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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 junk food did Balakian reminisce about eating at the Dillstein's house?
(a) Hostess Cupcakes.
(b) Ding-Dongs.
(c) Devil Dogs.
(d) Mallomars.

2. Who was Balakian's first anti-hero?
(a) Benjamin Braddock.
(b) Marlon Brando.
(c) Holden Caulfield.
(d) James Dean.

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

4. What is berek?
(a) A rice dish.
(b) Cheese-filled filo triangles.
(c) Kebabs.
(d) A pistachio dessert.

5. What was Balakian's temperature when he was delirious with the measles?
(a) 104.
(b) 102.
(c) 105.
(d) 106.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Biblical figure were the Jewish boys arguing about during the baseball game in "An Armenian Jew in Suburbia"?

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

3. What grocery store did Peter and his grandmother shop at?

4. Approximately how many Armenians were slaughtered in Diarbekir in 1915?

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

(see the answer key)

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