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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 which apostle does Immaculee appeal in her prayer for a job?
(a) Matthias.
(b) Andrew.
(c) James.
(d) Peter.

2. What is the name of the housekeeper who gives Immaculee a detailed description of the death of her brother Damascene?
(a) Kigana.
(b) Sanha.
(c) Karubu.
(d) Traore.

3. Why does the French captain deposit the Tutsi refugees on the road barely halfway to the RPF camp when he hears reports of gunfire in the area?
(a) He is afraid of conflict with the Hutu.
(b) He is given orders to avoid fighting at all costs.
(c) His truck breaks down.
(d) He is afraid of conflict with the RPF.

4. What has damaged the face of Florence, the Tutsi refugee Immaculee meets in the French camp?
(a) Shrapnel from a grenade.
(b) A ricocheted bullet.
(c) A spear.
(d) A machete.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Immaculee not find in the one large envelope in her room?

2. What are the first three words Immaculee says to Felicien?

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

4. Who in Rwanda demands English-speaking UN Peacekeepers?

5. About which of her family members does Immaculee ask Pastor Murinzi at the end of "A Gathering of Orphans"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. Why do the Hutu think that the French coming to Rwanda would be a boon to their genocidal efforts?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Damascene face his death?

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

(see the answer keys)

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