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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the nickname of Arkayutiun, the soup Balakian ate while sick?
(a) Soup of Love.
(b) Soup of Heaven.
(c) Soup of Life.
(d) Soup of the Soul.

2. In what year was Nersesian College founded?
(a) 1854.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1723.
(d) 1835.

3. In what French town did Balakian's parents end up at a police station, after a dispute at a restaurant?
(a) Nimes.
(b) Paris.
(c) Bordeaux.
(d) Nice.

4. What is involved in the torture method called bastinado?
(a) Pulling out fingernails.
(b) Waterboarding.
(c) Hot pincers.
(d) Beating the soles of the feet.

5. Where were Balakian and his father when the young woman spoke to the father about leaving her abusive husband?
(a) Washington.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Idaho.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Ivy League university was involved in many of the disputes about Turkish denial of the genocide?

2. What Ginsberg poem did Balakian's mother want several copies of?

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

4. What item, stolen from her family by the Turks, did Balakian's grandmother find in the home of a family in Aleppo?

5. Where did Balakian and his father meet the Indian dressed as a chief during their cross-country tour?

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