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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. Where did Sarah go?

2. When did Sarah leave France?

3. Where does Julia travel to, in her search for Sarah?

4. What work did Sarah take in her new home?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Julia arrival at the Rainsferds house.

2. Describe Julia interaction with Eduard.

3. Describe the meeting with William Rainsferd.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way is "Sarah's Key" an allegorical novel? What does Julia's baby symbolize? What other symbols give "Sarah's Key" a deeper meaning than the literal? How does the novel teach a moral, or resolve a symbolic problem?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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