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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 tell Bertrand about the baby?

2. Where does Julia go to meet the person Mara Rainsferd gave her contact info for?

3. How does Gaspard DuFaure characterize Sarah?

4. What do the DuFaures try to do when the police come?

5. Who does Julia Jaramond tell Franck Lévy's information to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Sarah's return to her apartment.

2. What is the tone of the book, up to the point of Julia finding out about Sarah from Eduard?

3. Describe the meeting with William Rainsferd.

4. Describe Rachel's arrest at the DuFaures'.

5. Describe Julia arrival at the Rainsferds house.

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

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

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

9. What happens to Julia after her meeting with William Rainsferd?

10. Describe Julia's trip to Drancy.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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