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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 Bertrand tell Julia about having a child?

2. How does the narrator characterize the trip to Paris?

3. What does Julia tell Charla?

4. Where is Sarah?

5. Where does Charla locate Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Rainsferd?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Julia's state of mind as she plans to travel to Tuscany?

5. Describe Rachel's arrest at the DuFaures'.

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

7. What does Julia learn from Sarah's wedding announcement?

8. Describe Julia interaction with Eduard.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of "Sarah's Key". What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Julia Jaramond is an American who has spent twenty-five years in France, and Sarah Starzynski is a Polish Jew living in Paris. Describe the importance, in "Sarah's Key", of nationality and home. Who feels 'at home' and how are these characters different from characters who have a different relationship with place?

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