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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. In what year did Balakian first discover a love for poetry while in English class?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1969.

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

3. In what year was Ambassador Morgenthau's Story published?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1922.

4. What did Aunt Nona major in while at Barnard?
(a) Economics.
(b) History.
(c) English.
(d) French.

5. Where was the Armenian King Leo V buried?
(a) Nice.
(b) Paris.
(c) St. Denis.
(d) Marseilles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Ottoman Turks originally come from?

2. In what year did Balakian and his father take a Greyhound bus across the United States?

3. In what year did Peter's grandmother die?

4. What was the name of the private school Balakian was made to attend for high school?

5. To what town was Balakian taking his girlfriend when he refused to return home for his grandmother's memorial service?

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