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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Julia know instinctively about Mame Tézac's apartment?
(a) It had belonged to Jews.
(b) It was going to be very expensive to restore.
(c) It was where her aunt had locked away her brother.
(d) It was haunted.

3. Where does the girl's parents' fear come from?
(a) The aerial bombs.
(b) The fascists.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The economy.

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

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

6. How does the girl spend her time at the new location?
(a) Making friends.
(b) Looking for food.
(c) Attempting to escape.
(d) With her head between her knees.

7. What makes Julia worry when she gets pregnant?
(a) Bertrand's infidelities.
(b) The idea that her children would be Jewish and therefore persecuted.
(c) Her miscarriages.
(d) Genetic conditions that ran in her family.

8. How long had the girl been at this new location before she became ill?
(a) Months.
(b) She didn't know.
(c) Days.
(d) Weeks.

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

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

11. What is Mame Tézac suffering?
(a) Alzheimer's.
(b) Depression.
(c) Multiple sclerosis.
(d) Parkinson's.

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

13. What is stamped on the family's identity cards?
(a) French.
(b) Jew.
(c) Exile.
(d) Foreigner.

14. How do the girl's parents react when they hear about the boy?
(a) They both pass out.
(b) They are horrified.
(c) They are relieved.
(d) They start a fight, and are beaten.

15. What do the girl and Rachel take with them from Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) Money from the red-haired policeman.
(b) Two other children.
(c) Food from the commissary.
(d) The names of other children there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What condition does the narrator say the people are in?

2. Why is Julia Jaramond looking forward to taking over Mame Tézac's apartment?

3. What does the waiter at the café tell Julia and Bamber about?

4. What happens to the girls during the escape?

5. How does the narrator describe how people felt about the girl's family?

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