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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 14-year-old girl that Immaculee sitting next to her in the bathroom?

2. For what is Immaculee mistaken when she is nearly shot by an irrational and fearful girl?

3. For whom does Immaculee attempt and fail to pray immediately after thanking God for that which saved them from the killers' second search?

4. What is the name of Immaculee's mother?

5. What does Immaculee's name mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the message Immaculee receives from Psalm 91 when she first receives the Bible?

2. How does Immaculee finally make the transition from the private high school to the public high school?

3. What dominates the feelings of the University students regarding the Interahamwe and their activities in Butare?

4. What characterizes the women's stay in the bathroom, as related in "Confronting My Anger"?

5. What is the only promising news that Immaculee and her family hear during the first days of the genocide?

6. Of what does Pastor Murinzi accuse Immaculee's father and priest, Father Clement, in "No Friends to Turn To"?

7. How does Leonard react to finding 2,000 refugees from the slaughter of the Interahamwe outside his home?

8. How does Immaculee spend most of her time in the bathroom?

9. What mistake of judgment of character does Immaculee's father make, as related by Damscene in "The Pastor's House"?

10. What struggle does Immaculee encounter when the pastor tells her that Augustine and Vianney could not stay at his house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the moment of his greatest compassion, Pastor Murinzi, speaking to his children and pointing to the Tutsi women he has been hiding in his bathroom for over 90 days, tells them that "There but for the grace of God go any one of you." Analyze the significance of this statement in the context of the Rwandan genocide. What does the Pastor mean? How could the same thing have happened to any of his children? What does this statement reveal about the moral character of the pastor? What does it demonstrate about the pastor's understanding of the genocide? What does it show about the nature of genocide in general? What does it illuminate concerning the dignity of human life?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

While in the bathroom, surrounded by war, violence, and the death of loved ones, as well as a total evaporation of personal freedom, Immaculee finds a means to transcend the horror. Examine the concept of transcendence and the particular way in which Immaculee finds it, in a well-planned analytical essay. What is the nature of violence, war, and all such horrible things? In what sorts of experiences does one encounter these horrible things? Contrariwise, what does it mean to transcend? How does one transcend the horrible? In what sort of experiences does one encounter the transcendent? How does Immaculee find the transcendent? From what does it free her?

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