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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 housekeeper who gives Immaculee a detailed description of the death of her brother Damascene?

2. What language are most of the Rwandans taught in high-school as a second language?

3. How many Tutsi were murdered in the genocide?

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

5. With whom is Immaculee reunited in late 1995?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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