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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chain of Words.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?
(a) Ten.
(b) Five.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Fifteen.

2. What meat did the Balakian family frequently eat for dinner?
(a) Lamb.
(b) Goat.
(c) Beef.
(d) Chicken.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the name Arax mean?

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

3. What was the name of the poetry journal Balakian founded in 1976?

4. In what New Jersey town did Bedros Aroosian work in the silk mills?

5. In grandmother's dream about her friend Nevart (described in "The Woman in Blue"), what was Nevart drinking?

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