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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. When did Sarah leave France?

2. Who calls Julia to say that Mr. DuFaure would like to meet with her?

3. What is Julia's interview like, with the person Mara Rainsferd put her in touch with?

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

5. What does Bamber notice about Julia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What decision does Julia change her mind about?

4. Describe Sarah's return to her apartment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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