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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Tutu fight to prevent the TRC from giving a special hearing to the ANC?
(a) Tutu wanted to keep the ANC out of the TRC hearings.
(b) To avoid looking like a lackey of the ANC.
(c) The ANC had already held its hearing.
(d) The TRC didn't have the time.

2. What did many apartheid supporters say they saw anti-apartheid movements as being during their TRC hearing?
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Capitalistm
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

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

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

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

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

7. Why do some ANC members have to go before the TRC commission?
(a) Because of bombings by the ANC.
(b) To justify the killing of white school children.
(c) To testify against Winnie Mandela.
(d) To testify against prison guards.

8. What were TRC workers and commissioners encouraged to take?
(a) The TRC seriously.
(b) Breaks during the day.
(c) Vacations.
(d) A second loan on their car.

9. Who followed the TRC workers and commissioners, according to the "Postscript"?
(a) Bodyguards.
(b) Mental health staff.
(c) Fans.
(d) Stalkers.

10. Why were the TRC workers and commissioners encouraged to stay disciplined?
(a) To avoid being emotional.
(b) To avoid arguments.
(c) To not disintegrate.
(d) To avoid appearing bias.

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

12. What does Tutu say perpetrators must acknowledge?
(a) They were wrong.
(b) Whites are barbarians.
(c) The truth of their sins.
(d) Blacks are superior.

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

14. 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 cried in public.
(d) He left abruptly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the racist government of South Africa supported by Britain and the United States ?

2. What did Tutu's cancer help him do?

3. What does Tutu say he understood despite not being able to exonerate Winnie Mandela?

4. Why was reconciliation in jeopardy in South Africa according to Tutu?

5. What does Tutu maintain oppressors can do to their victims?

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