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

2. What are members of the Tutsi tribe often denied in the public sphere?

3. How many cows does Immaculee's father sell in order to pay for her schooling?

4. Which of the ladies in the bathroom does not cry when Pastor Murinzi tells them how the Tutsi people have been slaughtered even inside churches?

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. What characterizes the women's stay in the bathroom, as related in "Confronting My Anger"?

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

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

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

5. Against what does Immaculee recount arguing in "Struggling to Forgive"?

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

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

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

9. How does Immaculee finally make the transition from the private high school to the public high school?

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

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

An extremely important figure in Immaculee's life, her brother Damascene shows an exceptional moral character in his final moments. Examine this moral character in an analytical essay. What are Damascene's strengths? What are his weaknesses? What is significant about both the content and the appearance of his final letter to Immaculee? How does he confront his killers? What words does he speak in his final moments? What is demonstrated through these words? What does this indicate about Damascene's faith? Overall, what characterizes Damascene?

Essay Topic 3

After having escaped the hellish bathroom in which she is imprisoned for three months, Immaculee learns to become grateful for even the simplest and most mundane of pleasures. Examine this relativity of the quality of life in a thoughtful and considerate essay. What is meant by the phrase "quality of life"? How does one judge or determine the quality of life? In what things, actions, or possibilities does one's quality of life consist? How does this judgment shift according to circumstances and situations? How does it shift for Immaculee? What does this demonstrate about human nature and human living?

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