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

2. Where did Bertrand come home from?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Brussels.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

3. What does Bertrand say he's going through?
(a) Growing pains.
(b) A mid-life crisis.
(c) Withdrawal.
(d) A painful transition.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What message did Bertrand get when he returned home?

2. What does the narrator say is troubling Julia in addition to the story about Vel d'Hiv'?

3. What does Julia tell Bertrand about the baby?

4. What does Nathalie DuFaure tell Julia she found?

5. When does this person at the nursing home meet Sarah?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Julia arrival at the Rainsferds house.

2. Describe Rachel's arrest at the DuFaures'.

3. What clue remains unexplored even after Julia finds out that Sarah died?

4. What is Julia's state of mind as she plans to travel to Tuscany?

5. Describe Julia's trip to Drancy.

6. What decision does Julia change her mind about?

7. Describe Sarah's return to her apartment.

8. What happens to Julia after her meeting with William Rainsferd?

9. What does Julia learn from Sarah's wedding announcement?

10. What point in the development of the plot does this moment signify?

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