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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people at the door tell the girl's mother to do?
(a) Tell her to flee.
(b) Warn her that the police are coming.
(c) Tell her to pack her things.
(d) Arrest her.

2. What does the girl receive from a stranger?
(a) An apple.
(b) A book.
(c) A roll.
(d) A blanket.

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

4. How old is the girl's brother?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

5. 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 old.
(c) She was British.
(d) She was young.

6. What do the people do when the orders come?
(a) They resist.
(b) They comply.
(c) They riot.
(d) They hide.

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

8. 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.

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

10. What does the concierge do as the girl and her mother leave the building?
(a) Collapse.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Intervene.
(d) Apologize.

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

12. Why is Julia Jaramond looking forward to taking over Mame Tézac's apartment?
(a) She will have a servant.
(b) She will be in charge of redecorating.
(c) She will be closer to the center of the city.
(d) She will have an office.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the girl and Rachel go from Beaune-la-Rolande?

2. What is Mame Tézac suffering?

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

4. What does the girl do when her father tells her what is happening?

5. How is the family transported away from their neighborhood?

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