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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. What does Pierre give to Immaculee just before the refugees leave the French camp?

2. How many hours journey is it from the RPF camp to Kigali?

3. Which foreign troops are the first to arrive in Rwanda?

4. Which of the pastor's children do not receive the Tutsi women with sympathy?

5. In what do Sarah and Immaculee travel to Mataba with Colonel Gueye?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the moment of his greatest compassion, Pastor Murinzi, speaking to his children and pointing to the Tutsi women he has been hiding in his bathroom for over 90 days, tells them that "There but for the grace of God go any one of you." Analyze the significance of this statement in the context of the Rwandan genocide. What does the Pastor mean? How could the same thing have happened to any of his children? What does this statement reveal about the moral character of the pastor? What does it demonstrate about the pastor's understanding of the genocide? What does it show about the nature of genocide in general? What does it illuminate concerning the dignity of human life?

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

An important part of Immaculee's life is the education she received. Examine how education is important to the development of the human person, using examples from Immaculee's life. What does education change within a person? How can education make a person better? In what ways is Immaculee helped throughout her experiences with the genocide by the education she has received? What is the end goal of education? How is this goal achieved? In what way does Immaculee achieve this goal?

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