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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Armenian empire at its height?

2. Who was Balakian's first anti-hero?

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

4. What kind of trees do the silkworms come from?

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

(see the answer key)

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