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

2. How does the narrator describe how people felt about the girl's family?
(a) They were not noticed.
(b) They were loved.
(c) They were treated suspected as spies.
(d) They were reviled.

3. How does the narrator describe the conditions at Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) Spartan.
(b) Improving.
(c) Luxurious.
(d) Inhuman.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mother tell the girl?

2. Who proposes to escape?

3. What does the plaque at Vel d'Hiv' tell passersby?

4. What does the neighbor say as the girl and her mother leave?

5. How does the mother change at Beaune-la-Rolande?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of writing does Julia do?

2. Where are the girl and her parents sent to, before their final destination?

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

4. What are conditions like at the location where the buses take the girl and her mother?

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

6. How does it happen that two members of the family do not go with the police?

7. How does the narrator characterize Julia and Zoe?

8. What do the yellow stars signify?

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

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

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