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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 do the people at the door tell the girl's mother to do?
2. Who do the girl and her mother see in the street?
3. What does the girl receive from a stranger?
4. What does the concierge tell the police?
5. How is the family transported away from their neighborhood?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the girl and her mother treated as they leave the apartment building?
2. Describe the girl and her parents' departure for Beaune-la-Rolande.
3. Describe the girl's escape with Rachel.
4. Describe the conditions at Beaune-la-Rolande.
5. What restrictions have the Jews had to obey under the Vichy government?
6. How does the narrator say the girl and her mother react differently to the conditions at Beaune-la-Rolande?
7. What does pregnancy mean for Julia?
8. What does the girl do when the girls are separated from their mothers?
9. How does it happen that two members of the family do not go with the police?
10. Where are the girl and her parents sent to, before their final destination?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate your own reading of 'Sarah's Key'--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 2
What answer does the novel have for the depression that kills Sarah Rainsferd? Who else feels that despair, and how do they resolve it without committing suicide?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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