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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. With whom is Immaculee reunited in late 1995?

2. To which apostle does Immaculee appeal in her prayer for a job?

3. What is the name of Damascene's Hutu friend with whom he initially stays?

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

5. For how long have the women been in the bathroom at the beginning of "The Gift of Tongues"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Damascene face his death?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. Into what situation are the Tutsi survivors placed by the French on the road to the RPF troops?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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