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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. Who proposes to escape?

2. What does the waiter at the café tell Julia and Bamber about?

3. Where do the girl and Rachel go from Beaune-la-Rolande?

4. What do the parents tell the girl?

5. What makes Julia worry when she gets pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does the narrator characterize Julia and Zoe?

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

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

10. How does it happen that two members of the family do not go with the police?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write an evaluative review of "Sarah's Key". What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of money does Julia Jaramond have, that she can afford so much travel in search of a dead person's stories? How does her wealth compare or contrast with the lower-class families who were rounded up at Vel d'Hiv'? Money is not mentioned explicitly in the novel, but how does it form an aspect of the historical context of the novel?

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