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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. For what reason is Immaculee's father arrested?

2. Which tribe came to be the dominant ruling class because of others fleeing ethnic persecution?

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

4. How far is the distance between Immaculee's house and the pastor's house?

5. What prevents the killers from finding the bathroom on their second search?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who makes up the populace of the Rwandese Patriotic Front, or RPF?

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

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

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

9. Why is Damascene downcast during Immaculee's return home at Easter?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Immaculee Ilibagiza most certainly would not have gotten through the genocide in the manner that she does, nor have become the person she is today, if not for the strength and quality of her family. Analyze the concept of family, through the exemplars presented in Left to Tell, in a well-developed essay. What is a family? What is the function of a family in society? What is the function of a family for an individual? What should an individual gain from growing up within in a family? What does Immaculee gain from growing up in her family? What does each member of her family contribute to her character? How does her family make her a better person?

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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