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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. Who do the girl and her mother see in the street?
(a) Other professor's families.
(b) Other Jews.
(c) Other political refugees.
(d) Other immigrants.

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

10. Where are the people transported to?
(a) A ghetto.
(b) A bus station.
(c) A train station.
(d) Back home.

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

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

13. What is the girl's father's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Factory foreman.
(c) Publisher.
(d) Scientist.

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

15. How did the restrictions affect the girl?
(a) She could not leave the house.
(b) She was beaten regularly.
(c) She was forced to work long hours cleaning the sidewalks.
(d) She could not play in the park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ailments were NOT among the ailments described as afflicting the people at the new location?

2. What is stamped on the family's identity cards?

3. What do the girl and Rachel take with them from Beaune-la-Rolande?

4. How does the narrator explain the fact that Bamber did not know anything about Vel d'Hiv'?

5. What promise does the girl make to her brother?

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