the name Zivart mean in Armenian?
(a) Joy.
(b) Peace.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Love.

9. How many Armenian soldiers defended their country when half a million Persian soldiers invaded in the fifth century?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 75,000.
(c) 60,000.
(d) 25,000.

10. How did Dovey's daughter Margaret die?
(a) Breast cancer.
(b) Brain tumor.
(c) Leukemia.
(d) Skin cancer.

11. Why was Dr. Reyhadi refused admittance into the Balakian's country club?
(a) He was black.
(b) He was Muslim.
(c) He was Jewish.
(d) He was Persian.

12. How many Armenian children were in the school photograph taken in Aleppo in 1920?
(a) 64.
(b) 70.
(c) 60.
(d) 54.

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

14. What job was Balakian working at when he began reading as much as he could about the Armenian genocide, in "Before the Nazis"?
(a) Bike messenger.
(b) Cabbie.
(c) UPS deliver man.
(d) Mail runner.

15. Where did Balakian carry the bones he collected at Der Zor when he went through customs in New York?
(a) His jeans pocket.
(b) His check-in luggage.
(c) A leather shoulder bag.
(d) His coat pocket.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the compensation claim document, how old was Nafina's father when he was killed?

2. What city managed to protect itself from Turkish invaders in the 17th century, thereby stopping the expansion of Ottoman power throughout Western Europe?

3. In what German city did Diran Balakian study medicine?

4. When was the Umayyad Mosque built?

5. In what year was the Treaty of Lausanne signed?

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