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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator explain the fact that Bamber did not know anything about Vel d'Hiv'?
(a) She was not Jewish.
(b) She was young.
(c) She was British.
(d) She was old.

2. What language are the girl's parent's speaking?
(a) Polish.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) German.

3. How old is the girl?
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Seven.

4. What is Bertrand's attitude toward Julia?
(a) Worshipful.
(b) Respectful.
(c) Dismissive.
(d) Indifferent.

5. What are the people ordered to do?
(a) Leave their things and get on trains.
(b) Register with the authorities.
(c) Line up for inspection.
(d) Take their things to the entrance.

6. What is the girls doing at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Eavesdropping on her parents.
(b) Fleeing from Paris.
(c) Being deported to a concentration camp.
(d) Hiding in a basement.

7. What does the girl do to her brother?
(a) Loses sight of him.
(b) Locks him in a cubby-hole.
(c) Tells him to hide.
(d) Tells him to run away.

8. Where do the girl and Rachel go from Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) A farmhouse.
(b) A swamp.
(c) The city.
(d) The woods.

9. What does the girl do to take care of the other children?
(a) Tells stories.
(b) Steals from the guards.
(c) Invents games.
(d) Finds food.

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

11. What does the father tell the girl about their situation?
(a) They are being made to pay for someone's sins.
(b) They have to fight if they're going to survive.
(c) They are going to die.
(d) There's nothing they can do.

12. What condition does the narrator say the people are in?
(a) Healthy.
(b) Violent.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Weak.

13. Who proposes to escape?
(a) Geneviève.
(b) The girl.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Jules.

14. What was Vélodrome d' Hiver before it was a holding site for Jews?
(a) A campground.
(b) A race track.
(c) A stadium.
(d) A ghetto.

15. What does the mother tell the girl?
(a) To pack her things.
(b) To run.
(c) To get her coat and get ready to go.
(d) To get her brother and pack some things for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of food and drink did the girl and her mother find at their new location?

2. What does the concierge tell the police?

3. How do the girl's parents react when they hear about the boy?

4. Where does the girl's parents' fear come from?

5. How did the restrictions affect the girl?

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