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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Mother.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What grocery store did Peter and his grandmother shop at?
(a) Wegman's.
(b) Kroger's.
(c) Safeway.
(d) A&P.

3. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Five.
(d) Twelve.

4. In what year did the book open?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1959.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is berek?

4. In grandmother's dream about her friend Nevart (described in "The Woman in Blue"), what was Nevart drinking?

5. What is lokma?

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