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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, This Is My Brother, I Know These Shoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Tutu nominated as the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
(a) December 19, 1994.
(b) October 15, 1994.
(c) December 15, 1994.
(d) December 15, 1995.

2. According to Tutu, voting in South Africa was _______________.
(a) A spiritual experience.
(b) A burden.
(c) A dangerous thing.
(d) A difficult thing.

3. What does Tutu express he and the TRC had to constantly emphasize?
(a) They were not conducting a witch hunt.
(b) They were only prosecuting whites.
(c) They were racially blind.
(d) Blacks were honest.

4. What was put in place after the presidential election of 1994?
(a) A new elite guard.
(b) A new army.
(c) A new parliament.
(d) A new constitution.

5. What does Tutu say he understood despite not being able to exonerate Winnie Mandela?
(a) Anyone could be a monster.
(b) She was a patriotic woman.
(c) Anyone could buckle under pressure.
(d) Women could be bad too.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tutu state was forcibly segregated?

2. Why were the unarmed schoolchildren shot and killed during the Soweto violence in 1976?

3. Who was Mandela's wife?

4. What was December 16th designated as prior to 1994?

5. What did Tutu have to do before becoming the Dean of Johannesburg?

(see the answer key)

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