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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. Which of the Tutsi women is the only one who knows how to speak French when they arrive at the gate of the field encampment?
(a) Immaculee.
(b) Claire.
(c) Athanasia.
(d) Solange.

2. What is the name of the mixed good and evil Hutu with whom the two male Tutsi survivors in the French field encampment hide during the genocide?
(a) Roman.
(b) Jean Paul.
(c) Jean Baptiste.
(d) Laurent.

3. What does Pierre give to Immaculee just before the refugees leave the French camp?
(a) A book.
(b) A picture of the two of them.
(c) Pen and paper for her memoir.
(d) His address in France.

4. What does the captain of the French troops offer to Immaculee shortly after discovering she can speak French fluently?
(a) To march on Kigali with all the Tutsi.
(b) To search for every Tutsi in the region.
(c) To kill any Hutu she wants dead.
(d) To aid the RPF in overthrowing the government.

5. Why does the French captain deposit the Tutsi refugees on the road barely halfway to the RPF camp when he hears reports of gunfire in the area?
(a) He is afraid of conflict with the RPF.
(b) His truck breaks down.
(c) He is given orders to avoid fighting at all costs.
(d) He is afraid of conflict with the Hutu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Immaculee put in her mouth to keep from making a noise in "Keeping the Faith"?

2. What does Immaculee track within Rwanda in her first job at the UN?

3. What does Immaculee see on the door of the bathroom after having her vision of Christ?

4. In what building do Immaculee and the other Tutsi refugees stay in the RPF camp?

5. While in Kigali, where does Immaculee go to pray and meditate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What prevents Damascene from staying with good friends who would have hidden him and helped him to escape the country, leading to his death, as is recounted in "A Letter from Damascene"?

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

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

5. Why does Immaculee attempt to teach herself English while hiding in the bathroom?

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

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

8. How does Damascene face his death?

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

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

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