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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 Julia know instinctively about Mame Tézac's apartment?

2. Why is the girl angry with her father?

3. What do the police take from the women at Beaune-la-Rolande?

4. Where does the girl's parents' fear come from?

5. What do the police tell the people?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do the yellow stars signify?

4. What does Mame Tézac have to do with the events of the Vel d'Hiv' roundup?

5. Describe the girl's escape with Rachel.

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

7. Describe the conditions at Beaune-la-Rolande.

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

9. What kind of writing does Julia do?

10. How does the narrator characterize Julia and Zoe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Map out the two stories developed in "Sarah's Key", the Sarah story and the Julia story. Where do they depart, where do they overlap, where do they separate? Describe the problems and challenges associated with choosing a visual form for describing the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Evaluate your own reading of 'Sarah's Key'--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

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