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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 attend at rue Nélaton?

2. What was Rachel too weak for?

3. How does the narrator characterize the trip to Paris?

4. Where did Bertrand come home from?

5. Where does Julia go to meet Gaspard DuFaure?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe Julia arrival at the Rainsferds house.

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

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

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

8. What decision does Julia change her mind about?

9. Describe Julia's trip to Drancy.

10. Describe the meeting with William Rainsferd.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Debate the proposition that the parallel de Rosnay draws between the end of a woman's marriage and the death of a child's little brother in the Holocaust is offensive and demeaning to the experience of those who died in Europe in the 1940s. Or is it a way of honoring the depth of human emotion?

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