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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 123-179.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the girl change at Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) She gets sick and becomes weak.
(b) She becomes fierce.
(c) She becomes placid.
(d) She hardens.

2. How does the narrator describe the red-haired policeman's demeanor when the girl sees him at Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Embarrassed.
(c) Steely.
(d) Consoling.

3. What does the father do when the girl and her mother are leaving?
(a) Fights with the police.
(b) Shoots at the police.
(c) Calls the neighbors for help.
(d) Emerges from hiding.

4. What do the parents tell the girl?
(a) That they will get the boy that night.
(b) That the neighbors will find the boy.
(c) That the boy will die.
(d) That they are not going home.

5. What does the narrator say about children surviving the deportations and camps?
(a) They typically only survived until late autumn, if they ran away.
(b) Almost all children were captured and sent to camps.
(c) There were camps of runaway children surviving in the forests.
(d) Some survived, but not many.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the girls doing at the beginning of the novel?

2. How does the mother change at Beaune-la-Rolande?

3. Where does the girl's father spend time when he is not working?

4. What is Bertrand's reaction when Julia tells him about her pregnancy?

5. What does the narrator say the girl thinks about at her new location?

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