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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 pastor's children gives Immaculee a hug?

2. What does the captain of the French troops offer to Immaculee shortly after discovering she can speak French fluently?

3. Approximately how many Interahamwe do Pastor Murinzi's family and the Tutsi women pass on the road while moving towards the French field encampment?

4. Which of the following is a name belonging to one of Immaculee's aunts that she encounters in the French base camp?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Damascene face his death?

4. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How do Immaculee and the other Tutsi women make it past the Interahamwe in "The Pain of Freedom"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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