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

2. In what year did Balakian's grandmother give a commemorative speech about the genocide?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1942.

3. In what year was the memoir Armenian Golgotha reissued (in Armenian)?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1972.

4. What does the word hokee mean?
(a) Rest.
(b) Peace.
(c) Soul.
(d) Heaven.

5. What kind of ice cream did grandmother buy Peter when they accidentally got off the subway in Harlem?
(a) Popsicle.
(b) Creamsicle.
(c) Fudgsicle.
(d) Italian ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Balakian's father save the man having the heart attack at a Columbia game?

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

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

4. What disease did Balakian's grandmother almost die from when the family was in Aleppo?

5. Where were Balakian and his father when the young woman spoke to the father about leaving her abusive husband?

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