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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how many Armenians were slaughtered in Diarbekir in 1915?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 75,000.

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

3. In what grade was Peter during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(a) Sixth.
(b) Eighth.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Fifth.

4. Whose voice did Balakian describe as hitting him "as broken glass under a tire"?
(a) Bob Dylan.
(b) Elvis Presley.
(c) Roy Orbison.
(d) Jackie Wilson.

5. In what New Jersey town did Bedros Aroosian work in the silk mills?
(a) Tenafly.
(b) Teaneck.
(c) Newark.
(d) Paterson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of ice cream did grandmother buy Peter when they accidentally got off the subway in Harlem?

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

3. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?

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

5. What popular song was played at Lenny Cohen's bar mitzvah?

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