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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. What is the name of the Protestant pastor who shames the young men who caught Damascene?
(a) Simoni.
(b) Karera.
(c) Nsenge.
(d) Sehame.

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

3. How many guards protect the borders of the French camp?
(a) 500.
(b) 120.
(c) 100.
(d) 30.

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

5. Approximately how many Interahamwe do Pastor Murinzi's family and the Tutsi women pass on the road while moving towards the French field encampment?
(a) 20.
(b) 100.
(c) 150.
(d) 60.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many hours a day does Immaculee meditate, as stated in "A Gathering of Orphans"?

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

3. What has damaged the face of Florence, the Tutsi refugee Immaculee meets in the French camp?

4. How far does Immaculee and her two friends walk with the Interahamwe killers circling them?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Immaculee finally manage to get a job working for the United Nations?

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

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

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

5. How does Damascene face his death?

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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"?

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

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