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

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

3. What notable item does Immaculee find in a house nearby Aloise's?

4. From what country is the general of the UN Peacekeepers who remained behind after the Belgian soldiers pulled out?

5. To what town are most of the refugees in the French base camp moved in August 1994?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Immaculee finally manage to get a job working for the United Nations?

5. 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"?

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

7. What characterizes Immaculee and Aimable's relationship with one another after the events of the genocide?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Immaculee Ilibagiza most certainly would not have gotten through the genocide in the manner that she does, nor have become the person she is today, if not for the strength and quality of her family. Analyze the concept of family, through the exemplars presented in Left to Tell, in a well-developed essay. What is a family? What is the function of a family in society? What is the function of a family for an individual? What should an individual gain from growing up within in a family? What does Immaculee gain from growing up in her family? What does each member of her family contribute to her character? How does her family make her a better person?

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