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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did those pleading guilty under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act get?
(a) A deferred sentence.
(b) Money.
(c) Full amnesty.
(d) A fine.

2. Who asked Tutu to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
(a) Tutu volunteered.
(b) The United Nations.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) Mandela.

3. When did the TRC hold its first hearing?
(a) April, 1996.
(b) April, 1997.
(c) April, 1998.
(d) May, 1996.

4. Who won the 1994 presidential election?
(a) Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
(b) Demond Tutu.
(c) Robert Butha.
(d) Nelson Mandela.

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

6. What does Tutu say Mandela thought the reconciliation had to be?
(a) Quick.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Headed by black people.
(d) Headed by white people.

7. What post did the "high priest" of South Africa segregation hold?
(a) President.
(b) Cabinet of Race.
(c) Interior ministry.
(d) Prime Minister.

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

9. Tutu alerted the Anglican Communion of ______________.
(a) A need for prayer.
(b) Racist preachers.
(c) Whites not communing.
(d) Non believers in the TRC.

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

11. What was put in place after the presidential election of 1994?
(a) A new elite guard.
(b) A new parliament.
(c) A new constitution.
(d) A new army.

12. 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 not conducting a witch hunt.
(d) They were racially blind.

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

14. What does Tutu say impressed many observers and the South African people?
(a) Mandela's dignity.
(b) Mandela's resilience to torture.
(c) Mandela's writing skills.
(d) Mandela's willpower.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tutu say was not required in order to plead guilty under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act?

2. What does Tutu state the ANC was not exempt of in 1994?

3. What was the TRC in charge of providing according to "Chapter Six, A Victim Hearing"?

4. When did the worst part of South African Apartheid start?

5. How many people sent their statement that they wanted recorded?

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