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

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

3. What fruit does the spice mahleb come from?
(a) Wild cherry.
(b) Pomegranate.
(c) Plum.
(d) Fig.

4. How did Dovey's daughter Margaret die?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Brain tumor.
(c) Breast cancer.
(d) Skin cancer.

5. How many months worth of canned evaporated milk were Americans advised to have on hand during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) Eighteen months.
(b) Six months.
(c) Twenty-four months.
(d) Twelve monhs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What stock did grandmother recommend buying after she had a dream?

3. In what German city did Diran Balakian study medicine?

4. Until what year were Christians forbidden to serve in the Ottoman army?

5. Approximately how many Armenian women were forced to dance in the Diarbekir square when Dovey saw them?

(see the answer key)

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