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Immaculee
In Hiding
Stories of the Genocide
100
What ethnic group is in power at the time of the book?
Hutu
100
Who hides Immaculee and the others?
Pastor Murinzi
100
When did Immaculee first encounter Interahamwe (what event)?
When she had to get off the bus on the way to the wedding
100
How many people are hiding in the room at this point in the story?
8 women
100
What happened to Immaculee's family's house?
Looted and burned
200
What year is the book taking place?
1994
200
Which of Immaculee's friends turns against her?
Janet
200
How was Immaculee's education financed?
Her dad sold a cow - that's a BIG DEAL
200
What gives Immaculee strength and peace while she is in hiding?
Prayer
200
What happened to the man who stopped at the pastor's house but was turned away? He was worried about his wife and kids.
He was attacked and killed by Hutus just a little ways down the road
300
Who is the RPF?
Rwandese Patriotic front; Tutsi rebel army
300
Which brother is the youngest?
Vianney
300
List two childhood memories Immaculee describes in the book
swimming her father coming home and waking them up her mother making clothes for a neighbor
300
How do they know what is going on with the RPF and the fighting across Rwanda?
Hear it on the pastor's radio
300
How did Malaba and Solange (the last to arrive in hiding) escape being attacked while they were traveling to the pastor's house?
They dressed as Interahamwe
400
What is the third ethnicity in Rwanda?
Twa
400
Who asks Immaculee to come home for Easter?
Her father
400
What did Immaculee and her friend Clementine have in common?
They were Tutsis in a mostly-Hutu school (they formed a suicide pact)
400
At this point in the story, who knows where the women are hiding?
The pastor and his youngest son and daughter
400
What happened at the university campus?
More than 500 students were killed
500
Hutus and Tutsis lived peacefully until what country came and put the Tutsis in control?
Belgium
500
What was the name of the teacher who punished Immaculee for not knowing she was a Tutsi?
Buhoro
500
What does Immaculee's name mean?
light
500
What was the last time Immaculee cried while she was in hiding?
When she believed Damascene had been killed
500
What is the "evidence" that Immaculee's father was working with the RPF and had hidden weapons?
A blank piece of paper