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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI: Commemoration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city was the attorney's office which helped Balakian's grandmother file the compensation claim?
(a) New York.
(b) Atlantic City.
(c) Newark.
(d) Tenafly.

2. In what year did Balakian's father save the man having the heart attack at a Columbia game?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1960.

3. What team was Columbia playing when the fan had a heart attack?
(a) Yale.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Harvard.

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

5. What advice did Balakian (at the urging of his aunt) reluctantly seek from William Saroyan?
(a) Recommendations for typewriters.
(b) Advice on purchasing a car.
(c) Recommendations for poetry journals.
(d) Advice on breaking into poetry.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What color were the kitchen cabinets in the Balakian's new home in Tenafly?

4. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?

5. What is a hamal?

(see the answer key)

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