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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the DuFaures insist to the police?
(a) That Jews deserved doctors as well as everyone else.
(b) That Rachel needed medical attention.
(c) That they were not hiding Rachel.
(d) That Rachel hadn't done anything wrong.

2. Who does Julia meet at the Rainsferd house?
(a) Mr. Rainsferd.
(b) The Rainsferd's nanny.
(c) The Rainsferd's daughter.
(d) Mrs. Rainsferd.

3. What does this information about Sarah inspire in Julia?
(a) A desire to go to sleep.
(b) A desire to perform violent acts.
(c) A desire to find Sarah.
(d) A desire to get away from France.

4. What does the curator at the Memorial Museum tell Julia?
(a) That most people don't care what happened there.
(b) That this is the center of attempts to memorialize the war and the deportations.
(c) That interest in the history comes and goes in waves.
(d) That there's no escaping the shadow of what happened there.

5. What is Julia looking forward to doing?
(a) Reuniting with Bertrand.
(b) Being free of the baby.
(c) Leaving Paris.
(d) Divorcing Bertrand.

6. Gaspard gives Julia a letter--who was it written to?
(a) Gaspard.
(b) Jules.
(c) Geneviève.
(d) Alain.

7. How does Julia take this person's arrival at the nursing home?
(a) As a sign of aggression.
(b) As an opportunity to get new information.
(c) As a bad sign.
(d) As a sign of contrition.

8. What does the narrator say about children surviving the deportations and camps?
(a) Some survived, but not many.
(b) There were camps of runaway children surviving in the forests.
(c) Almost all children were captured and sent to camps.
(d) They typically only survived until late autumn, if they ran away.

9. Who is Gaspard DuFaure?
(a) Executor of Jules and Geneviève's estate.
(b) Nephew of Jules and Geneviève.
(c) Grandson of Jules and Geneviève.
(d) Son of Jules and Geneviève.

10. How does the letter describe Sarah's feelings about peace?
(a) It doesn't exist.
(b) It is a fleeting sensation.
(c) It has a bitter taste.
(d) It is an illusion.

11. In what decision does Julia change her mind?
(a) Having an abortion.
(b) Looking for Sarah.
(c) Publishing her story about Sarah.
(d) Leaving Paris.

12. How does Julia respond to Bamber's offer?
(a) She goes outside.
(b) She flees in tears.
(c) She pours out pent-up emotion.
(d) She declines.

13. When did Gaspard DuFaure find out that Sarah was a Jewish refugee?
(a) As a child.
(b) As soon as he heard about her.
(c) Forty years later.
(d) Years ago.

14. Where do Julia and Guillaume make a trip to?
(a) Auschwitz.
(b) Treblinka.
(c) Vel d'Hiv'.
(d) Drancy.

15. Where is Sarah?
(a) Sarah is traveling to the Middle East.
(b) Sarah divorced Mr. Rainsferd and lives in L.A.
(c) Sarah died in 1972 in a car wreck.
(d) Sarah separated from her husband and moved back to France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Julia's interview like, with the person Mara Rainsferd put her in touch with?

2. Where did Sarah go?

3. What does Bertrand say he's going through?

4. Who is Mara Rainsferd?

5. What does Franck Lévy tell Julia Jaramond about Sarah?

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