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

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

4. What has damaged the face of Florence, the Tutsi refugee Immaculee meets in the French camp?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

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

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

4. How does Damascene face his death?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Left to Tell, as the story of one woman's survival of violent atrocities, can be seen as a conflict between two opposite forces: hate, embodied in the mindless, ravening Hutu Interahamwe killers, who dehumanize themselves through their own actions; and love, embodied in the gentleness and forgiveness of Immaculee Ilibagiza, who reaches a fuller human potential through her actions. Analyze this contrast in a comprehensive essay which takes into account the whole of the story. What is hate? What is love? How are they contraries? In what sorts of actions does each consist? How do actions of the former sort reduce one's humanity? How do actions of the latter type increase it? In what way does Immaculee embody love? In what way do the killers embody hate?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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