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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 was Peter shocked to see his grandmother doing as she read late at night?
(a) Smoking a pipe.
(b) Drinking a beer.
(c) Smoking a cigar.
(d) Drinking whiskey.

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

3. What kind of ice cream did grandmother buy Peter when they accidentally got off the subway in Harlem?
(a) Creamsicle.
(b) Popsicle.
(c) Fudgsicle.
(d) Italian ice.

4. In grandmother's dream about her friend Nevart (described in "The Woman in Blue"), what was Nevart drinking?
(a) Rosewater.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Beer.
(d) Tahn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children were in the Wall family?

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

3. What does the phrase, "Mairig Asdvadzadzeen," mean?

4. Whose voice did Balakian describe as hitting him "as broken glass under a tire"?

5. What is the name of the torte made with shredded wheat?

(see the answer key)

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