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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 poet's work was the class dissecting when Balakian challenged another student's interpretation of the words?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) William Butler Yeats.
(d) Hart Crane.

2. How old was Peter Balakian when his aunts began taking him on the house-viewing expeditions?
(a) Five.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eleven.

3. What disease did Balakian's grandmother almost die from when the family was in Aleppo?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Dysentery.

4. What job was Balakian working at when he began reading as much as he could about the Armenian genocide, in "Before the Nazis"?
(a) Mail runner.
(b) Cabbie.
(c) Bike messenger.
(d) UPS deliver man.

5. Whose biography was Peter's grandmother reading when he came down late at night to get a bite to eat?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the book open?

2. Whose voice did Balakian describe as hitting him "as broken glass under a tire"?

3. What was the nickname of Arkayutiun, the soup Balakian ate while sick?

4. What was the Black Arrow?

5. When did the first Armenian genocide resolution come before the U.S. Congress?

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