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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 colors are the beads of the rosary on which Immaculee daily prays while in the bathroom?

2. Who is killed on the first night of "retributions" for the death of the President?

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

4. For whom does Immaculee attempt and fail to pray immediately after thanking God for that which saved them from the killers' second search?

5. Which of the women in the bathroom is the eldest?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Immaculee, while traveling to a wedding with Damascene, pass by the Interahamwe roadblock?

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

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

Throughout the story of Left to Tell, and sometimes amid the very worst of the horrors, Immaculee recounts instances of great generosity and charity. Discuss the significance of such benevolence in the midst of tragedy in a well-developed analytical essay. Why are some people still so generous? What does this indicate about such people? How does generosity breed more generosity? How is charity similar? How does charity affect those who are its recipients? How does it affect society as a whole? What roles do generosity and charity play in both the events during the holocaust and immediately following it?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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