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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 advice did Balakian (at the urging of his aunt) reluctantly seek from William Saroyan?
(a) Recommendations for poetry journals.
(b) Advice on purchasing a car.
(c) Recommendations for typewriters.
(d) Advice on breaking into poetry.

2. What California town was the Armenian-American writer William Saroyan from?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Lodi.
(c) Fresno.
(d) San Francisco.

3. In what year did the author's family move to Tenafly, New Jersey?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1962.

4. Whom did Saroyan consider his "rival"?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) O'Connor.
(d) Faulkner.

5. How old was Aunt Gladys when the deportations began?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What treatment did Balakian's grandmother receive after suffering a breakdown because of the attack on Pearl Harbor?

3. In what New Jersey town did Bedros Aroosian work in the silk mills?

4. How many minutes were Balakian's phone calls restricted to when he was twelve?

5. In what year did the Columbia Lions win the Rose Bowl?

(see the answer key)

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