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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 work did Sarah take in her new home?

2. How do the DuFaures respond to what Sarah tells them?

3. Who does Julia Jaramond tell Franck Lévy's information to?

4. What does this information about Sarah inspire in Julia?

5. What is Julia dismayed by during this next stop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decision does Julia change her mind about?

2. Describe Julia's trip to Drancy.

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

4. What are the contents of the letter Gaspard DuFaure gives Julia?

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

6. What point in the development of the plot does this moment signify?

7. What does Julia learn about Sarah during her trip to Orléans.

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

9. Describe the meeting with William Rainsferd.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of cultural identity in "Sarah's Key"? Certain characters are persecuted for their purported identities as Jews, but how do characters create or preserve their identities in a positive sense? What does identity add to people's lives? What are they willing to give up to preserve it? How does Judaism, Frenchness, Americanness, etc. figure in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Would you recommend "Sarah's Key"? For what purposes would you recommend "Sarah's Key", and what kinds of readers would you not recommend it? What book would you recommend that would cover the same material or provide the same emotional experience in a different way?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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