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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eight, This Is My Brother, I Know These Shoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Tutu in 1994?
(a) 52 years old.
(b) 62 years old.
(c) 95 years old.
(d) 43 years old.

2. What does Tutu express he and the TRC had to constantly emphasize?
(a) Blacks were honest.
(b) They were only prosecuting whites.
(c) They were racially blind.
(d) They were not conducting a witch hunt.

3. What formed a bridge between the oppressive past of South Africa and his free future?
(a) The blood of the oppressors.
(b) The constitution.
(c) The guilty verdict against the ex-president.
(d) Nelson Mandela.

4. What did many people see the TRC doing?
(a) Asking the guilty to denounce others.
(b) Asking the victim to leave the country.
(c) Asking the victim to forget.
(d) Asking the victim to give up the pursuit of retribution.

5. Where did the former segregationists live in 1994 according to Tutu?
(a) In South America.
(b) In Europe.
(c) In Mozambique.
(d) Still in South Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the new president of South Africa inaugurated?

2. What does Tutu say some black South Africans were forced to do in order to keep their family safe?

3. What does Tutu say Mandela thought the reconciliation had to be?

4. Who won the 1994 presidential election?

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

(see the answer key)

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