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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. Where did Julia grow up?

2. What did Julia say she would not have had without her husband?

3. Where did Julia's husband grow up?

4. Where did Julia take her first cooking class?

5. What kind of group was the Gourmettes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Julia raised?

2. How did Julia feel about her apartment in the Art Deco building in Marseille?

3. Why did Julia joins the OSS?

4. How did Julia feel as she prepared to move to Marseille?

5. How did Julia get a publisher for her first cookbook?

6. Why did Simca ask Julia for help on her cookbook, and how did Julia respond?

7. What did Julia want to be when she first went to college?

8. What did Julia think about making admissions over botched dishes?

9. Who was Curnonsky, and how did Julia feel about him?

10. How did Paul's mother get by after her husband died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was Paul raised, and how did this differ from the way Julia was raised? How did these differences affect their chemistry within their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

How did the French culture affect Julia's life and her relationship with her family and husband?

Essay Topic 3

How did Julia's relationship with her father change over the course of her life, and what caused these changes in their relationship?

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