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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 happened to Dr. Feher?

2. Where was Iboya when the Germans came?

3. What had led Luzja to kill herself?

4. Who was Mr. Shuster?

5. Whom did Mother and Piri hear were likely in the procession somewhere?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the political scene change in Hungary?

2. Describe the ultimatum the Germans issued to the Jewish community.

3. Where were the Jews concentrated by the Germans?

4. Where would Iboya spend time outside the house?

5. Describe the group of children with whom Piri spent her time.

6. Describe the family's purchase of a goat.

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

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

9. Describe Piri's development into womanhood.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Memoirs like Elie Wiesel's Night, or Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 'Day in the Live of Ivan Denisovich' detail the goings on inside of concentration camps. This memoir stops at the moment when those stories would have begun. How does this ending point affect the shape of Siegal's narrative? Is there a tension between the memoir as a recollection of childhood, and a recollection of a horrific experience? How does Siegal both include and avoid the experience of the concentration camp itself?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate your own reading of 'Upon the Head of a Goat'--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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