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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 does Gaspard DuFaure ask Julia?

2. What does Sarah find when she gets back to her apartment?

3. What does Julia tell Bertrand about the baby?

4. What does the narrator say about children surviving the deportations and camps?

5. What does Julia attend at rue Nélaton?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize the interactions between Julia and Bamber during their trip to Vel d'Hiv'.

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

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

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

5. Describe Julia interaction with Eduard.

6. What does Eduard send to Julia, and what does she learn from it?

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

8. Describe the meeting with William Rainsferd.

9. What is the tone of the book, up to the point of Julia finding out about Sarah from Eduard?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Map out the two stories developed in "Sarah's Key", the Sarah story and the Julia story. Where do they depart, where do they overlap, where do they separate? Describe the problems and challenges associated with choosing a visual form for describing the novel.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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