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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 plaque at Vel d'Hiv' tell passersby?

2. What do the parents tell the girl?

3. How old is the girl's brother?

4. How old is the girl?

5. Why is Julia Jaramond looking forward to taking over Mame Tézac's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When and where does "Sarah's Key" take place?

4. What does the girl do when the girls are separated from their mothers?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What do the yellow stars signify?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Julia is dismayed by the ignorance surrounding Drancy and Vel d'Hiv', and she finds small plaques commemorating what took place there, but mostly she finds that people have moved on, and either do not remember or do not care about the past. What do you think is an appropriate form of memorializing the events of the roundup and the Holocaust? When is it appropriate for a place to 'move on' and when is it appropriate that should time remain stopped at the moment of the atrocities?

Essay Topic 3

How are Julia's pregnancy and her search for Sarah related? Is the pregnancy--and Bertrand's opposition to it--an opportunity for her to look into Sarah's story? Is Sarah's story a counterweight to balance her discomfort about her marriage?

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