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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, A Victim Hearing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Tutu find the work at the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
(a) Unfullfiling.
(b) Difficult and exhilarating.
(c) Boring.
(d) Rewarding.

2. Tutu stated the South African regime was _____________.
(a) Pigmentocratic.
(b) Autocratic.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Bureaucratic.

3. What does Tutu say many people thought of the TRC?
(a) They saw it as immoral.
(b) They saw it as useless.
(c) They liked it.
(d) They ignored it.

4. What South African town exploded in violence in 1996?
(a) Cape Town.
(b) East London.
(c) Soweto.
(d) Johannesburg.

5. Why was the TRC center in Eastern Cape?
(a) The first race wars were fought there.
(b) Security was easier to manage.
(c) There was no room in Cape Town.
(d) It was cheaper than other options.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was put in place after the presidential election of 1994?

2. What does Tutu express he and the TRC had to constantly emphasize?

3. What did those pleading guilty under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act get?

4. According to Tutu, what would forgetting the past do to the segregation victims?

5. Why were the unarmed schoolchildren shot and killed during the Soweto violence in 1976?

(see the answer key)

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