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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the African Defense Force used prior to 1994?
(a) To patrol black slums.
(b) To stop "Communism" by president Botha.
(c) To eliminate political opponents.
(d) To deport black people.

2. What reason does Tutu give for people in Rwanda listening to him?
(a) His work in South Africa gave him credibility.
(b) He was black.
(c) He was a clergyman.
(d) He had the backing of the South Africa Army.

3. What does Tutu say many people forgot about the TRC according to "Chapter Eight, This Is My Brother, I Know These Shoes"?
(a) It prevented bloodshed.
(b) The judges were black and white.
(c) It didn't condemn anyone.
(d) Blacks and whites were put on the stand.

4. 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 he accepted his commission.
(b) How he can still believe in God.
(c) Why man continued to sin.
(d) How God views humanity.

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

6. What does Tutu state happened to many of the TRC staff?
(a) They were shattered.
(b) They killed themselves.
(c) They were killed.
(d) They were fired.

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

8. What did the Dutch Reformed Church do for the apartheid government prior to 1994?
(a) Hid black fugitives.
(b) Denounced confession for whites.
(c) Provided a theological rationale for apartheid.
(d) Provided interrogation rooms.

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

10. What does Tutu say his cancer helped him identify with?
(a) The sinners of the world.
(b) Drug addicts.
(c) Victims of apartheid.
(d) Victims of poor medical care.

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

12. Why was the racist government of South Africa supported by Britain and the United States ?
(a) They were buying a lot of military equipment.
(b) They had oil reserves.
(c) They were a nuclear power.
(d) It was were anti-communist.

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

14. Who blamed Botha and his entourage for everything that went wrong at the end of the apartheid regime?
(a) The State Security Council.
(b) The Security Group.
(c) The State Senate.
(d) The South Africa Army.

15. Whom does Tutu maintain could also commit terrible crimes?
(a) Men.
(b) Youths.
(c) Women.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was forgiveness NOT according to Tutu?

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

3. Why was the TRC's neutrality questioned at the start of its mandate?

4. What did the TRC struggle to avoid?

5. What did the man in one of the TRC cases do after smelling the burning corpse of a murdered victim?

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