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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. What were Immaculee's parents both trained to be?

2. Whom has the member of her family that Immaculee questions privately seen in the village of Mataba?

3. In what village does Immaculee grow up?

4. For roughly how many hours does Immaculee pray rosaries while the killers search the house a second time?

5. What stipulation does Immaculee's father place on the Protestant student dating Immaculee?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Augustine's relationship to Immaculee's family?

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

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

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

5. How does Leonard react to finding 2,000 refugees from the slaughter of the Interahamwe outside his home?

6. How do Immaculee's parents set a good communal example for her and her brothers?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Left to Tell, as the story of one woman's survival of violent atrocities, can be seen as a conflict between two opposite forces: hate, embodied in the mindless, ravening Hutu Interahamwe killers, who dehumanize themselves through their own actions; and love, embodied in the gentleness and forgiveness of Immaculee Ilibagiza, who reaches a fuller human potential through her actions. Analyze this contrast in a comprehensive essay which takes into account the whole of the story. What is hate? What is love? How are they contraries? In what sorts of actions does each consist? How do actions of the former sort reduce one's humanity? How do actions of the latter type increase it? In what way does Immaculee embody love? In what way do the killers embody hate?

Essay Topic 3

Humble, pious, loving--what other words could be used to describe Immaculee Ilibagiza? Drawing upon instances from the text, as well as the message she promotes within it, analyze the moral character and personality of Immaculee. What are her strengths as a person? What particular actions show her strengths? How does she develop these strengths during her experiences in the Rwandan holocaust? In what ways is she weak, and how is that shown in the text? What are her principal character traits? What struggles has she faced in her life? How has she overcome these struggles? How does the message she promotes in Left to Tell corroborate her life experiences? What is demonstrated about her character through the relationships she built with other people?

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