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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. Of what year's killings does Immaculee have only one memory?

2. Which tribe had once had a king that ruled the land prosperously and peacefully?

3. In what village does Immaculee grow up?

4. What is Immaculee's father holding in his hand as he addresses the crowd gathered outside of their home?

5. With whom is Immaculee's companion on the trip home good friends?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What sort of content on the radio does Immaculee hear daily while she is at the University in Butare?

3. What does the pastor tell the women he would do for them in "Farewell to the Boys"?

4. What is the opinion of Sembeba, the pastor's son, concerning the Tutsi?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consumed with fear and overwhelmed with propaganda, many of the people in Immaculee's life, who are otherwise good people, are at times given over to irrational states of mind. Using numerous examples from the text, explicate how irrationality takes hold of a person's mind and what the effects are. Whom does Immaculee encounter in states of irrationality? How do these people become irrational? What sources contribute to their irrationality? What sorts of things do they believe, and how does this show them as lacking in rationality? What are the consequences of their irrational thinking and behavior?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the story of Left to Tell, and sometimes amid the very worst of the horrors, Immaculee recounts instances of great generosity and charity. Discuss the significance of such benevolence in the midst of tragedy in a well-developed analytical essay. Why are some people still so generous? What does this indicate about such people? How does generosity breed more generosity? How is charity similar? How does charity affect those who are its recipients? How does it affect society as a whole? What roles do generosity and charity play in both the events during the holocaust and immediately following it?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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