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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: Commemoration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the first Armenian genocide resolution come before the U.S. Congress?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1984.

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

3. What was the lowest mark Balakian's female relatives gave to the houses they viewed during their Sunday drives?
(a) Hum hum.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Next.
(d) F.

4. What poet's work was the class dissecting when Balakian challenged another student's interpretation of the words?
(a) William Butler Yeats.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Hart Crane.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name Arax mean?

2. In what year was Nersesian College founded?

3. How many months worth of canned evaporated milk were Americans advised to have on hand during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

4. At what age did Balakian's father leave France for the United States?

5. At what age were young boys forcibly conscripted as Janissaries for the Ottoman Empire?

(see the answer key)

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