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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. How many hours journey is it from the RPF camp to Kigali?

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

3. How many Tutsi were murdered in the genocide?

4. Which of the pastor's children gives Immaculee a hug?

5. Where does Immaculee volunteer in Kigali while she is working there at the UN?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. For what does the pastor ask the women to pray with him and why?

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

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

7. 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"?

8. Why does Immaculee attempt to teach herself English while hiding in the bathroom?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Humble, pious, loving--what other words could be used to describe Immaculee Ilibagiza? Drawing upon instances from the text, as well as the message she promotes within it, analyze the moral character and personality of Immaculee. What are her strengths as a person? What particular actions show her strengths? How does she develop these strengths during her experiences in the Rwandan holocaust? In what ways is she weak, and how is that shown in the text? What are her principal character traits? What struggles has she faced in her life? How has she overcome these struggles? How does the message she promotes in Left to Tell corroborate her life experiences? What is demonstrated about her character through the relationships she built with other people?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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