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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 is the pastor's relation to Immaculee's boyfriend, John?

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

3. What is the name of Pastor Murinzi's youngest son?

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

5. How many Tutsi women does Pastor Murinzi crowd into the room with Immaculee?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Of what does Pastor Murinzi accuse Immaculee's father and priest, Father Clement, in "No Friends to Turn To"?

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

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

6. Against what does Immaculee recount arguing in "Struggling to Forgive"?

7. What is the ethnic atmosphere in which Immaculee finds herself at Lycee High School?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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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