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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. For how long have the women been in Pastor Murinzi's bathroom when they decide to go to the UN Peacekeeping troops?
(a) Three months.
(b) Five months.
(c) Two months.
(d) Nine weeks.

2. What is the profession of Dr. Abel, whom Immaculee encounters on the streets of Kigali?
(a) Doctor of chemical engineering.
(b) Doctor of mass communication.
(c) Doctor of philosophy.
(d) Doctor of medicine.

3. To whom does the pastor intend to send the women in his bathroom after the war?
(a) The Twa.
(b) The Hutu.
(c) The Burundi.
(d) The Abashi.

4. How many Tutsi refugees are in the French camp when Operation Turquoise comes to a close?
(a) 12.
(b) 23.
(c) 30.
(d) 18.

5. What is the name of the Tutsi survivor Immaculee speaks with in the French field encampment?
(a) Sembach.
(b) Jean Paul.
(c) David.
(d) Roman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Damascene's Hutu friend with whom he initially stays?

2. How many Tutsi were murdered in the genocide?

3. Which of the pastor's children do not receive the Tutsi women with sympathy?

4. What does the captain of the French troops offer to Immaculee shortly after discovering she can speak French fluently?

5. For how long have the women been in the bathroom at the beginning of "The Gift of Tongues"?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Immaculee believe the French would not slaughter the Tutsi people as the Hutu think they would?

2. What characterizes Immaculee and Aimable's relationship with one another after the events of the genocide?

3. What does Immaculee find those in her town lacking that she had maintained when she visits home to put her mother's and brother's bodies to rest?

4. What does the French captain offer to Immaculee, and why does she reject it?

5. How do the children of the pastor react to learning of the women who had been hiding in the pastor's bathroom?

6. How does Immaculee finally manage to get a job working for the United Nations?

7. How do Immaculee and the other Tutsi women make it past the Interahamwe in "The Pain of Freedom"?

8. What international efforts are described in "A Gathering of Orphans" about the Rwandan massacres?

9. What is Immaculee's reaction to seeing the deformed skull of her slain brother Damascene?

10. Why do the Hutu think that the French coming to Rwanda would be a boon to their genocidal efforts?

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