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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 far does Immaculee and her two friends walk with the Interahamwe killers circling them?
(a) Three miles.
(b) A mile and a half.
(c) Four miles.
(d) Half a mile.

2. How many Interahamwe confront the 30 Tutsi refugees after they are deposited by the French truck?
(a) 10.
(b) 50.
(c) 15.
(d) 100.

3. What does Pierre give to Immaculee just before the refugees leave the French camp?
(a) Pen and paper for her memoir.
(b) A picture of the two of them.
(c) His address in France.
(d) A book.

4. What language are most of the Rwandans taught in high-school as a second language?
(a) Spanish.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) French.

5. With whom is Immaculee reunited in late 1995?
(a) John.
(b) Pastor Murinzi.
(c) Her Uncle Paul.
(d) Aimable.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Immaculee's husband?

3. What notable item does Immaculee find in a house nearby Aloise's?

4. What does Immaculee's family friend Kayitare bring to the burial of her relatives?

5. To which apostle does Immaculee appeal in her prayer for a job?

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

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

4. Into what situation are the Tutsi survivors placed by the French on the road to the RPF troops?

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

6. What is Immaculee's reaction to seeing the deformed skull of her slain brother Damascene?

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

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

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

10. 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"?

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