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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. What message did Bertrand get when he returned home?

3. Where does Sirka hide when the police come?

4. What does Sirka/Sarah tell the DuFaures after Rachel was taken?

5. Where do Julia and Bamber travel next?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Julia's trip to Drancy.

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

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

5. What clue remains unexplored even after Julia finds out that Sarah died?

6. What point in the development of the plot does this moment signify?

7. What does Julia learn about Sarah during her trip to Orléans.

8. Describe the meeting with William Rainsferd.

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

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

What is the significance of Bertrand's mid-life crisis? Is it a convenient mechanism for removing him from Julia's live, to make room for William Rainsferd, or is it a metaphor for the inability to arrive at a mature acceptance of life's painful complexities?

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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