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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the family know was coming?

2. What did Dr. Feher give Mother?

3. What did Mother try to do?

4. Where did Piri have her first kiss?

5. What plans were made at the places Iboya went in secret?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Iboya's work affect the family?

2. Describe the circumstances of Lujza's death.

3. Why did Piri and Iboya end up running the household themselves?

4. Where were the Jews concentrated by the Germans?

5. How did the political scene change in Hungary?

6. Describe the Zionist meetings Piri attended.

7. How did the family handle Lujza's death?

8. What message did Mother get from Lajos' parents?

9. Describe Piri's development into womanhood.

10. How did life in the ghetto affect Mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

How does Piri handle the fact that her parents were repeatedly asked to send her away from the war, but did not--and paid the price with their own lives? How does Piri overcome the guilt that comes with having survived something the others did not? Even if the guilt is not explicitly mentioned, if you guess that it's there, how does it change your reading of the memoir?

Essay Topic 3

Does 'Upon the Head of a Goat' have a moral, and if so, what is it? How is it conveyed? How is it arrived at, in a narrative that provides contrary views and values?

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