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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 consent to?

2. When did Sarah leave France?

3. What is Julia dismayed by during this next stop?

4. Where do Julia and Guillaume make a trip to?

5. What does the narrator say is troubling Julia in addition to the story about Vel d'Hiv'?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the meeting with William Rainsferd.

2. What is Julia's state of mind as she plans to travel to Tuscany?

3. Describe Julia interaction with Eduard.

4. How does the narrator characterize the interactions between Julia and Bamber during their trip to Vel d'Hiv'.

5. How does Julia's pregnancy affect her feelings about Sarah's history?

6. What does Eduard send to Julia, and what does she learn from it?

7. What is Bertrand's response when he hears that Julia is not aborting the baby?

8. What does the narrator say Julia is troubled by?

9. What does Franck Lévy tell Julia Jaramond about the Tézacs' apartment?

10. What decision does Julia change her mind about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The ending of "Sarah's Key" gets a bit chaotic, as a lot of family drama comes to a head, and Julia's marriage ends, and her mother-in-law dies after the big realization that the Tézac family was related to Sarah's story. Evaluate the proposition that this jumble of action and plot resolution is a flaw in the novel, and that the convolutions dispel the force of the realizations. Does this book end up being about Julia's marriage and in-law family drama, with Sarah's story being just dressing?

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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