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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. To which apostle does Immaculee appeal in her prayer for a job?

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

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

4. Who spots the Tutsi women hidden by Pastor Murinzi during their respite from the bathroom?

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

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

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

5. For what reason does Immaculee believe the French would not slaughter the Tutsi people as the Hutu think they would?

6. What does Immaculee hope her words can do for survivors of holocausts and for those subject to violence everywhere?

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

8. Why does Immaculee attempt to teach herself English while hiding in the bathroom?

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

10. What prevents Damascene from staying with good friends who would have hidden him and helped him to escape the country, leading to his death, as is recounted in "A Letter from Damascene"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A significant portion of what enables the Hutu government to enact the genocide is a constant, consistent, and habitual pattern of discrimination against the Tutsi. Discuss the effects of this discriminatory pattern in a thoughtful analytical essay. In what particular ways are the Tutsi discriminated against? How does this progressively lower their status in Hutu eyes? What respect is had for someone against whom there is habitual discrimination? In what ways are the Tutsi immediately affected by the discriminatory practices against them? How are they ultimately affected by them?

Essay Topic 2

Compose an analytical essay which carefully considers the message of forgiveness and its importance that Immaculee Ilibagiza promotes in her book Left to Tell. Why does she see forgiveness as so necessary? What is important about forgiveness? What does forgiveness give to men? What is the opposite of forgiveness, and how does it undermine man's good? How can men forgive one another? For what sorts of things do men need to forgive one another? What are some examples of forgiveness in the book? Where is forgiveness lacking, and how does it affect Rwanda?

Essay Topic 3

While in the bathroom, surrounded by war, violence, and the death of loved ones, as well as a total evaporation of personal freedom, Immaculee finds a means to transcend the horror. Examine the concept of transcendence and the particular way in which Immaculee finds it, in a well-planned analytical essay. What is the nature of violence, war, and all such horrible things? In what sorts of experiences does one encounter these horrible things? Contrariwise, what does it mean to transcend? How does one transcend the horrible? In what sort of experiences does one encounter the transcendent? How does Immaculee find the transcendent? From what does it free her?

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