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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. What weapon are the Hutu encouraged to use against their Tutsi neighbors in "No Going Back"?

2. In what part of the country is the war in Rwanda primarily being fought while Immaculee is pursuing higher learning?

3. In what village does Immaculee grow up?

4. What does Immaculee's family do to aid their income?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What characterizes Immaculee's life at the University?

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

3. Why is Immaculee's father arrested and how is he treated?

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

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

6. What realization does Immaculee have which finally enables her to forgive the killers?

7. What does Immaculee's father do to ensure she receives a high school education, and why is it significant?

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

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

10. What is the only promising news that Immaculee and her family hear during the first days of the genocide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The group upon whose doorstop most of the blame for the actual killings during the genocide has been laid is the Interahamwe. Analyze the culpability of the group, as well as its essence, in a carefully written analytical essay. Who are the Interahamwe? What sort of people comprise the Interahamwe? What characterizes these people? In what sort of actions and pleasures do they indulge? What is their relationship to reasonable proceedings? What does this indicate about the essence of the Interahamwe? In what way does this mitigate their culpability? How is this yet far from absolving the members of the Interahamwe?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Immaculee Ilibagiza most certainly would not have gotten through the genocide in the manner that she does, nor have become the person she is today, if not for the strength and quality of her family. Analyze the concept of family, through the exemplars presented in Left to Tell, in a well-developed essay. What is a family? What is the function of a family in society? What is the function of a family for an individual? What should an individual gain from growing up within in a family? What does Immaculee gain from growing up in her family? What does each member of her family contribute to her character? How does her family make her a better person?

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