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

2. How old was Peter Balakian when his aunts began taking him on the house-viewing expeditions?
(a) Eight.
(b) Five.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Ten.

3. What Biblical figure were the Jewish boys arguing about during the baseball game in "An Armenian Jew in Suburbia"?
(a) Noah's wife.
(b) Moses' wife.
(c) Abraham's wife.
(d) Joshua's wife.

4. In what year did Peter's grandmother die?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1964.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the lowest mark Balakian's female relatives gave to the houses they viewed during their Sunday drives?

2. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?

3. Whose biography was Peter's grandmother reading when he came down late at night to get a bite to eat?

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

5. In what French town did Balakian's parents end up at a police station, after a dispute at a restaurant?

(see the answer key)

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