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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 high school was Clemantine attending in the Prologue?

2. How much of the Rwandan population were made up of the Hutus?

3. How old was Clemantine in 2006?

4. How many children did Claire have before she was 22?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, where were Clemantine and others taken?

2. How did Clemantine struggle when she first got to the United States?

3. Why did Clemantine move to the Thomases' place?

4. Why did Claire marry Rob, and did he live up to his promises?

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

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

7. What are two things that Clemantine had in Chapter 2 that were special to her?

8. Why did Clemantine find herself alarmed and comforted by Elie Wiesel's book, Night?

9. Where did Clemantine live with her family, and what were their lives like before the genocide?

10. What illness did Claire get in Chapter 5, and how did she feel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Clemantine arranged a trip to Europe with her mother. What expectations did Clemantine have for the trip and how it would affect the relationship with her mother? Why did her expectations not become reality?

Essay Topic 2

Claire and Clemantine had different ideas about forgiveness. How did Claire and Clemantine have different ideas about forgiveness? How did not being able to forgive affect Clemantine? Was Claire better off because she learned to forgive?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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