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

2. What formed a bridge between the oppressive past of South Africa and his free future?
(a) Nelson Mandela.
(b) The blood of the oppressors.
(c) The guilty verdict against the ex-president.
(d) The constitution.

3. Tutu was challenged by the media because _______________.
(a) He was too old.
(b) The commission had a Christian emphasis.
(c) He was a friend of Mandela.
(d) He collaborated wtih the white government.

4. Who asked Tutu to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
(a) The United Nations.
(b) The President of the United States.
(c) Mandela.
(d) Tutu volunteered.

5. What post did the "high priest" of South Africa segregation hold?
(a) President.
(b) Cabinet of Race.
(c) Interior ministry.
(d) Prime Minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tutu say was not required in order to plead guilty under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act?

2. Who composed the ANC as of 1994?

3. What prime minister rescinded the ban of political organization like the ANC?

4. How old was Tutu in 1994?

5. When was Tutu nominated as the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did TRC have to constantly emphasize?

3. Why does Tutu say the South Africans stood tall?

4. What was the Sharpeville Massacre? When did it occur?

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

6. Why was red-baiting no longer effective?

7. What did Mandela know about reconciliation? What advice did Tutu give?

8. What was still in force when Desmond Tutu became Archbishop in 1986?

9. What did all groups of the ANC agree to?

10. What was significant about May 10?

(see the answer keys)

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