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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 does Tutu say perpetrators must acknowledge?
(a) Blacks are superior.
(b) They were wrong.
(c) The truth of their sins.
(d) Whites are barbarians.

2. What does Tutu express of humans and God?
(a) Humans don't believe in God.
(b) God loves every human.
(c) Humans displeased God.
(d) Humans failed God's plan.

3. What did the man in one of the TRC cases do after smelling the burning corpse of a murdered victim?
(a) Went to work.
(b) Went to a barbecue.
(c) Went home.
(d) Went to church.

4. What did the TRC struggle to avoid?
(a) Attempts at silencing it.
(b) Accusations of bias.
(c) Accusations of racism.
(d) Assassination attempts.

5. What made Botha pathetic during his hearing at the TRC?
(a) His crying.
(b) The number of lawyers he brought.
(c) His stubbornness and anger.
(d) His physical appearance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened during a hearing that made the media wonder if Tutu was the right man to head the TRC?

2. What did Winnie Mandela's bodyguard plead guilty to?

3. What does Tutu say many people forgot about the TRC according to "Chapter Eight, This Is My Brother, I Know These Shoes"?

4. What does Tutu believe about the white Afrikaner minority in "Chapter Ten, We Did Not Know"?

5. Who was Mandela's wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tutu wonder about God in "Chapter Seven, We Do Want to Forgive, But We Don't Know Whom to Forgive"?

2. What did Rwanda teach Tutu about genocide in "Chapter Eleven, Without Forgiveness There Really Is No Future"?

3. What did Tutu find out about himself in 1997?

4. Why were many graves opened?

5. What does Tutu caution about forgiveness?

6. Why did Winnie Mandela want the hearing to be open to the public in "Chapter Eight, This is My Brother, I Know These Shoes"?

7. What were some black South Africans pressed into infiltrating?

8. What happened on August 31, 1988?

9. What did Tutu encourage the TRC workers and commissioners to do?

10. What did Tutu admit regarding the Anglican Church?

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