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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. How does the youth movement of which Immaculee learns at the University attract youth?

2. How many daughters are born to Immaculee's parents?

3. After Immaculee hears the voice of God, how does she perceive the killers?

4. What is the acronym of the radio station popular among students at the University?

5. Whom has the member of her family that Immaculee questions privately seen in the village of Mataba?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Leonard react to finding 2,000 refugees from the slaughter of the Interahamwe outside his home?

2. What dominates the feelings of the University students regarding the Interahamwe and their activities in Butare?

3. Describe the setting in which Immaculee is raised in the early years of her life.

4. Why is Immaculee's father arrested and how is he treated?

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

6. What does Immaculee's father do to ensure she receives a high school education, and why is it significant?

7. What sort of greetings do Immaculee and Augustine receive when they arrive at Pastor Murinzi's?

8. How is Immaculee embarrassed on her first day at junior high school?

9. Why does the radio stations tell the Tutsi people to stay inside their homes during the early stages of the genocide?

10. What is the ethnic atmosphere in which Immaculee finds herself at Lycee High School?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

While in the bathroom, surrounded by war, violence, and the death of loved ones, as well as a total evaporation of personal freedom, Immaculee finds a means to transcend the horror. Examine the concept of transcendence and the particular way in which Immaculee finds it, in a well-planned analytical essay. What is the nature of violence, war, and all such horrible things? In what sorts of experiences does one encounter these horrible things? Contrariwise, what does it mean to transcend? How does one transcend the horrible? In what sort of experiences does one encounter the transcendent? How does Immaculee find the transcendent? From what does it free her?

Essay Topic 2

In the moment of his greatest compassion, Pastor Murinzi, speaking to his children and pointing to the Tutsi women he has been hiding in his bathroom for over 90 days, tells them that "There but for the grace of God go any one of you." Analyze the significance of this statement in the context of the Rwandan genocide. What does the Pastor mean? How could the same thing have happened to any of his children? What does this statement reveal about the moral character of the pastor? What does it demonstrate about the pastor's understanding of the genocide? What does it show about the nature of genocide in general? What does it illuminate concerning the dignity of human life?

Essay Topic 3

As she, along with several other women, spend months in hiding in the bathroom, Immaculee lives in a sort of constant fear. Examine this fear in a well-organized essay that, using sources from the text, describes the nature of such a constant fear. What effects does it have on the person? How does it alter one's thinking, one's actions, and one's mentality? How does Immaculee in particular react to the constant fear? What are the sources of the fear? What factors contribute to this constant state of fear? When is the fear at its worst? How does such fear change over time?

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