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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl do to take care of the other children?
(a) Finds food.
(b) Tells stories.
(c) Invents games.
(d) Steals from the guards.

2. What are the people ordered to do?
(a) Take their things to the entrance.
(b) Register with the authorities.
(c) Line up for inspection.
(d) Leave their things and get on trains.

3. How many Jews were deported from Vel d'Hiv' in July 1942?
(a) 130,000.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 1,300.
(d) 1.3 million.

4. Why is the girl angry with her father?
(a) She doesn't think he cares about her brother.
(b) She thinks he is preparing to abandon her.
(c) She resents his powerlessness.
(d) She wants him to fight for her.

5. What does the girl do when her father tells her what is happening?
(a) Cries.
(b) Passes out.
(c) Becomes hysterical.
(d) Runs away.

6. Who do the girl and her mother see in the street?
(a) Other professor's families.
(b) Other immigrants.
(c) Other Jews.
(d) Other political refugees.

7. What do the parents tell the girl?
(a) That the neighbors will find the boy.
(b) That the boy will die.
(c) That they will get the boy that night.
(d) That they are not going home.

8. When does the girl think she will see the boy again?
(a) At the end of the war.
(b) That night.
(c) Never.
(d) Within a few days.

9. What does the plaque at Vel d'Hiv' tell passersby?
(a) Never let this site be built on.
(b) Never forget.
(c) Never let the Germans forget.
(d) Never let this happen again.

10. How does the girl spend her time at the new location?
(a) Looking for food.
(b) Attempting to escape.
(c) Making friends.
(d) With her head between her knees.

11. What does the neighbor say as the girl and her mother leave?
(a) She threatens them.
(b) She objects to their treatment.
(c) She tells them that everything will be fine.
(d) She curses at them.

12. What does the narrator say the girl thinks about at her new location?
(a) Where her friends are.
(b) How her brother will escape from the cubby.
(c) When she will eat.
(d) Why she has to wear a yellow star.

13. Where are the people transported to?
(a) A bus station.
(b) A train station.
(c) Back home.
(d) A ghetto.

14. How does the girl change at Beaune-la-Rolande?
(a) She becomes placid.
(b) She hardens.
(c) She gets sick and becomes weak.
(d) She becomes fierce.

15. How does the narrator explain the fact that Bamber did not know anything about Vel d'Hiv'?
(a) She was British.
(b) She was old.
(c) She was not Jewish.
(d) She was young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the police take from the women at Beaune-la-Rolande?

2. What does the waiter at the café tell Julia and Bamber about?

3. What ailments were NOT among the ailments described as afflicting the people at the new location?

4. What is the girl's mother's reaction to this?

5. What does the girl receive from a stranger?

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