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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. With whom does Vianney leave Pastor Murinzi's house?

2. In what style is the pastor's house built?

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

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

5. Who treats Immaculee with contempt when she walks into the pastor's living room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What struggle does Immaculee encounter when the pastor tells her that Augustine and Vianney could not stay at his house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A significant portion of what enables the Hutu government to enact the genocide is a constant, consistent, and habitual pattern of discrimination against the Tutsi. Discuss the effects of this discriminatory pattern in a thoughtful analytical essay. In what particular ways are the Tutsi discriminated against? How does this progressively lower their status in Hutu eyes? What respect is had for someone against whom there is habitual discrimination? In what ways are the Tutsi immediately affected by the discriminatory practices against them? How are they ultimately affected by them?

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

Compose an analytical essay which carefully considers the message of forgiveness and its importance that Immaculee Ilibagiza promotes in her book Left to Tell. Why does she see forgiveness as so necessary? What is important about forgiveness? What does forgiveness give to men? What is the opposite of forgiveness, and how does it undermine man's good? How can men forgive one another? For what sorts of things do men need to forgive one another? What are some examples of forgiveness in the book? Where is forgiveness lacking, and how does it affect Rwanda?

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