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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 does Immaculee track within Rwanda in her first job at the UN?

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

3. How many hours journey is it from the RPF camp to Kigali?

4. What does the captain of the French troops offer to Immaculee shortly after discovering she can speak French fluently?

5. What is the name of the housekeeper who gives Immaculee a detailed description of the death of her brother Damascene?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does the French captain offer to Immaculee, and why does she reject it?

4. How do the RPF soldiers greet Immaculee when she first arrives at the roadblock?

5. What is Immaculee's reaction to seeing the deformed skull of her slain brother Damascene?

6. How does Damascene face his death?

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

8. How do Immaculee and the other Tutsi women make it past the Interahamwe in "The Pain of Freedom"?

9. What characterizes Immaculee and Aimable's relationship with one another after the events of the genocide?

10. How do the children of the pastor react to learning of the women who had been hiding in the pastor's bathroom?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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