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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. What happened then the girl and her family arrived at Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) The people were killed.
(b) The people were put to work.
(c) The men and women were separated.
(d) Healthy people were separated from sick people.

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

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

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

8. What does the neighbor say as the girl and her mother leave?
(a) She tells them that everything will be fine.
(b) She threatens them.
(c) She curses at them.
(d) She objects to their treatment.

9. What is the girl's name?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Bamber.
(c) Geneviève.
(d) Sirka.

10. What is Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) A ghetto.
(b) A prison.
(c) A concentration camp.
(d) A holding camp.

11. How does the narrator describe the conditions at Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) Inhuman.
(b) Spartan.
(c) Improving.
(d) Luxurious.

12. What does Rachel become sick with?
(a) Scarlet fever.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Pneumonia.

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

14. How does the mother change at Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) She becomes a shell of her former self.
(b) She collapses from within.
(c) She gets fierce.
(d) She gets sick and weak.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When is "Sarah's Key" set?

2. What does the girl do to her brother?

3. How did the police react when the mother objected to going?

4. How does the girl spend her time at the new location?

5. What does Bertrand tell Julia when she becomes upset about his mother's apartment?

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