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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 member of her family does Immaculee pull aside to question privately?

2. On what do Leonard and Rose flee their burnt home?

3. Where is the university to which Immaculee is awarded a scholarship in "Off to University"?

4. In what grade does Immaculee first experience ethnic segregation?

5. What does the negative voice in Immaculee's head tell her she is acting like whenever she prays to God?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the only promising news that Immaculee and her family hear during the first days of the genocide?

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

8. What is the message Immaculee receives from Psalm 91 when she first receives the Bible?

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

10. What realization does Immaculee have which finally enables her to forgive the killers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The group upon whose doorstop most of the blame for the actual killings during the genocide has been laid is the Interahamwe. Analyze the culpability of the group, as well as its essence, in a carefully written analytical essay. Who are the Interahamwe? What sort of people comprise the Interahamwe? What characterizes these people? In what sort of actions and pleasures do they indulge? What is their relationship to reasonable proceedings? What does this indicate about the essence of the Interahamwe? In what way does this mitigate their culpability? How is this yet far from absolving the members of the Interahamwe?

Essay Topic 2

Consumed with fear and overwhelmed with propaganda, many of the people in Immaculee's life, who are otherwise good people, are at times given over to irrational states of mind. Using numerous examples from the text, explicate how irrationality takes hold of a person's mind and what the effects are. Whom does Immaculee encounter in states of irrationality? How do these people become irrational? What sources contribute to their irrationality? What sorts of things do they believe, and how does this show them as lacking in rationality? What are the consequences of their irrational thinking and behavior?

Essay Topic 3

Contrary to the love and peace that Immaculee finds amid her struggles is the deep hatred felt and exercised by many during the Rwandan genocide. Discuss this hatred in an analytical essay which answers the following questions: why are so many people given over to hate during the genocide? How does such hatred take hold of the hearts of otherwise good and normal people? How does hate transform people that have long been friends of Immaculee and her family? What does such hatred do to the rationality of people? How does hate lessen one's humanity?

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