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

2. How many more women join the bathroom in "A Gathering of Orphans"?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

3. Which of the pastor's children do not receive the Tutsi women with sympathy?
(a) Dusenge.
(b) Sembeba.
(c) Lechim.
(d) Shimwe.

4. What is the name of Damascene's Hutu friend with whom he initially stays?
(a) Bonn.
(b) Iata.
(c) Kageyo.
(d) Louis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. To where does Aloise offer to take Immaculee and her companions from the French base camp?

5. At least how much weight has Immaculee lost by the beginning of "The Gift of Tongues"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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. How does Damascene face his death?

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

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

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