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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 division of education does Immaculee's father sell his cows?

2. What is the date when Immaculee learns of the president's plane being shot down?

3. What is the name of the pastor's son with whom he argues in the bedroom near the bathroom?

4. In what country is Paul Kagame at the beginning of "No Going Back"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What characterizes Immaculee's life at the University?

6. What does the pastor tell the women he would do for them in "Farewell to the Boys"?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After all of the killing, destruction, and ruin that is wrought upon Rwanda by the genocidal killings of the Tutsi, Immaculee feels a strong need to return home and put the bodies of her loved ones to rest; she needs closure. Examine this natural human need to find closure in the deaths of loved ones. Why is closure important to human people? In what way does it help them? What does this indicate about human nature? What is the importance of death in human lives? How do human beings find closure? How does Immaculee find closure? In what way does it help her?

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

An important part of Immaculee's life is the education she received. Examine how education is important to the development of the human person, using examples from Immaculee's life. What does education change within a person? How can education make a person better? In what ways is Immaculee helped throughout her experiences with the genocide by the education she has received? What is the end goal of education? How is this goal achieved? In what way does Immaculee achieve this goal?

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