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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Father.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What baseball legend was Balakian reading about while he was sick with the measles?
(a) Roger Maris.
(b) Willie Mays.
(c) Jackie Robinson.
(d) Babe Ruth.

2. In what year did the author's family move to Tenafly, New Jersey?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1958.

3. What is lokma?
(a) Fried dough.
(b) Lamb.
(c) Doughnut.
(d) Kebab.

4. What Biblical figure were the Jewish boys arguing about during the baseball game in "An Armenian Jew in Suburbia"?
(a) Moses' wife.
(b) Joshua's wife.
(c) Noah's wife.
(d) Abraham's wife.

5. In what French town did Balakian's parents end up at a police station, after a dispute at a restaurant?
(a) Bordeaux.
(b) Nimes.
(c) Nice.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. What colors were the threads on the brocade of Mr. Blumenthal's yarmulke?

2. What fruit does the spice mahleb come from?

3. What is berek?

4. In what New Jersey town did Bedros Aroosian work in the silk mills?

5. What junk food did Balakian reminisce about eating at the Dillstein's house?

(see the answer key)

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