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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VII: Syria 2005.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months worth of canned evaporated milk were Americans advised to have on hand during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) Twelve monhs.
(b) Six months.
(c) Eighteen months.
(d) Twenty-four months.

2. What meat did the Balakian family frequently eat for dinner?
(a) Goat.
(b) Beef.
(c) Lamb.
(d) Chicken.

3. How did Dovey's daughter Margaret die?
(a) Breast cancer.
(b) Brain tumor.
(c) Leukemia.
(d) Skin cancer.

4. Whose assassination was gripping the people of Lebanon when Balakian arrived in Beirut in 2005?
(a) Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
(b) President Walid Jumblatt.
(c) President Michel Aoun.
(d) Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

5. Along with Constantinople and Baku, what was considered one of the three cosmopolitan centers of Armenian culture?
(a) Tiflis.
(b) Tokat.
(c) Etchmiadzin.
(d) Diarbekir.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Hitler mention the fact that nobody now remembered the Armenians?

4. In what year did Balakian first discover a love for poetry while in English class?

5. At what age were young boys forcibly conscripted as Janissaries for the Ottoman Empire?

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