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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. By whom or what is Immaculee console about the fate of her family, as related in "Forgiving the Living"?

2. What is the predominant feeling of Sehame after the killing of Damascene?

3. What does Immaculee see on the door of the bathroom after having her vision of Christ?

4. How many Interahamwe confront the 30 Tutsi refugees after they are deposited by the French truck?

5. To whom does the pastor intend to send the women in his bathroom after the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. How does Damascene face his death?

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

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

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

7. Why do the Hutu think that the French coming to Rwanda would be a boon to their genocidal efforts?

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

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

10. Why does Immaculee say that John squandered the opportunity for love between them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the central elements to Immaculee's tale of survival amidst horror is the deep connection she formed with her faith. Analyze in a thoughtful, critical essay, the centrality of faith to Immaculee's story. What does it mean to have faith? What can faith mean to different people? What role does it play in her life? When does it become the most important to her? In what ways does it help her? How does she come to rely upon it? What does it change within her? Why is it significant that the faith of Immaculee is that of Catholic Christianity?

Essay Topic 2

The group upon whose doorstop most of the blame for the actual killings during the genocide has been laid is the Interahamwe. Analyze the culpability of the group, as well as its essence, in a carefully written analytical essay. Who are the Interahamwe? What sort of people comprise the Interahamwe? What characterizes these people? In what sort of actions and pleasures do they indulge? What is their relationship to reasonable proceedings? What does this indicate about the essence of the Interahamwe? In what way does this mitigate their culpability? How is this yet far from absolving the members of the Interahamwe?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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