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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. What sports implement was hanging in the office of Dr. Cooley, the headmaster of Balakian's new private high school?
(a) A baseball bat.
(b) A tennis racket.
(c) A soccer ball.
(d) A lacrosse stick.

2. What treatment did Balakian's grandmother receive after suffering a breakdown because of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
(a) Electroshock therapy.
(b) Medication.
(c) None.
(d) Hospitalization.

3. What is berek?
(a) A pistachio dessert.
(b) A rice dish.
(c) Cheese-filled filo triangles.
(d) Kebabs.

4. When did the deportations of Armenians into the Syrian desert begin?
(a) Summer 1916.
(b) Fall 1914.
(c) Spring 1915.
(d) Spring 1916.

5. What popular song was played at Lenny Cohen's bar mitzvah?
(a) The Twist.
(b) Heartbreak Hotel.
(c) Mack the Knife.
(d) I Want to Hold Your Hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the poetry journal Balakian founded in 1976?

2. What fruit does the spice mahleb come from?

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

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

5. What city managed to protect itself from Turkish invaders in the 17th century, thereby stopping the expansion of Ottoman power throughout Western Europe?

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