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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 guards protect the borders of the French camp?

2. Which of the following does Immaculee not find in the one large envelope in her room?

3. From what country is the general of the UN Peacekeepers who remained behind after the Belgian soldiers pulled out?

4. What does Immaculee put in her mouth to keep from making a noise in "Keeping the Faith"?

5. Why does the French captain deposit the Tutsi refugees on the road barely halfway to the RPF camp when he hears reports of gunfire in the area?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. 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"?

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

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

8. What is the state of the city of Kigali when Immaculee and her friends arrive there after the war?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the story of Left to Tell, and sometimes amid the very worst of the horrors, Immaculee recounts instances of great generosity and charity. Discuss the significance of such benevolence in the midst of tragedy in a well-developed analytical essay. Why are some people still so generous? What does this indicate about such people? How does generosity breed more generosity? How is charity similar? How does charity affect those who are its recipients? How does it affect society as a whole? What roles do generosity and charity play in both the events during the holocaust and immediately following it?

Essay Topic 2

For Immaculee's survival, as well as the survival of the other seven Tutsi women she shares the bathroom with, no human person can be given more credit than Pastor Murinzi. Yet he is not a perfect person during the genocide. Examine the conflict which tears at the pastor and how he reacts to it, in a thoughtful and insightful analytical essay. What risks does the pastor take on behalf of the women? What risks does he not take? What is significant about the length of the risk he takes? What would have happened to the pastor had he been found out? What would have happened to the pastor had he turned the women away? What is shown about the moral character of the pastor through his actions during the genocide?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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