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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 do the girl and her mother see in the street?

2. What does the girl receive from a stranger?

3. What does the concierge tell the police?

4. What does the girl do when her father tells her what is happening?

5. What do the parents tell the girl?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the girl's escape with Rachel.

3. What lead does Julia get for gathering more information about Vel d'Hiv' during her trip there?

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

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

6. What does pregnancy mean for Julia?

7. Where do the girl and Rachel go after 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 describe the site of Vel d'Hiv'?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What are the traits that distinguish characters like Gaspard DuFaure, William Rainsferd and Julia Jaramond from the others? How do these characters typically get along with the others? What allows them to take things seriously that the other characters do not want to talk about?

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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