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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. Which of the pastor's children do not receive the Tutsi women with sympathy?

2. What is the name of the Protestant pastor who shames the young men who caught Damascene?

3. For how many hours a day does Immaculee meditate, as stated in "A Gathering of Orphans"?

4. In what do Sarah and Immaculee travel to Mataba with Colonel Gueye?

5. What is the profession of Dr. Abel, whom Immaculee encounters on the streets of Kigali?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Hutu think that the French coming to Rwanda would be a boon to their genocidal efforts?

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

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

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

5. What does Immaculee find those in her town lacking that she had maintained when she visits home to put her mother's and brother's bodies to rest?

6. What is the state of the city of Kigali when Immaculee and her friends arrive there after the war?

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

8. What do Major Ntwali do for Immaculee and her friends in "On to Kigali"?

9. Where is the French base camp set up, and who does Immaculee find there?

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

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

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

After having escaped the hellish bathroom in which she is imprisoned for three months, Immaculee learns to become grateful for even the simplest and most mundane of pleasures. Examine this relativity of the quality of life in a thoughtful and considerate essay. What is meant by the phrase "quality of life"? How does one judge or determine the quality of life? In what things, actions, or possibilities does one's quality of life consist? How does this judgment shift according to circumstances and situations? How does it shift for Immaculee? What does this demonstrate about human nature and human living?

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