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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 job did Myriam dream about having?

2. Where did Ephraim and Emma go after the police initally came to arrest him?

3. What was Lélia doing that made the postcard feel like a threat?

4. Who does Emma teach?

5. Who helped the Rabinovitch family find their first home in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Myriam get through the checkpoints with Vicente's mother and sister?

2. Why did Ephraïm register with the French government as a Jewish person?

3. Why did Ephraïm and Emma travel to Pesach?

4. What happened when Anne spoke to her daughter's principal?

5. Why were Noémi and Jacques taken to Auschwitz before their parents?

6. In the dialogue between a grandmother and child, what does the child reveal?

7. How did Lélia learn so much about her family?

8. What did Ephraïm do after learning about Germany's new chancellor?

9. How did Lélia learn that Noémi worked in the infirmary?

10. What does Anne tell Georges in the letter she writes to him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of the novel, Georges suggests that he and Anne name their child after Myriam's siblings. Anne declines, saying that their child should have a name that is all its own. Why do you think Anne makes this decision?

Essay Topic 2

How did Lélia's childhood compare to Anne's? What did they have in common? Why did both struggle with a sense of identity?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the characters in The Postcard to analyze. Consider the character's development over the course of the novel as well as the character's changing motivation and goals.

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