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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. Where is the member of Immaculee's family who is absent when she arrives home for the holiday?

2. How many other girls does the Protestant student date while with Immaculee?

3. For what holiday does Immaculee return home from the University?

4. To what tribe does the Protestant student Immaculee meets at the University belong?

5. What is the name of Vianney's high school teacher who arrives at Pastor Murinzi's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For Immaculee's survival, as well as the survival of the other seven Tutsi women she shares the bathroom with, no human person can be given more credit than Pastor Murinzi. Yet he is not a perfect person during the genocide. Examine the conflict which tears at the pastor and how he reacts to it, in a thoughtful and insightful analytical essay. What risks does the pastor take on behalf of the women? What risks does he not take? What is significant about the length of the risk he takes? What would have happened to the pastor had he been found out? What would have happened to the pastor had he turned the women away? What is shown about the moral character of the pastor through his actions during the genocide?

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

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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