Hotel Rwanda

What is most likely the authors’ reason for inserting the following offscreen line (paragraph 20)?

SOLDIER (O.S.): Where are your papers?

• They are showing just how sneaky Paul is being with his phone call to Tillens.

• They want to show how imminent the threat around Paul is.

• They are portraying the soldiers as calm and businesslike.

• They want to steer attention away from Paul’s phone conversation.

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How does Paul’s response, “you saved our lives” (paragraph 79) add to the development of the scene?

• It shows that Paul and the guests could live if outside forces intervened.

• It leads the audience into believing that the refugees have been saved.

• It sets up the imminent battle between the French and Belgian armies against the hostage takers.

• It shows that Paul is naïve in thinking they will live.

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Why does Paul instruct the refugees to tell the people they are calling that “if they let go of that hand...you will die” (paragraph 91)?

• He wants the refugees to prolong the phone calls for as long as they can.

• He is attempting to get the Hutu soldiers to feel sorry for the people who are trapped inside the hotel.

• He believes that those outside the country must be shocked into feeling compelled to rescue them.

• He is seeing if the people with influential friends in other countries can get those people to send money to the guests.

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What do the following lines mainly reveal (paragraph 111)?

BRITISH REPORTER (V.O. – THRU RADIO): Is it true that you have specific guidance not to use the word genocide in isolation, but always to preface it with this word, “acts of”?

• The American State Department does not believe that there is anything wrong or dangerous going on inside Rwanda.

• American authorities appear to be downplaying the severity of the situation in Rwanda.

• The British are the only ones who are truly concerned with what is going on inside Rwanda.

• Americans are unclear on the meaning of genocide.

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Which of these inferences is best supported by the text?

• Paul took in displaced Rwandans after Europeans fled the ongoing violence.

• No one besides Paul is aware of the reaction from the western countries toward the Rwandan refugees.

• The western countries would like to see the Hutu militants succeed.

• Paul is willing to turn over guests who will not pay their bills to the Hutu soldiers.

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Which line from the text most strongly supports the answer to Question 5?

Reminder- question was: Which of these inferences is best supported by the text?

• “I pleaded with the French and the Belgians to go back and get you all.”

• “The Interahamwe believe that the Mille Collines is a four-star Sabena hotel.”

• “They’ve ordered us – all of us – out of the hotel.”

• “I want to thank you for everything you have done for me and my family, and please thank all of my friends at Sabena.”

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What is most closely a central idea of the excerpt?

• The refugees inside the hotel have given up hope that they will receive any assistance from those outside Rwanda.

• Western nations are ignoring the situation in Rwanda because there is no political gain.

• Tillens is not concerned with the safety of Paul and the others inside the hotel.

• This type of instability and brutal violence is commonplace in Rwanda.

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Which sentence from the text most strongly supports your answer to Question 7?

Reminder- Question 7 was: What is most closely a central idea of the excerpt?

• “We must shame them into sending help.”

• “We stopped taking names after the President was murdered.”

• “There are no Europeans left.”

• “Rwanda is not – worth a single vote to any of them.”

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