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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Immaculee's relatives gives in to despair in "No Going Back"?

2. Who goes with Immaculee to the pastor's house?

3. What is the pastor's relation to Immaculee's boyfriend, John?

4. Of what is the Protestant student convinced should Immaculee help a woman defend herself against robbers and attackers?

5. What is Immaculee's father holding in his hand as he addresses the crowd gathered outside of their home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Immaculee's Catholic faith is mentioned early and often in Left to Tell; how is she raised to perceive her faith?

2. What is the opinion of Sembeba, the pastor's son, concerning the Tutsi?

3. What is the plan that Clementine devises in case the Tutsi were to be severely persecuted at the Lycee High School?

4. Of what does Pastor Murinzi accuse Immaculee's father and priest, Father Clement, in "No Friends to Turn To"?

5. What mistake of judgment of character does Immaculee's father make, as related by Damscene in "The Pastor's House"?

6. How does Immaculee, while traveling to a wedding with Damascene, pass by the Interahamwe roadblock?

7. What does the pastor tell the women he would do for them in "Farewell to the Boys"?

8. Who makes up the populace of the Rwandese Patriotic Front, or RPF?

9. Why is Immaculee Ilibagiza initially denied a scholarship to high school?

10. What characterizes Immaculee's life at the University?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the story of Left to Tell, and sometimes amid the very worst of the horrors, Immaculee recounts instances of great generosity and charity. Discuss the significance of such benevolence in the midst of tragedy in a well-developed analytical essay. Why are some people still so generous? What does this indicate about such people? How does generosity breed more generosity? How is charity similar? How does charity affect those who are its recipients? How does it affect society as a whole? What roles do generosity and charity play in both the events during the holocaust and immediately following it?

Essay Topic 2

One of the central elements to Immaculee's tale of survival amidst horror is the deep connection she formed with her faith. Analyze in a thoughtful, critical essay, the centrality of faith to Immaculee's story. What does it mean to have faith? What can faith mean to different people? What role does it play in her life? When does it become the most important to her? In what ways does it help her? How does she come to rely upon it? What does it change within her? Why is it significant that the faith of Immaculee is that of Catholic Christianity?

Essay Topic 3

Immaculee Ilibagiza most certainly would not have gotten through the genocide in the manner that she does, nor have become the person she is today, if not for the strength and quality of her family. Analyze the concept of family, through the exemplars presented in Left to Tell, in a well-developed essay. What is a family? What is the function of a family in society? What is the function of a family for an individual? What should an individual gain from growing up within in a family? What does Immaculee gain from growing up in her family? What does each member of her family contribute to her character? How does her family make her a better person?

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