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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of justice do most people inherently think of?
(a) Restorative justice.
(b) Retributive justice.
(c) Mob justice.
(d) Quick justice.

2. How many black people were removed from their homes by the racist regime of South Africa?
(a) 4.5 million.
(b) 3.5 million.
(c) 3.9 million.
(d) 2.5 million.

3. How many "severe violations" does the TRC categorize as "gross" violations of human rights?
(a) Four.
(b) Eight.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

4. Who was the chief of the Inkatha Freedom Party in 1994?
(a) Robert de Verk.
(b) Desmond Tutu.
(c) Nelson Mandela.
(d) Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

5. What did people with ties to the segregationist regime get for their confession?
(a) Amnesty.
(b) Their lives spared.
(c) A light sentence.
(d) The right to leave the country

Short Answer Questions

1. How many judges did Mandela have to nominate for the TRC?

2. How long did Tutu stay at the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

3. What court was Judge Mohamed assigned to, according to Tutu?

4. What did people fear would happen on the day of the first election that allowed black people to vote?

5. How did Tutu find the work at the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was red-baiting no longer effective?

2. What did apartheid supporters deliberately miss according to Tutu?

3. What realization dawned on the citizens according to Tutu?

4. What do theology and the witness of Jesus show according to Tutu?

5. Why did many people condemn the truth and reconciliation process according to "Chapter Four, What About Justice?"

6. What did some revolutionary splinter groups focus on according to Tutu?

7. What were Tutu's three primary goals as Tutu received his tenure as archbishop?

8. What did Tutu claim as the main weakness of the bill?

9. What was the racial superiority in South Africa based on?

10. Why was a young woman who dated a policeman devastated?

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