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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the neighbor say as the girl and her mother leave?
(a) She objects to their treatment.
(b) She threatens them.
(c) She tells them that everything will be fine.
(d) She curses at them.

2. What does the concierge tell the police?
(a) To go to Hell.
(b) Where to find other Jews.
(c) That the girl and her mother are not Jewish.
(d) To treat the girl and her mother well.

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

4. What is Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) A concentration camp.
(b) A prison.
(c) A holding camp.
(d) A ghetto.

5. What does the narrator say the girl thinks about at her new location?
(a) Why she has to wear a yellow star.
(b) Where her friends are.
(c) How her brother will escape from the cubby.
(d) When she will eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the people ordered to do?

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

3. What does the girl think this predicament has to do with?

4. Who is at the door when there is a knock?

5. How do the girl's parents react when they hear about the boy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the girl and her parents' departure for Beaune-la-Rolande.

2. What is the larger context for the story, and how does the story clue us in to that larger context?

3. How are the girl and her mother treated as they leave the apartment building?

4. What restrictions have the Jews had to obey under the Vichy government?

5. Describe Julia Jaramond's relationship with her husband.

6. How does the narrator say the girl and her mother react differently to the conditions at Beaune-la-Rolande?

7. How does the narrator describe the site of Vel d'Hiv'?

8. What lead does Julia get for gathering more information about Vel d'Hiv' during her trip there?

9. What does the girl do when the girls are separated from their mothers?

10. What is the opening scene of "Sarah's Key".

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