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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through No Going Back.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what tribe does the Protestant student Immaculee meets at the University belong?
(a) Hutu.
(b) He is a foreigner.
(c) Tutsi.
(d) Twa.

2. What are members of the Tutsi tribe often denied in the public sphere?
(a) Scholarships to schools.
(b) The right to military service.
(c) The right to own automobiles.
(d) Freedom of speech.

3. How far do Immaculee and her brothers walk to elementary school?
(a) A hundred yards.
(b) Eight miles.
(c) One mile.
(d) Four miles.

4. What is the name of the Tutsi girl Immaculee immediately befriends at the school?
(a) Elia.
(b) Clementine.
(c) Lycee.
(d) Buwana.

5. Of what year's killings does Immaculee have only one memory?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1981.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes with Immaculee to the pastor's house?

2. With what other tribe does the dominant Rwandan tribe intermarry over the course of many generations?

3. In what grade does Immaculee first experience ethnic segregation?

4. Which of Immaculee's relatives gives in to despair in "No Going Back"?

5. In what part of the country is the war in Rwanda primarily being fought while Immaculee is pursuing higher learning?

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