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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V: Bloody News, From Page 199 Through Page 269.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Dovey related to Balakian's grandmother?
(a) Dovey was Nafina's second cousin.
(b) Dovey was Nafina's niece.
(c) They were cousins.
(d) They were sisters.

2. In what year did the author's family move to Tenafly, New Jersey?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1962.

3. In what year did Balakian and his father take a Greyhound bus across the United States?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1964.

4. What treatment did Balakian's grandmother receive after suffering a breakdown because of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
(a) Electroshock therapy.
(b) None.
(c) Hospitalization.
(d) Medication.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Along with Constantinople and Baku, what was considered one of the three cosmopolitan centers of Armenian culture?

2. In what year was Ambassador Morgenthau's Story published?

3. What baseball team did Peter and his grandmother root for?

4. What junk food did Balakian reminisce about eating at the Dillstein's house?

5. What team was Columbia playing when the fan had a heart attack?

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