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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What baseball legend was Balakian reading about while he was sick with the measles?
(a) Willie Mays.
(b) Jackie Robinson.
(c) Babe Ruth.
(d) Roger Maris.

2. In what year did a devastating earthquake hit Armenia?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1988.

3. What kind of food did Balakian's mother claim was not fresh at the French restaurant?
(a) Pate.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Beef.
(d) Fish.

4. Approximately how many Armenians were slaughtered in Diarbekir in 1915?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 75,000.

5. Where did Franklin Delano Roosevelt attend prep school?
(a) Groton.
(b) Andover.
(c) Exeter.
(d) Lawrenceville.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many minutes were Balakian's phone calls restricted to when he was twelve?

2. What singer did the man in the motorcycle jacket on the bus remind Peter of?

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

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

5. In what New Jersey town did Bedros Aroosian work in the silk mills?

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