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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 movie was being played at the Times Square theater when Balakian spoke at the commemoration?
(a) Apocalpyse Now.
(b) The Killing Fields.
(c) Sophie's Choice.
(d) Schindler's List.

2. Who was driving when the young men crashed the car in the middle of the night, in "Saturday Autumn II"?
(a) Tom Shadek.
(b) Bill Worth.
(c) Peter Balakian.
(d) Ed Harrison.

3. What college did Balakian's father say was "better than its name"?
(a) Dartmouth.
(b) Kalamazoo.
(c) Harvey Mudd.
(d) Brown.

4. In what year was Ambassador Morgenthau's Story published?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1917.

5. How many Crusades passed through Byzantium on the way to the Holy Land?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name Zivart mean in Armenian?

2. Where did Franklin Delano Roosevelt attend prep school?

3. What was Peter shocked to see his grandmother doing as she read late at night?

4. How many months worth of canned evaporated milk were Americans advised to have on hand during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

5. How many Armenian soldiers defended their country when half a million Persian soldiers invaded in the fifth century?

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