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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. Who is the extremist Hutu uncle of Damascene's Hutu friend who hid him for weeks?

2. With whom is Immaculee reunited in late 1995?

3. At what time do the French soldiers tell Pastor Murinzi to bring the Tutsi women to them?

4. For how many hours a day does Immaculee meditate, as stated in "A Gathering of Orphans"?

5. What is the profession of Dr. Abel, whom Immaculee encounters on the streets of Kigali?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is Immaculee's reaction to seeing the deformed skull of her slain brother Damascene?

8. Why does Immaculee attempt to teach herself English while hiding in the bathroom?

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

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

Humble, pious, loving--what other words could be used to describe Immaculee Ilibagiza? Drawing upon instances from the text, as well as the message she promotes within it, analyze the moral character and personality of Immaculee. What are her strengths as a person? What particular actions show her strengths? How does she develop these strengths during her experiences in the Rwandan holocaust? In what ways is she weak, and how is that shown in the text? What are her principal character traits? What struggles has she faced in her life? How has she overcome these struggles? How does the message she promotes in Left to Tell corroborate her life experiences? What is demonstrated about her character through the relationships she built with other people?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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