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

2. Roughly how long do the women in the bathroom go between stretching themselves?

3. Which member of her family does Immaculee pull aside to question privately?

4. With what weapon in hand does Immaculee's father charge at the Interahamwe alone?

5. What is the name of the pastor's son with whom he argues in the bedroom near the bathroom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who makes up the populace of the Rwandese Patriotic Front, or RPF?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Rwandan Holocaust could never have happened had it not been for the state-operated propaganda campaigns. Analyze these propaganda campaigns as they are portrayed throughout Left to Tell. What sort of propaganda is put forth immediately before the genocide? Through what mediums does this campaign achieve its goal? What techniques are employed by such propaganda? What is the broader propaganda campaign that makes the genocide possible, and how is it put into place? What could the Tutsi people do against such propaganda? What are the ultimate effects of the propaganda campaigns?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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