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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. What is lokma?
(a) Kebab.
(b) Fried dough.
(c) Lamb.
(d) Doughnut.
2. How many miles away was Tenafly from Teaneck?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.
3. What anniversary was the Soviet Armenian Republic celebrating when Balakian's father wrote to his son at college urging him to learn more about the country?
(a) 50th.
(b) 40th.
(c) 30th.
(d) 25th.
4. What was Balakian's temperature when he was delirious with the measles?
(a) 102.
(b) 104.
(c) 106.
(d) 105.
5. In what year was Balakian sick with the measles?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1962.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year did Peter's grandmother die?
2. Where were Balakian and his father when the young woman spoke to the father about leaving her abusive husband?
3. What kind of food did Balakian's mother claim was not fresh at the French restaurant?
4. What does the name Arax mean?
5. What degree was Balakian's girlfriend working on when he visited her, instead of going to his grandmother's memorial service?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Balakian react so strongly to Allen Ginsberg's reading of his poem "Kaddish"?
2. How did Balakian's mother's behavior at the restaurant in France reflect her cultured upbringing?
3. Describe Balakian' s father.
4. How did Balakian's mother differ from most of the other mothers on Crabtree Lane in Tenafly?
5. How did Balakian's family's obsession with style reflect their history?
6. Why did Balakian's father send him the newspaper clipping about the Armenian Soviet republic and how did Peter react?
7. How did Balakian's grandmother continue to affect him even after her death?
8. Why were books so important to Balakian's Aunt Nona?
9. Why did Balakian's grandmother tell him a story from the genocide while he was delirious with fever?
10. Did Balakian's father have a strong connection to Constantinople, and how did that reflect the city's tumultuous history?
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