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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 name of the woman who had been hiding Malaba before she arrives at the pastor's house?

2. How many Tutsi were murdered in the genocide?

3. What is the first sentence that Immaculee learns to say in English?

4. To which Biblical figure does Aloise compare the Tutsi refugees surrounded by the Interahamwe killers upon her arrival at the roadblock?

5. Who in Rwanda demands English-speaking UN Peacekeepers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Immaculee hope her words can do for survivors of holocausts and for those subject to violence everywhere?

2. How does Damascene face his death?

3. How do the children of the pastor react to learning of the women who had been hiding in the pastor's bathroom?

4. For what reason does Immaculee believe the French would not slaughter the Tutsi people as the Hutu think they would?

5. What international efforts are described in "A Gathering of Orphans" about the Rwandan massacres?

6. How does Immaculee manage to get from the streets of Kigali into her dorm room in Butare?

7. Into what situation are the Tutsi survivors placed by the French on the road to the RPF troops?

8. What is Immaculee's reaction to seeing the deformed skull of her slain brother Damascene?

9. What does Immaculee see after her dream, as related in "Keeping the Faith," and what does she take it to mean?

10. How do Immaculee and the other Tutsi women make it past the Interahamwe in "The Pain of Freedom"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compose an analytical essay which carefully considers the message of forgiveness and its importance that Immaculee Ilibagiza promotes in her book Left to Tell. Why does she see forgiveness as so necessary? What is important about forgiveness? What does forgiveness give to men? What is the opposite of forgiveness, and how does it undermine man's good? How can men forgive one another? For what sorts of things do men need to forgive one another? What are some examples of forgiveness in the book? Where is forgiveness lacking, and how does it affect Rwanda?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

After all of the killing, destruction, and ruin that is wrought upon Rwanda by the genocidal killings of the Tutsi, Immaculee feels a strong need to return home and put the bodies of her loved ones to rest; she needs closure. Examine this natural human need to find closure in the deaths of loved ones. Why is closure important to human people? In what way does it help them? What does this indicate about human nature? What is the importance of death in human lives? How do human beings find closure? How does Immaculee find closure? In what way does it help her?

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