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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. In what style is the pastor's house built?
(a) Asian.
(b) American.
(c) European.
(d) Rwandan.

2. With whom is Immaculee's companion on the trip home good friends?
(a) Damascene.
(b) Aimable.
(c) Augustine.
(d) Vianney.

3. Which Rwandan tribe makes up the majority of the population during Immaculee's childhood?
(a) The Twa.
(b) The Rwanda.
(c) The Tutsi.
(d) The Hutu.

4. What is the name of Vianney's high school teacher who arrives at Pastor Murinzi's house?
(a) Nzima.
(b) Richard.
(c) Sotomi.
(d) Buhoro.

5. To which ethnic group is Immaculee assigned during her first experience of ethnic segregation?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Twa.
(c) Hutu.
(d) Tutsi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what youth movement does Immaculee learn while at the University?

2. Whom does Immaculee hear outside saying "I really don't care if they find her and kill her," referring to Immaculee?

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

4. What name do the two soldiers call the Tutsi people?

5. For what reason is Immaculee's father arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Immaculee's parents set a good communal example for her and her brothers?

2. What is Augustine's relationship to Immaculee's family?

3. What exchange do Leonard and Immaculee make, and why is it significant?

4. Against what does Immaculee recount arguing in "Struggling to Forgive"?

5. Why does the radio stations tell the Tutsi people to stay inside their homes during the early stages of the genocide?

6. Why is Immaculee Ilibagiza initially denied a scholarship to high school?

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

8. What is the opinion of Sembeba, the pastor's son, concerning the Tutsi?

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

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

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