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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 was Piri's father's position?

2. What did Piri get to do when she arrived in Beregszasz?

3. When was Father's battalion going to come through Beregszasz?

4. What was Father's expectation?

5. What was Piri's mood about school and her future?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Babi distrust Farenc?

2. How did current events affect the Passover holiday?

3. Describe Father's visit home.

4. What was strange to Piri about Babi's distrust?

5. Describe Piri's return to Beregszasz.

6. Why did Farenc agree to help Piri and her family?

7. What bad news did Farenc deliver during one visit?

8. Discuss Farenc's return to Babi's farm.

9. How did Piri's mother react to this encounter with the group of boys?

10. How did Piri communicate with her family in Beregszasz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For writers like Kafka, the absurdity and insanity of the concentration camp became a metaphor for the modern world as a whole. He barely survived in it. How does Siegal portray the insanity of the times? What philosophy does she develop that lets her keep going? How does Siegal define the different and the different temperaments that took the events in stride or broke beneath them?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Two characters, Lujza and Dr. Feher, commit suicide rather than face the horrific nature of the times. What separates the characters who endure and the characters who fold? How does Siegal address this difference? Using examples from the text, describe the difference between survivors and the people who killed themselves.

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