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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what part of Manhattan did Aunt Anna live?
(a) Upper West Side.
(b) Soho.
(c) Morningside Heights.
(d) Upper East Side.
2. In what year did the Columbia Lions win the Rose Bowl?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1938.
3. About how many words did the World Book encyclopedia have on Armenia when Balakian tried to research his culture?
(a) 100.
(b) 400.
(c) 200.
(d) 500.
4. What kind of trees do the silkworms come from?
(a) Willows.
(b) Oaks.
(c) Maples.
(d) Mulberries.
5. What is pakht?
(a) Love.
(b) The force of fate.
(c) The force of love.
(d) Dreams.
Short Answer Questions
1. What color dress did Auntie Anna wear while delivering a talk at Balakian's college?
2. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?
3. In what French town did Balakian's parents end up at a police station, after a dispute at a restaurant?
4. In what year did Peter's grandmother die?
5. At what age did Balakian's father leave France for the United States?
Short Essay Questions
1. Did Balakian's father have a strong connection to Constantinople, and how did that reflect the city's tumultuous history?
2. Why did Balakian's father insist his son leave the public schools and attend a private school?
3. What impression did the writer, William Saroyan, make on Balakian during the party at his aunt's apartment?
4. What was Balakian's reaction to the film, The Graduate?
5. How did Balakian's mother's behavior at the restaurant in France reflect her cultured upbringing?
6. What did the phrase "the old country" mean to Balakian as a child?
7. Why was Balakian so unnerved by his grandmother's constant doting on him at family gatherings?
8. How did Balakian's father's fear of germs, as well as other family member's obsession with health and safety, reflect their experiences during the genocide?
9. How did Balakian's grandmother continue to affect him even after her death?
10. Why did Balakian and Auntie Anna argue about literature?
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