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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. Which of the Tutsi women is the only one who knows how to speak French when they arrive at the gate of the field encampment?

2. What does Pierre, the French soldier, tell Immaculee?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

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

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

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

7. How does Immaculee finally manage to get a job working for the United Nations?

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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