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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. How was the location of the first TRC meeting used prior to 1994?
(a) White supremacist meetings.
(b) As a market.
(c) To hand black thiefs.
(d) Resistance to apartheid meetings.

2. Who was Prime Minister in South Africa in 1996?
(a) T.C. Williams.
(b) B.J. Vorster.
(c) A.J. Vanderburgh.
(d) H.B. Berk.

3. How does Tutu explain why there was no bloodshed during the end of Apartheid?
(a) The whites fled the country.
(b) The blacks had no weapons.
(c) It was the right time.
(d) The army was deployed everywhere.

4. Who composed the ANC as of 1994?
(a) Two ethnic groups.
(b) One black and one white party.
(c) A large coalition of political groups.
(d) One thousand people.

5. 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) Rescind racist laws.
(c) Create Nuremberg like trials.
(d) Let the white people leave the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 1994 presidential election in South Africa was certified as being _______________.

2. How long did Mandela spend in prison?

3. What was Tutu preparing for when he was asked to be the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, according to "Chapter Five, Up and Running"?

4. What does Tutu say happened to black people injured on the side of the road when an ambulance for whites arrived in the story he recounted?

5. What prize did Tutu win in 1984?

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