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

2. In what village does Immaculee grow up?

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

4. What is the name of Immaculee's teacher at the time when she first experiences ethnic segregation?

5. What is the name of Immaculee's University roommate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Hutu government initially justify the killing of Tutsi people?

2. How do the six women manage to fit into the tiny bathroom?

3. What sort of content on the radio does Immaculee hear daily while she is at the University in Butare?

4. How does Immaculee spend most of her time in the bathroom?

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

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

7. Choose one word to capture the essence of Immaculee's description of her brother Damascene, and explain why it is a fitting choice.

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

9. Under what condition does Immaculee's father allow her to date John, and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

What are the effects of mindless violence? Ultimately, it can be seen in Left to Tell that strength, devoid of reason, dehumanizes a person. Analyze the manner in which human beings are dehumanized during the Rwandan genocide. What happens to the killers in the midst of their bloodlusts? How does Immaculee describe them when they are on their rampages? How do they behave in general? How do they behave in the presence of a Tutsi? In what ways do they forfeit their humanity? Ironically, how do they treat the Tutsi? What names do they call the Tutsi, and what is significant about this?

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