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

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

3. In what part of Syria is Der Zor located?
(a) Eastern.
(b) Northern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Western.

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

5. Along with Constantinople and Baku, what was considered one of the three cosmopolitan centers of Armenian culture?
(a) Tokat.
(b) Tiflis.
(c) Diarbekir.
(d) Etchmiadzin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the term genocide coined?

2. How did Dovey's daughter Margaret die?

3. In what year did the Young Turks take over the crumbling Ottoman Empire?

4. In what city did Balakian's co-worker Jimmy grow up?

5. What Ivy League university was involved in many of the disputes about Turkish denial of the genocide?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was the Armenian-Lebanese town of Anjar settled?

4. Why did Balakian take the bones from the memorial site at Der Zor?

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

6. How did writing the poem, "The History of Armenia," help Balakian process his new knowledge of his people's history?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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