Hotel Rwanda

What is the author's purpose for including this off-screen line? Hint: off-screen lines are only heard...the actor is not seen.

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

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

• They are portraying the soldiers as calm and businesslike.

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

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

• It shows that Paul is naive in thinking they will live

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

• It shows that Paul and the guests could live if outside forces stepped in to help them.

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

• 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 rescuing them.

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

Which of these inferences is best supported by the text?

Answer choices for the above question

• 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.

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

What is most closely a central idea of the excerpt?

• 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.

Which definition best describes the word "refugee?"

• A person fleeing a country to escape danger

• Official record book

• Very intense

• interference in another's affairs (business)

Which definition best describes the word "intervention?"

• Official record book

• Very intense

• Interference into another’s affairs

• A person fleeing a country to escape danger

Which definition best describes the term "profound?"

• Official record book

• Very intense

• a person fleeing a country to escape danger

• interference in another's affairs (business)