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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. Who is Mara Rainsferd?

2. What is Charla's relation to Bertrand?

3. When did Sarah stop corresponding with the DuFaures?

4. What does the curator at the Memorial Museum tell Julia?

5. Why are the DuFaures worried about Rachel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decision does Julia change her mind about?

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

3. Describe Sarah's return to her apartment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Julia Jaramond is an American who has spent twenty-five years in France, and Sarah Starzynski is a Polish Jew living in Paris. Describe the importance, in "Sarah's Key", of nationality and home. Who feels 'at home' and how are these characters different from characters who have a different relationship with place?

Essay Topic 3

How well made is "Sarah's Key" as a novel? Is it tight, with artful use of theme, motif, metaphor and imagery? Or does it wander, with images and themes coming up and disappearing over time? Does the novel's construction seem deliberate and artful or something else?

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