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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far does Immaculee and her two friends walk with the Interahamwe killers circling them?
(a) Half a mile.
(b) Three miles.
(c) A mile and a half.
(d) Four miles.

2. Which of the following is a name belonging to one of Immaculee's aunts that she encounters in the French base camp?
(a) Anne.
(b) Espancee.
(c) Clara.
(d) Jeanne.

3. What is the first sentence that Immaculee learns to say in English?
(a) "I want a job."
(b) "I am Tutsi."
(c) "I am Immaculee."
(d) "I am looking for my family."

4. What does Immaculee see on the door of the bathroom after having her vision of Christ?
(a) A cross.
(b) The face of the devil.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) A brilliant star.

5. For how long have the women been in Pastor Murinzi's bathroom when they decide to go to the UN Peacekeeping troops?
(a) Two months.
(b) Three months.
(c) Five months.
(d) Nine weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Immaculee's husband?

2. To where does Aloise offer to take Immaculee and her companions from the French base camp?

3. What does Pierre give to Immaculee just before the refugees leave the French camp?

4. From what country is the general of the UN Peacekeepers who remained behind after the Belgian soldiers pulled out?

5. How many Tutsi were murdered in the genocide?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What prevents Damascene from staying with good friends who would have hidden him and helped him to escape the country, leading to his death, as is recounted in "A Letter from Damascene"?

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

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