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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chain of Words.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the nickname of Arkayutiun, the soup Balakian ate while sick?
(a) Soup of Love.
(b) Soup of Heaven.
(c) Soup of the Soul.
(d) Soup of Life.

2. What was the name of the poet with whom Balakian started his journal?
(a) Jack Wheatcroft.
(b) Karl Shapiro.
(c) Bruce Smith.
(d) William Saroyan.

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

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

5. Where had Balakian learned the stories of the Bible?
(a) Armenian Sunday school.
(b) Within the family.
(c) Armenian church.
(d) From his Jewish friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Armenian empire at its height?

2. Whose biography was Peter's grandmother reading when he came down late at night to get a bite to eat?

3. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?

4. What anniversary was the Soviet Armenian Republic celebrating when Balakian's father wrote to his son at college urging him to learn more about the country?

5. How old was Peter Balakian when his aunts began taking him on the house-viewing expeditions?

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