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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. What is the first sentence that Immaculee learns to say in English?
(a) "I am looking for my family."
(b) "I am Immaculee."
(c) "I am Tutsi."
(d) "I want a job."

2. With whom is Immaculee reunited in late 1995?
(a) Her Uncle Paul.
(b) Pastor Murinzi.
(c) Aimable.
(d) John.

3. Whom does Immaculee see for the first time since before the genocide, as related near the end of "The Gift of Tongues"?
(a) John.
(b) Vianney.
(c) Lechim.
(d) Damascene.

4. In what building do Immaculee and the other Tutsi refugees stay in the RPF camp?
(a) An old school.
(b) A concrete bunker.
(c) A large house.
(d) A Baptist church.

5. How many guards protect the borders of the French camp?
(a) 500.
(b) 30.
(c) 120.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. About which of her family members does Immaculee ask Pastor Murinzi at the end of "A Gathering of Orphans"?

2. What does Pierre give to Immaculee just before the refugees leave the French camp?

3. What happens to Immaculee when she sees brother's mutilated body?

4. For how long have the women been in Pastor Murinzi's bathroom when they decide to go to the UN Peacekeeping troops?

5. Which of the pastor's relatives does Immaculee hear speaking about murders of Tutsi outside the bathroom window at the beginning of "Unlikely Saviors"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Damascene face his death?

3. Why does Aloise offer Immaculee and her friends a place to stay in Kigali?

4. What does Immaculee hope her words can do for survivors of holocausts and for those subject to violence everywhere?

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

6. For what does the pastor ask the women to pray with him and why?

7. How do the RPF soldiers greet Immaculee when she first arrives at the roadblock?

8. Into what situation are the Tutsi survivors placed by the French on the road to the RPF troops?

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

10. What is the state of the city of Kigali when Immaculee and her friends arrive there after the war?

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