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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Immaculee's parents both trained to be?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Educators.
(d) Weavers.

2. For what is Immaculee mistaken when she is nearly shot by an irrational and fearful girl?
(a) A European.
(b) A monster.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A man.

3. What is the first plate of food that the women receive after two days in hiding?
(a) Corn and cold beef.
(b) Potatoes and beans.
(c) Beets and cabbage.
(d) Bread and honey.

4. Approximately how large is the bathroom in which Immaculee and the other Tutsi women hide?
(a) Six by six feet.
(b) Four by five feet.
(c) Three by four feet.
(d) Three by eight feet.

5. What is Immaculee's father holding in his hand as he addresses the crowd gathered outside of their home?
(a) A gun.
(b) A rosary.
(c) A Bible.
(d) A machete.

6. Which tribe came to be the dominant ruling class because of others fleeing ethnic persecution?
(a) The Tutsi.
(b) The Rwana.
(c) The Twa.
(d) The Hutu.

7. How many daughters are born to Immaculee's parents?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

8. Who is the only member of Immaculee's family that does not greet her upon her arrival home?
(a) Damascene.
(b) Leonard.
(c) Vianney.
(d) Aimable.

9. At what age does Immaculee graduate from her mother's schoolhouse?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Eight.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Ten.

10. What is the name of the 14-year-old girl that Immaculee sitting next to her in the bathroom?
(a) Claire.
(b) Beata.
(c) Therese.
(d) Athanasia.

11. Who else does the pastor falsely accuse, on the authority of the government, of stockpiling weapons to kill members of the Hutu?
(a) Kageyo.
(b) John.
(c) Lechim.
(d) Father Clement.

12. Which of the following is NOT among the things Pastor Murinzi is told were hidden in Immaculee's father's house?
(a) A death list of Hutu names.
(b) A stockpile of guns.
(c) A stockpile of grenades.
(d) A stockpile of machetes.

13. With whom is Immaculee traveling to a wedding when their bus is stopped by a mob of members of the youth movement?
(a) Damascene.
(b) John.
(c) Leonard.
(d) David.

14. What does the negative voice in Immaculee's head tell her she is acting like whenever she prays to God?
(a) A liar.
(b) A fool.
(c) A saint.
(d) A bumpkin.

15. How many girls in Immaculee's family had attended university before her?
(a) Two.
(b) Zero.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date when Immaculee learns of the president's plane being shot down?

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

3. What are members of the Tutsi tribe often denied in the public sphere?

4. What is the name of Immaculee's University roommate?

5. What is the name of the Hutu who protects Immaculee from the crowd at the end of "No Going back"?

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