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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 is Julia looking forward to doing?

2. Where did Sarah go?

3. What do Julia and Guillaume find at their destination?

4. What does this information about Sarah inspire in Julia?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Julia learn from Sarah's wedding announcement?

2. What are the contents of the letter Gaspard DuFaure gives Julia?

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

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

5. Describe Julia interaction with Eduard.

6. Describe Sarah's return to her apartment.

7. Where doe Julia travel to in the U.S. in her search for Sarah?

8. What does Franck Lévy show Julia, and what does it make her feel?

9. What decision does Julia change her mind about?

10. What does Julia decide to do about her pregnancy and her marriage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Julia Jaramond is an American who has spent twenty-five years in France, and Sarah Starzynski is a Polish Jew living in Paris. Describe the importance, in "Sarah's Key", of nationality and home. Who feels 'at home' and how are these characters different from characters who have a different relationship with place?

Essay Topic 3

Would you recommend "Sarah's Key"? For what purposes would you recommend "Sarah's Key", and what kinds of readers would you not recommend it? What book would you recommend that would cover the same material or provide the same emotional experience in a different way?

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