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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. During the death march Dovey was on, what did the Armenians eat when they were near the Roman ruins at Ourfa?
(a) Locusts.
(b) Beetles.
(c) Grasshoppers.
(d) Snakes.

2. At what age were young boys forcibly conscripted as Janissaries for the Ottoman Empire?
(a) Between 11 and 13.
(b) Between 12 and 14.
(c) Between 13 and 15.
(d) Between 10 and 12.

3. According to the quote from Ambassador Morgenthau, for how many days did the 18,000 Armenians march, before arriving in Aleppo during an early death march?
(a) Sixty days.
(b) Ninety days.
(c) Eighty days.
(d) Seventy days.

4. What is bakshish?
(a) An army.
(b) A salesperson.
(c) A bribe.
(d) A legal document.

5. What city managed to protect itself from Turkish invaders in the 17th century, thereby stopping the expansion of Ottoman power throughout Western Europe?
(a) Munich.
(b) Salzburg.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Talaat Pasha predict the economic loss of the Armenians would be when he spoke to Morgenthau?

2. In what year was the construction of the Der Zor memorial completed?

3. What was the Syrian government doing when the bones of Der Zor victims were dug up?

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

5. Who was Zia Gokalp?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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