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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Bloody News, From Page 199 Through Page 269.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book caused a racial flareup among the football players during Balakian's freshmen year at college?
(a) W.E.B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk.
(b) Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
(c) The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
(d) Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice.

2. What prize did William Saroyan turn down for his play, "The Time of Your Life," in 1943?
(a) Nobel.
(b) Pulitzer.
(c) Tony.
(d) PEN.

3. How old was Peter Balakian when his aunts began taking him on the house-viewing expeditions?
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eleven.

4. What American author was NOT mentioned as the topic of one of Aunt Anna's published literary books?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Carson McCullers.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

5. In what month and year did Balakian's grandmother initiate formal compensation claims against the Turkish government?
(a) May 1919.
(b) May 1921.
(c) April 1918.
(d) June 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Aunt Nona begin institutional schooling?

2. What color dress did Auntie Anna wear while delivering a talk at Balakian's college?

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

4. What degree was Balakian's girlfriend working on when he visited her, instead of going to his grandmother's memorial service?

5. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?

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