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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Roughly how long do the women in the bathroom go between stretching themselves?
(a) 8 hours.
(b) 12 hours.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 3 hours.

2. With whom is Immaculee traveling to a wedding when their bus is stopped by a mob of members of the youth movement?
(a) Damascene.
(b) David.
(c) Leonard.
(d) John.

3. With whom is Immaculee's companion on the trip home good friends?
(a) Damascene.
(b) Aimable.
(c) Augustine.
(d) Vianney.

4. In what part of the country is the war in Rwanda primarily being fought while Immaculee is pursuing higher learning?
(a) The east.
(b) The south.
(c) The west.
(d) The north.

5. What name do the two soldiers call the Tutsi people?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) Vermin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only member of Immaculee's family that does not greet her upon her arrival home?

2. What were Immaculee's parents both trained to be?

3. How many hours of electricity per day does Immaculee's family have?

4. Who treats Immaculee with contempt when she walks into the pastor's living room?

5. Of what youth movement does Immaculee learn while at the University?

Short Essay Questions

1. What exchange do Leonard and Immaculee make, and why is it significant?

2. How does the Hutu government initially justify the killing of Tutsi people?

3. How is Immaculee embarrassed on her first day at junior high school?

4. Against what does Immaculee recount arguing in "Struggling to Forgive"?

5. What struggle does Immaculee encounter when the pastor tells her that Augustine and Vianney could not stay at his house?

6. Why is Damascene downcast during Immaculee's return home at Easter?

7. Of what does Pastor Murinzi accuse Immaculee's father and priest, Father Clement, in "No Friends to Turn To"?

8. What sort of greetings do Immaculee and Augustine receive when they arrive at Pastor Murinzi's?

9. What mistake of judgment of character does Immaculee's father make, as related by Damscene in "The Pastor's House"?

10. Immaculee's Catholic faith is mentioned early and often in Left to Tell; how is she raised to perceive her faith?

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