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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the girls during the escape?
(a) They have to kill a guard.
(b) The red-haired policeman catches them.
(c) They are caught and sent back.
(d) They get out without any incidents.

3. What promise does the girl make to her brother?
(a) To take care of him.
(b) Never to forget him.
(c) To come back that evening.
(d) To be back as soon as possible.

4. What does the concierge tell the police?
(a) To go to Hell.
(b) That the girl and her mother are not Jewish.
(c) Where to find other Jews.
(d) To treat the girl and her mother well.

5. What do the police tell the people?
(a) That they will be sent to work camps.
(b) That they will be sent home soon.
(c) That they will be killed.
(d) That they have to wait for orders.

6. What is the girl's mother's reaction to this?
(a) She sobs, but complies.
(b) She flees immediately.
(c) She yells and carries on.
(d) She collapses.

7. What does the narrator say the girl thinks about at her new location?
(a) Where her friends are.
(b) When she will eat.
(c) How her brother will escape from the cubby.
(d) Why she has to wear a yellow star.

8. How is the family transported away from their neighborhood?
(a) By foot.
(b) By train.
(c) By bus.
(d) By cart.

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

10. What does the waiter at the café tell Julia and Bamber about?
(a) An old woman who'll remember Vel d'Hiv'.
(b) Where to look for information on Vel d'Hiv' at the National Archives.
(c) That they should forget all about Vel d'Hiv'.
(d) His grandparents who were deported from Vel d'Hiv'.

11. What does Bertrand tell Julia when she becomes upset about his mother's apartment?
(a) That he knows about the cubby-hole.
(b) That it had been completely gutted.
(c) To calm down.
(d) That she is imagining things.

12. What does the father do when the girl falls ill?
(a) Takes her to a doctor.
(b) Comforts her.
(c) Buys her medicine.
(d) Abandons her.

13. What does the girl think this predicament has to do with?
(a) The yellow stars on their clothes.
(b) Their religion.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The economy.

14. How many Jews were deported from Vel d'Hiv' in July 1942?
(a) 130,000.
(b) 1,300.
(c) 1.3 million.
(d) 13,000.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What language are the girl's parent's speaking?

2. What does the concierge do as the girl and her mother leave the building?

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

4. How long had the girl been at this new location before she became ill?

5. Who do the girl and her mother see in the street?

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