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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. In what month and year did Balakian's grandmother initiate formal compensation claims against the Turkish government?
(a) June 1920.
(b) May 1919.
(c) April 1918.
(d) May 1921.

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

3. What American author was NOT mentioned as the topic of one of Aunt Anna's published literary books?
(a) Carson McCullers.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Kurt Vonnegut.

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

5. Where did the Ottoman Turks originally come from?
(a) Nepal.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Tibet.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. What California town was the Armenian-American writer William Saroyan from?

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

3. Where had Balakian learned the stories of the Bible?

4. Who did the Armenian refugee, Soghomon Tehlirian, assassinate in 1921?

5. What is pakht?

(see the answer key)

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