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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven, We Do Want To Forgive, But We Don't Know Whom To Forgive.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do some ANC members have to go before the TRC commission?
(a) To testify against Winnie Mandela.
(b) To testify against prison guards.
(c) To justify the killing of white school children.
(d) Because of bombings by the ANC.

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

3. Why was the TRC not popular in some parts according to Tutu?
(a) People didn't want to part with their slaves.
(b) People didn't want their past revealed.
(c) People wanted revenge.
(d) People saw it as a waste of money.

4. What board was in charge of reassigning members of the same family based on their color according to Tutu?
(a) The Black Board.
(b) The Family Racial Board.
(c) The Good White Family Board.
(d) The Race Classification Board.

5. What was put in place after the presidential election of 1994?
(a) A new elite guard.
(b) A new constitution.
(c) A new parliament.
(d) A new army.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the TRC according to Tutu in "Chapter Four, What About Justice"?

2. What did the man in one of the TRC cases do after smelling the burning corpse of a murdered victim?

3. Tutu described the struggle for racial equality as being a ______________.

4. What did the black government choose not to do after the end of South Africa's segregation?

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

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