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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. How many vehicles does Immaculee's family own?

2. Which two colonial countries settled in Rwanda and created political tension and turmoil?

3. Which tribe is given the most opportunity to succeed in the school system?

4. What does Immaculee hold in her hand while passing the mob?

5. How far is the distance between Immaculee's house and the pastor's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the plan that Clementine devises in case the Tutsi were to be severely persecuted at the Lycee High School?

2. How does Immaculee spend most of her time in the bathroom?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does the radio stations tell the Tutsi people to stay inside their homes during the early stages of the genocide?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An extremely important figure in Immaculee's life, her brother Damascene shows an exceptional moral character in his final moments. Examine this moral character in an analytical essay. What are Damascene's strengths? What are his weaknesses? What is significant about both the content and the appearance of his final letter to Immaculee? How does he confront his killers? What words does he speak in his final moments? What is demonstrated through these words? What does this indicate about Damascene's faith? Overall, what characterizes Damascene?

Essay Topic 2

After having escaped the hellish bathroom in which she is imprisoned for three months, Immaculee learns to become grateful for even the simplest and most mundane of pleasures. Examine this relativity of the quality of life in a thoughtful and considerate essay. What is meant by the phrase "quality of life"? How does one judge or determine the quality of life? In what things, actions, or possibilities does one's quality of life consist? How does this judgment shift according to circumstances and situations? How does it shift for Immaculee? What does this demonstrate about human nature and human living?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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