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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 how many hours a day does Immaculee meditate, as stated in "A Gathering of Orphans"?

2. What is the name of the Tutsi survivor Immaculee speaks with in the French field encampment?

3. What Rwandan saves Immaculee and her friends at the roadblock?

4. What is the name of Immaculee's husband?

5. What does the pastor show the Tutsi women to give them a respite from their long confinement in the bathroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Into what situation are the Tutsi survivors placed by the French on the road to the RPF troops?

2. Where is the French base camp set up, and who does Immaculee find there?

3. How does Damascene face his death?

4. What does Immaculee find those in her town lacking that she had maintained when she visits home to put her mother's and brother's bodies to rest?

5. What do Major Ntwali do for Immaculee and her friends in "On to Kigali"?

6. What does Immaculee see after her dream, as related in "Keeping the Faith," and what does she take it to mean?

7. How does Immaculee manage to get from the streets of Kigali into her dorm room in Butare?

8. For what does the pastor ask the women to pray with him and why?

9. What international efforts are described in "A Gathering of Orphans" about the Rwandan massacres?

10. Why does Aloise offer Immaculee and her friends a place to stay in Kigali?

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

The Rwandan Holocaust could never have happened had it not been for the state-operated propaganda campaigns. Analyze these propaganda campaigns as they are portrayed throughout Left to Tell. What sort of propaganda is put forth immediately before the genocide? Through what mediums does this campaign achieve its goal? What techniques are employed by such propaganda? What is the broader propaganda campaign that makes the genocide possible, and how is it put into place? What could the Tutsi people do against such propaganda? What are the ultimate effects of the propaganda campaigns?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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