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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Five, Up and Running.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tutu marvel at in "Chapter Five, Up and Running"?
(a) The strength of his will.
(b) The courage of the whites that came before the commission.
(c) The number of cases.
(d) The level of forgiveness of the victims.

2. What does Tutu say the trials under Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act ensured?
(a) Knowledge of the law.
(b) Public humiliation.
(c) The public would know who to get revenge against.
(d) Christians would not be found guilty.

3. What did the black government choose not to do after the end of South Africa's segregation?
(a) Not to kill all white people.
(b) Create Nuremberg like trials.
(c) Rescind racist laws.
(d) Let the white people leave the country.

4. According to Tutu, what would forgetting the past do to the segregation victims?
(a) Make them turn to violence.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Make them disappear.
(d) Victimize them twice.

5. What were the victims asked to do on behalf of freedom from the past according to Tutu?
(a) Meet their victim.
(b) Pay a high price.
(c) Write an apology note.
(d) Lose their family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the chief of the Inkatha Freedom Party in 1994?

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

3. What did December 16th become after 1994?

4. Where was the first TRC meeting held?

5. What did Tutu first suggest that TRC members do before abandoning the idea in face of protests?

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