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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. How many Tutsi were murdered in the genocide?
(a) 750,000.
(b) 1,200,000
(c) 1,000,000.
(d) 250,000

2. From what country is the general of the UN Peacekeepers who remained behind after the Belgian soldiers pulled out?
(a) Germany.
(b) Canada.
(c) France.
(d) The United States.

3. What is the name of the mixed good and evil Hutu with whom the two male Tutsi survivors in the French field encampment hide during the genocide?
(a) Laurent.
(b) Jean Baptiste.
(c) Jean Paul.
(d) Roman.

4. Where does Immaculee volunteer in Kigali while she is working there at the UN?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A homeless shelter.
(c) An orphanage.
(d) An elementary school.

5. What does the pastor show the Tutsi women to give them a respite from their long confinement in the bathroom?
(a) A news report of the Peacekeepers.
(b) A movie.
(c) A stockpile of food and medicine.
(d) Pictures of the Peacekeepers arriving in Kibuye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Protestant pastor who shames the young men who caught Damascene?

2. What is the first sentence that Immaculee learns to say in English?

3. How many guards protect the borders of the French camp?

4. What is the name of Damascene's Hutu friend with whom he initially stays?

5. How many Tutsi refugees are in the French camp when Operation Turquoise comes to a close?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Immaculee find those in her town lacking that she had maintained when she visits home to put her mother's and brother's bodies to rest?

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

3. 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"?

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

5. What does Immaculee see after her dream, as related in "Keeping the Faith," and what does she take it to mean?

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

7. What do Major Ntwali do for Immaculee and her friends in "On to Kigali"?

8. How do Immaculee and the other Tutsi women make it past the Interahamwe in "The Pain of Freedom"?

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

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

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