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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 notable item does Immaculee find in a house nearby Aloise's?

2. What is the name of the housekeeper who gives Immaculee a detailed description of the death of her brother Damascene?

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

4. Which of the pastor's relatives does Immaculee hear speaking about murders of Tutsi outside the bathroom window at the beginning of "Unlikely Saviors"?

5. What are the first three words Immaculee says to Felicien?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the RPF soldiers greet Immaculee when she first arrives at the roadblock?

3. How does Damascene face his death?

4. Why does Immaculee say that John squandered the opportunity for love between them?

5. Why does Aloise offer Immaculee and her friends a place to stay in Kigali?

6. What does the French captain offer to Immaculee, and why does she reject it?

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

8. What characterizes Immaculee and Aimable's relationship with one another after the events of the genocide?

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

10. How does Immaculee finally manage to get a job working for the United Nations?

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

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

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?

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