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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 did Julia receive from the person she met at the nursing home?
(a) Letters from Sarah to his father.
(b) The key to the cubby where Sarah's brother died.
(c) Photos of Sarah.
(d) A file on Sarah.

2. Where does Julia go to meet the person Mara Rainsferd gave her contact info for?
(a) Marseilles.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Brussels.
(d) Tuscany.

3. What does the letter talk about?
(a) Sarah's charity work.
(b) Sarah's heartache.
(c) Sarah's art.
(d) Sarah's parents.

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

5. How do the DuFaures respond to what Sarah tells them?
(a) They say that they did the best they could.
(b) They offer to take her themselves.
(c) They say that it wasn't their crime, and they were powerless to prevent it.
(d) They say that the times are bad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarah find when she gets back to her apartment?

2. Where does Julia go to meet Gaspard DuFaure?

3. What does Franck Lévy tell Julia Jaramond about the family at 26 rue de Saintonge in July 1942?

4. What does the narrator say about children surviving the deportations and camps?

5. Where is Sarah?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Julia decide to do about her pregnancy and her marriage?

3. Describe Julia arrival at the Rainsferds house.

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

5. What is Bertrand's response when he hears that Julia is not aborting the baby?

6. Describe Julia's trip to Drancy.

7. What does the narrator say Julia is troubled by?

8. How does the narrator characterize the interactions between Julia and Bamber during their trip to Vel d'Hiv'.

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

10. What does Franck Lévy show Julia, and what does it make her feel?

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