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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 Interahamwe confront the 30 Tutsi refugees after they are deposited by the French truck?

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

3. What is the name of the friend who lives near the lake with whom Damascene spends his last night?

4. While in Kigali, where does Immaculee go to pray and meditate?

5. What is the name of the woman who had been hiding Malaba before she arrives at the pastor's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What do Major Ntwali do for Immaculee and her friends in "On to Kigali"?

9. How does Damascene face his death?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the effects of mindless violence? Ultimately, it can be seen in Left to Tell that strength, devoid of reason, dehumanizes a person. Analyze the manner in which human beings are dehumanized during the Rwandan genocide. What happens to the killers in the midst of their bloodlusts? How does Immaculee describe them when they are on their rampages? How do they behave in general? How do they behave in the presence of a Tutsi? In what ways do they forfeit their humanity? Ironically, how do they treat the Tutsi? What names do they call the Tutsi, and what is significant about this?

Essay Topic 2

An extremely important figure in Immaculee's life, her brother Damascene shows an exceptional moral character in his final moments. Examine this moral character in an analytical essay. What are Damascene's strengths? What are his weaknesses? What is significant about both the content and the appearance of his final letter to Immaculee? How does he confront his killers? What words does he speak in his final moments? What is demonstrated through these words? What does this indicate about Damascene's faith? Overall, what characterizes Damascene?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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