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

Multiple Choice 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"?
(a) Why man continued to sin.
(b) Why he accepted his commission.
(c) How God views humanity.
(d) How he can still believe in God.

2. What did Tutu's cancer help him do?
(a) Be more realistic about man.
(b) See living as a good thing.
(c) See a white doctor.
(d) Become more laid back.

3. What does Tutu say the rebels did during apartheid?
(a) Killed children.
(b) Became as brutal as their oppressors.
(c) Kidnapped school teachers.
(d) Went to church.

4. What does Tutu say many people do not want to expose?
(a) Their vulnerabilities.
(b) Their thoughts.
(c) Their families.
(d) Their true beliefs.

5. Where was Mandela's wife while he was in prison?
(a) She was in prison.
(b) She was in exile.
(c) She was hiding.
(d) She was free.

6. What type of staff does Tutu say were forced to put atrocities into their own words?
(a) Judges.
(b) Witnesses.
(c) Interpreters.
(d) Transcribers.

7. What happened to Botha between 1988 and his hearing before the TRC?
(a) He was shot.
(b) He suffered a stroke.
(c) He was diagnosed with cancer.
(d) He killed a man.

8. Why did Tutu meet Botha in 1988?
(a) To read with him.
(b) To try to kill him.
(c) To take his confession.
(d) To try to have him spare the life of six prisoners.

9. What does Tutu say God feels for his creation?
(a) Pity.
(b) Pride.
(c) Anger.
(d) Loss.

10. Why was the TRC's neutrality questioned at the start of its mandate?
(a) The judges had no experience.
(b) The TRC was all black.
(c) Many staff were white.
(d) Mandela refused to testify.

11. What did Tutu believe tarnished the image of the TRC?
(a) Let white people go free.
(b) It leaked secrets.
(c) Condemned black people.
(d) Accepted false testimonies.

12. What happened during a hearing that made the media wonder if Tutu was the right man to head the TRC?
(a) He drank alcohol.
(b) He fell asleep.
(c) He left abruptly.
(d) He cried in public.

13. Who many elephants and rhinos died due to apartheid terrorism?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 500,000.

14. What were TRC workers and commissioners encouraged to have?
(a) Neutral clothes.
(b) Guns.
(c) A support system.
(d) Bodyguards.

15. What did Winnie Mandela preside over in 1995?
(a) The TRC.
(b) The ANC women's chapter.
(c) The republic of South African
(d) The ANC women's League.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tutu say his cancer helped him identify with?

2. In what year did Tutu find out about having cancer?

3. What did Tutu criticize in Israel?

4. What happened in Israel in the late 90's according to Tutu?

5. What did the Rwandan genocide teach Tutu?

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