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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the concierge tell the police?

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

3. How did the restrictions affect the girl?

4. When is "Sarah's Key" set?

5. What do the police tell the people?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the girl and her parents arrive at Beaune-la-Rolande?

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

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

4. How does the narrator characterize Julia and Zoe?

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

6. What do the girl and her mother take with them when they leave their home?

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

8. Where do the girl and Rachel go after Beaune-la-Rolande?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Would you recommend "Sarah's Key"? For what purposes would you recommend "Sarah's Key", and what kinds of readers would you not recommend it? What book would you recommend that would cover the same material or provide the same emotional experience in a different way?

Essay Topic 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

Debate the proposition that the parallel de Rosnay draws between the end of a woman's marriage and the death of a child's little brother in the Holocaust is offensive and demeaning to the experience of those who died in Europe in the 1940s. Or is it a way of honoring the depth of human emotion?

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