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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What message did Bertrand get when he returned home?
(a) Zoe called to say that her mother had left for a trip.
(b) Sarah called to see who was looking for her.
(c) Julia called to say that she was leaving for New York.
(d) The doctor called to say that Julia had decided against the abortion.

2. When did Sarah leave France?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1952.

3. What does Bamber notice about Julia?
(a) That she looks faint.
(b) That she seems to be ill.
(c) That something is wrong.
(d) That she hasn't been touched by the site at all.

4. What does Julia ask Franck Lévy about Sarah?
(a) Whether she could have survived.
(b) What he has heard from her.
(c) Where she is now.
(d) When she died.

5. How does Mrs. DuFaure distract the policemen who are searching the basement?
(a) She weeps and makes a scene.
(b) She falls and claims to have injured her ankle.
(c) She chats them up.
(d) She offers food and drink.

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

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

8. What is Julia's interview like, with the person Mara Rainsferd put her in touch with?
(a) It keeps being postponed and ultimately never happened.
(b) Horrible.
(c) Awkward because of language differences.
(d) Satisfying.

9. Where does Julia travel to, in her search for Sarah?
(a) New York.
(b) Beirut.
(c) London.
(d) Jerusalem.

10. What does Sarah find when she gets back to her apartment?
(a) The building is gone.
(b) The cubby is empty.
(c) Her brother's body.
(d) People in the apartment won't let her in.

11. What do Julia and Guillaume find at their destination?
(a) A national park at the camp.
(b) The camp is now low-income housing.
(c) Ruins of the former camp.
(d) A memorial for deported Jews.

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

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

14. How does the narrator characterize the trip to Paris?
(a) The trip was uneventful.
(b) Sarah was recognized, but escaped in a chase.
(c) Sarah was sent back to the DuFaures, but they tried another route and got through.
(d) There were some close calls along the way.

15. What does the narrator say is troubling Julia in addition to the story about Vel d'Hiv'?
(a) Her health.
(b) Her pregnancy.
(c) Her parents' health.
(d) Her marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julia attend at rue Nélaton?

2. What does the letter talk about?

3. Gaspard gives Julia a letter--who was it written to?

4. What do the DuFaures try to do when the police come?

5. What does Julia consent to?

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