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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. Where is the university to which Immaculee is awarded a scholarship in "Off to University"?

2. In what style is the pastor's house built?

3. What is the first plate of food that the women receive after two days in hiding?

4. In what year does Immaculee learn about the Rwandan Patriotic Front?

5. Near what body of water does Immaculee's family own property on which they run a business?

Short Essay Questions

1. Under what condition does Immaculee's father allow her to date John, and why?

2. Why is Immaculee Ilibagiza initially denied a scholarship to high school?

3. What is the plan that Clementine devises in case the Tutsi were to be severely persecuted at the Lycee High School?

4. What is the message Immaculee receives from Psalm 91 when she first receives the Bible?

5. Why does the radio stations tell the Tutsi people to stay inside their homes during the early stages of the genocide?

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

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

8. Describe the setting in which Immaculee is raised in the early years of her life.

9. How do Immaculee's parents set a good communal example for her and her brothers?

10. How does Leonard react to finding 2,000 refugees from the slaughter of the Interahamwe outside his home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Left to Tell, as the story of one woman's survival of violent atrocities, can be seen as a conflict between two opposite forces: hate, embodied in the mindless, ravening Hutu Interahamwe killers, who dehumanize themselves through their own actions; and love, embodied in the gentleness and forgiveness of Immaculee Ilibagiza, who reaches a fuller human potential through her actions. Analyze this contrast in a comprehensive essay which takes into account the whole of the story. What is hate? What is love? How are they contraries? In what sorts of actions does each consist? How do actions of the former sort reduce one's humanity? How do actions of the latter type increase it? In what way does Immaculee embody love? In what way do the killers embody hate?

Essay Topic 2

A significant portion of what enables the Hutu government to enact the genocide is a constant, consistent, and habitual pattern of discrimination against the Tutsi. Discuss the effects of this discriminatory pattern in a thoughtful analytical essay. In what particular ways are the Tutsi discriminated against? How does this progressively lower their status in Hutu eyes? What respect is had for someone against whom there is habitual discrimination? In what ways are the Tutsi immediately affected by the discriminatory practices against them? How are they ultimately affected by them?

Essay Topic 3

Contrary to the love and peace that Immaculee finds amid her struggles is the deep hatred felt and exercised by many during the Rwandan genocide. Discuss this hatred in an analytical essay which answers the following questions: why are so many people given over to hate during the genocide? How does such hatred take hold of the hearts of otherwise good and normal people? How does hate transform people that have long been friends of Immaculee and her family? What does such hatred do to the rationality of people? How does hate lessen one's humanity?

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