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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Bloody News, Through Page 198.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many words did the World Book encyclopedia have on Armenia when Balakian tried to research his culture?
(a) 500.
(b) 200.
(c) 100.
(d) 400.

2. Whose voice did Balakian describe as hitting him "as broken glass under a tire"?
(a) Roy Orbison.
(b) Jackie Wilson.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Elvis Presley.

3. What singer did the man in the motorcycle jacket on the bus remind Peter of?
(a) Elvis Presley.
(b) Roy Orbison.
(c) Jerry Lee Lewis.
(d) Buddy Holly.

4. Where was the Armenian King Leo V buried?
(a) Marseilles.
(b) Paris.
(c) St. Denis.
(d) Nice.

5. What kind of trees do the silkworms come from?
(a) Oaks.
(b) Mulberries.
(c) Willows.
(d) Maples.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Morgenthau appointed ambassador to Turkey?

2. What is pakht?

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

4. What is lokma?

5. What was the name of the poetry journal Balakian founded in 1976?

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