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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what time did Balakian and his friend Ed Harrison routinely sneak out of their houses to explore the town?
(a) 3 a.m.
(b) 4 a.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 1 a.m.

2. How many Crusades passed through Byzantium on the way to the Holy Land?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

3. Why did Balakian not like the works of Anais Nin, who was friends with his aunt?
(a) He found her works too realistic.
(b) He found her works too ironic.
(c) He found her works self-indulgent.
(d) He found her works too difficult to understand.

4. Why was Balakian's father unable to serve during World War II?
(a) Poor hearing.
(b) A limp.
(c) High blood pressure.
(d) Poor eyesight.

5. Who wrote The Nazi Doctors?
(a) Norman Itzkowitz.
(b) Robert Jay Lifton.
(c) Heath Lowry.
(d) Bernard Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of business did Dovey's family run in the United States?

2. What kind of car did the Aroosian women drive during their house-viewing expeditions in 1958?

3. In what year did the Young Turks take over the crumbling Ottoman Empire?

4. Where did Nafina and Dovey bump into each other in New York, several years after the genocide?

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

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