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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 month of Clemantine's eighth grade year did she read Elie Wiesel's Night?

2. Where were Claire and Clemantine's parents living in the Prologue?

3. How old was Clemantine when she celebrated Christmas in a refugee camp in Burundi with pencils she hid under her tent?

4. How long did the Rwandan genocide last?

5. What grade was Clemantine put into in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it like in the refugee camp in Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 3, why was the larva-filled dirt a problem?

3. How did Clemantine's life shrink in Chapter 1?

4. What was Claire's life like in Chapter 4?

5. Why did Clemantine not understand the point of the word genocide when she was in the eighth grade?

6. What happened when Claire and Clemantine were sent to their grandmother's farm in Butare?

7. What was it like for Clemantine at the Thomases' place?

8. In Chapter 5, what was it like for Clemantine to do laundry at the refugee camp?

9. Why did Clemantine have almost no photographs or mementos to remember her life?

10. What jobs did Claire have when they came to the United States?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rwanda established a Remembrance Day and a period of mourning for the genocide. How did Clemantine feel about the Remembrance Day? What pain did it cause her? How did it make her want to remember and to forget?

Essay Topic 2

Clemantine had to struggle to discover who she was. Why did Clemantine struggle to discover who she was and who she wanted to become? Was she able to reclaim or recreate her identity?

Essay Topic 3

Clemantine was introduced to the word “genocide” in an eighth-grade class. Why did Claire dislike the word “genocide”? Why did she believe it did not convey the horror of what happened?

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