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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose biography was Peter's grandmother reading when he came down late at night to get a bite to eat?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Mary Todd Lincoln.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

2. What colors were the threads on the brocade of Mr. Blumenthal's yarmulke?
(a) Blue and yellow.
(b) Silver and gold.
(c) Blue and gold.
(d) Silver and blue.

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

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

5. What is pakht?
(a) The force of love.
(b) Love.
(c) The force of fate.
(d) Dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What baseball team did Peter and his grandmother root for?

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

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

4. In what year did the author's family move to Tenafly, New Jersey?

5. How many months worth of canned evaporated milk were Americans advised to have on hand during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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