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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What period did the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act apply to?
(a) 1960 to 1994.
(b) 1960 to 1996.
(c) 1950 to 1994.
(d) 1965 to 1994.

3. Where did Tutu decide to vote for the first election open to black people?
(a) A ghetto township.
(b) Johannesburg.
(c) East London.
(d) Cape Town.

4. How many judges did Mandela have to nominate for the TRC?
(a) 15 judges.
(b) 12 judges.
(c) 19 judges.
(d) 18 judges.

5. Tutu described the struggle for racial equality as being a ______________.
(a) Religious struggle.
(b) Struggle between good and bad.
(c) Struggle between right and wrong.
(d) Struggle between past and future.

6. What does Tutu say was in one's self interest?
(a) To leave the country.
(b) To kill the oppressors.
(c) To forgive.
(d) To forget.

7. Why were the unarmed schoolchildren shot and killed during the Soweto violence in 1976?
(a) For looting.
(b) For not saluting the flag.
(c) For protesting.
(d) For going to school.

8. What does Tutu state no one admitted defending after its end according to "Chapter Two, Nuremberg or National Amnesia? A Third Way"?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Equality.
(d) Apartheid.

9. What political ideologies did the ANC encompass according to Tutu?
(a) From democratic to Marxist.
(b) From Marxist to dictatorial.
(c) From Marxist to libertarian.
(d) From communist to Marxist.

10. Who does Tutu state was the "high priest" of South Africa segregation?
(a) Dr. Henry Vanderbilt.
(b) Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd.
(c) Desmond Tutu.
(d) Nelson Mandela.

11. What could Apartheid supporters not plead according to Tutu?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Quilty.
(c) Innocent.
(d) No contest.

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

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

14. What did Tutu have to do before becoming the Dean of Johannesburg?
(a) Register as a black person.
(b) Renounce terrorism.
(c) Receive an endorsement from the white population.
(d) Pledge to the government.

15. What does Tutu say happened on the first day of the TRC hearings?
(a) A bomb scare.
(b) White men cried.
(c) A judge fainted.
(d) A black woman died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prime minister rescinded the ban of political organization like the ANC?

2. What did December 16th become after 1994?

3. What does Tutu say of the whites that came forward to the TRC?

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

5. What did people with ties to the segregationist regime get for their confession?

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