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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. Roughly how long do the women in the bathroom go between stretching themselves?

2. How does the youth movement of which Immaculee learns at the University attract youth?

3. What news station gives the report heard by the women in the bathroom that the RPF had made its way to the capital of Kigali?

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

5. For what is Immaculee mistaken when she is nearly shot by an irrational and fearful girl?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the ethnic atmosphere in which Immaculee finds herself at Lycee High School?

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

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

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

7. What exchange do Leonard and Immaculee make, and why is it significant?

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

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

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

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

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 3

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?

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