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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 does Immaculee's family do to aid their income?

2. After Immaculee hears the voice of God, how does she perceive the killers?

3. What is the name of the 14-year-old girl that Immaculee sitting next to her in the bathroom?

4. Who treats Immaculee with contempt when she walks into the pastor's living room?

5. How many cows does Immaculee's father sell in order to pay for her schooling?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Immaculee, while traveling to a wedding with Damascene, pass by the Interahamwe roadblock?

2. What characterizes the women's stay in the bathroom, as related in "Confronting My Anger"?

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

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

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

6. How does the Hutu government initially justify the killing of Tutsi people?

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

8. What dominates the feelings of the University students regarding the Interahamwe and their activities in Butare?

9. How do the six women manage to fit into the tiny bathroom?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

For Immaculee's survival, as well as the survival of the other seven Tutsi women she shares the bathroom with, no human person can be given more credit than Pastor Murinzi. Yet he is not a perfect person during the genocide. Examine the conflict which tears at the pastor and how he reacts to it, in a thoughtful and insightful analytical essay. What risks does the pastor take on behalf of the women? What risks does he not take? What is significant about the length of the risk he takes? What would have happened to the pastor had he been found out? What would have happened to the pastor had he turned the women away? What is shown about the moral character of the pastor through his actions during the genocide?

Essay Topic 3

As she, along with several other women, spend months in hiding in the bathroom, Immaculee lives in a sort of constant fear. Examine this fear in a well-organized essay that, using sources from the text, describes the nature of such a constant fear. What effects does it have on the person? How does it alter one's thinking, one's actions, and one's mentality? How does Immaculee in particular react to the constant fear? What are the sources of the fear? What factors contribute to this constant state of fear? When is the fear at its worst? How does such fear change over time?

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