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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Bloody News, Through Page 198.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is pakht?
(a) Dreams.
(b) The force of love.
(c) Love.
(d) The force of fate.

3. At what school did Aunt Anna teach French?
(a) Vassar.
(b) NYU.
(c) Columbia.
(d) CUNY.

4. What is the significance of Mt. Ararat?
(a) It is where the Armenian people accepted Christianity.
(b) It is where Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son.
(c) It is where Noah's Ark reportedly landed.
(d) It is where the Ten Commandments were handed down.

5. Why did Balakian not like the works of Anais Nin, who was friends with his aunt?
(a) He found her works too difficult to understand.
(b) He found her works too ironic.
(c) He found her works self-indulgent.
(d) He found her works too realistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what grade was Peter during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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

3. In what year did Roman Emperor Constantine turn Byzantium into the imperial residence?

4. What does the name Arax mean?

5. At what time did Balakian and his friend Ed Harrison routinely sneak out of their houses to explore the town?

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