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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 Immaculee put in her mouth to keep from making a noise in "Keeping the Faith"?

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

3. Where does Immaculee volunteer in Kigali while she is working there at the UN?

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

5. What is the name of the friend who lives near the lake with whom Damascene spends his last night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. For what does the pastor ask the women to pray with him and why?

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

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

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

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

10. 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"?

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

For Immaculee's survival, as well as the survival of the other seven Tutsi women she shares the bathroom with, no human person can be given more credit than Pastor Murinzi. Yet he is not a perfect person during the genocide. Examine the conflict which tears at the pastor and how he reacts to it, in a thoughtful and insightful analytical essay. What risks does the pastor take on behalf of the women? What risks does he not take? What is significant about the length of the risk he takes? What would have happened to the pastor had he been found out? What would have happened to the pastor had he turned the women away? What is shown about the moral character of the pastor through his actions during the genocide?

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