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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. To where is Damascene headed when he is killed?
(a) Uganda.
(b) Burundi.
(c) Zaire.
(d) Kenya.

2. What is the name of the woman who had been hiding Malaba before she arrives at the pastor's house?
(a) Solange.
(b) Marianne.
(c) Lisa.
(d) Rose.

3. What is the first sentence that Immaculee learns to say in English?
(a) "I am Tutsi."
(b) "I am looking for my family."
(c) "I want a job."
(d) "I am Immaculee."

4. By whom or what is Immaculee console about the fate of her family, as related in "Forgiving the Living"?
(a) A dream.
(b) A garden full of flowers.
(c) Her Aunt Jeanne.
(d) Sarah.

5. In what do Sarah and Immaculee travel to Mataba with Colonel Gueye?
(a) A helicopter.
(b) A sports car.
(c) A small plane.
(d) An armored convoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Immaculee when she sees brother's mutilated body?

2. Which of the pastor's relatives does Immaculee hear speaking about murders of Tutsi outside the bathroom window at the beginning of "Unlikely Saviors"?

3. What is the date of Damascene's last letter to his family?

4. Into what city does the UN Peacekeeping troops first fly?

5. For how long have the women been in Pastor Murinzi's bathroom when they decide to go to the UN Peacekeeping troops?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

4. Why does Aloise offer Immaculee and her friends a place to stay in Kigali?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Immaculee say that John squandered the opportunity for love between them?

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

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