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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Postscript.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the TRC in charge of providing according to "Chapter Six, A Victim Hearing"?
(a) Power to black people.
(b) A scapegoat.
(c) The illusion of fairness.
(d) A complete picture of human rights violations.

2. What did Tutu encourage TRC workers and commissioners to deal with?
(a) Their enemies.
(b) Their family.
(c) Their feelings.
(d) Their friends.

3. What political event does Tutu speculate could have helped prevent bloodshed?
(a) The disbanding of the ANC.
(b) The fall of communism.
(c) The rise of Mandela.
(d) The rise of capitalism.

4. How long did Tutu stay at the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
(a) Four years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tutu wonder at the start of "Chapter Seven, We Do Want To Forgive, But We Don't Know Whom To Forgive"?

2. Why was the TRC not popular in some parts according to Tutu?

3. What formed a bridge between the oppressive past of South Africa and his free future?

4. What does Tutu state about the commissioners at the beginning of the TRC mandate?

5. What did many apartheid supporters say they saw anti-apartheid movements as being during their TRC hearing?

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