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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tutu qualify the South African peace?

2. What formed a bridge between the oppressive past of South Africa and his free future?

3. What did Tutu grow to accept as a child?

4. When did the women become eligible for ordination in South Africa?

5. Who asked Tutu to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tutu marvel at?

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

3. What was significant about May 10?

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

5. What was the TRC charged with according to "Chapter Six, A Victim Hearing"?

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

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

8. What happened on the first day of TRC hearings?

9. Why couldn't Tutu support blanket amnesty?

10. What did the TRC have to focus on? How was it defined?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of the TRC, including its structure, purpose, and responsibilities.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Tutu's primary goals as Archbishop and determine whether or not his goals were achieved.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the education received by black South Africans under apartheid and what steps have been taken to resolve the educational issues since the end of apartheid.

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