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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who followed the TRC workers and commissioners, according to the "Postscript"?
(a) Stalkers.
(b) Fans.
(c) Bodyguards.
(d) Mental health staff.

2. What does Tutu state cannot be found in South Africa today?
(a) Black bankers.
(b) White farmers.
(c) Oil.
(d) Supporters of apartheid.

3. What did many apartheid supporters say they saw anti-apartheid movements as being during their TRC hearing?
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Capitalistm

4. What was forgiveness NOT according to Tutu?
(a) Passing judgement.
(b) Forgetting the crime.
(c) Not punishing the guilty.
(d) Forgiving the victim.

5. What did Winnie Mandela preside over in 1995?
(a) The TRC.
(b) The republic of South African
(c) The ANC women's League.
(d) The ANC women's chapter.

6. What does Tutu believe about the white Afrikaner minority in "Chapter Ten, We Did Not Know"?
(a) They were castaways.
(b) They were traitors.
(c) They were powerless.
(d) They could have ended apartheid.

7. What does Tutu state happened to many of the TRC staff?
(a) They were shattered.
(b) They were fired.
(c) They killed themselves.
(d) They were killed.

8. Tutu believed the TRC saved South Africa from ______________.
(a) White domination.
(b) Invasion.
(c) The brink of disaster.
(d) Black domination.

9. What does Tutu say many people do not want to expose?
(a) Their true beliefs.
(b) Their thoughts.
(c) Their vulnerabilities.
(d) Their families.

10. What did Tutu encourage TRC workers and commissioners to deal with?
(a) Their family.
(b) Their feelings.
(c) Their enemies.
(d) Their friends.

11. What was the other name of Winnie Mandela's bodyguard team?
(a) The Mandela United Football Team.
(b) The Winnie Security Team.
(c) Winnie's Men.
(d) The Mandela Bone Breakers.

12. What did the Dutch Reformed Church do for the apartheid government prior to 1994?
(a) Hid black fugitives.
(b) Provided a theological rationale for apartheid.
(c) Provided interrogation rooms.
(d) Denounced confession for whites.

13. Why was reconciliation in jeopardy in South Africa according to Tutu?
(a) Massive wealth inequalities between white and blacks.
(b) Blacks were creating laws against the whites.
(c) Nelson Mandela died.
(d) Whites tried to take power.

14. Why did Tutu fight to prevent the TRC from giving a special hearing to the ANC?
(a) To avoid looking like a lackey of the ANC.
(b) The TRC didn't have the time.
(c) Tutu wanted to keep the ANC out of the TRC hearings.
(d) The ANC had already held its hearing.

15. What does Tutu assert many people did at the TRC?
(a) Cried.
(b) Revealed their vulnerability in public.
(c) Admitted to murder.
(d) Avoided answering questions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died due to Apartheid terrorism?

2. What did Tutu do while Winnie Mandela was in exile?

3. What does Tutu say Mandela's wife benefited from between 1992 and 1996?

4. How was Tutu's message of peace perceived by Israel?

5. Why was the TRC's neutrality questioned at the start of its mandate?

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