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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 city was the attorney's office which helped Balakian's grandmother file the compensation claim?
(a) Newark.
(b) Tenafly.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) New York.

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

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

4. What stock did grandmother recommend buying after she had a dream?
(a) IBM.
(b) AT&T.
(c) NBC.
(d) GE.

5. According to the quote from Ambassador Morgenthau, for how many days did the 18,000 Armenians march, before arriving in Aleppo during an early death march?
(a) Ninety days.
(b) Seventy days.
(c) Sixty days.
(d) Eighty days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does odar mean?

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

3. What is berek?

4. Who was Balakian's first anti-hero?

5. In grandmother's dream about her friend Nevart (described in "The Woman in Blue"), what was Nevart drinking?

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