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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 he should have done according to "Chapter Nine, Why The Heck Am I Doing This Thankless Job"?
(a) Retire.
(b) Have his head examined.
(c) Resign his commission.
(d) Run for president.

2. What does Tutu maintain oppressors can do to their victims?
(a) Kill them.
(b) Torture them.
(c) Make them doubt they are children of God.
(d) Make them feel worthless.

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

4. According to Tutu, what had helped him manage the fallout of the TRC problems?
(a) Control over the media.
(b) A good media director.
(c) Self confidence.
(d) God.

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

6. How was Tutu's message of peace perceived by Israel?
(a) It was unpopular.
(b) It was banned.
(c) It was popular.
(d) It was taught in schools.

7. How many volumes did the TRC commission issue on Winnie Mandela?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Eight.

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

9. At what TRC hearing did Winnie Mandela come to, according to Tutu?
(a) The one held for her brother.
(b) The one held for the policeman who tried to kill her.
(c) The one held for her bodyguards.
(d) The one helf for her.

10. Tutu expressed that no one can be ______________and be alone.
(a) Repentant.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Human.
(d) Honest.

11. Tutu believed the TRC saved South Africa from ______________.
(a) Black domination.
(b) White domination.
(c) Invasion.
(d) The brink of disaster.

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

13. What was the goal of the TRC according to Tutu?
(a) To give blacks a target.
(b) To punish the guilty.
(c) To humiliate whites.
(d) To make the victims feel like children of God again.

14. What did Winnie Mandela's bodyguard plead guilty to?
(a) Murder.
(b) Intimidation.
(c) Torture.
(d) Kidnapping and murder.

15. What does Tutu say some black South Africans were forced to do in order to keep their family safe?
(a) Kill black activists.
(b) Pledge to the white government.
(c) Infiltrate the ANC.
(d) Plead guilty on trumped up charges.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who blamed Botha and his entourage for everything that went wrong at the end of the apartheid regime?

2. What does Tutu express of humans and God?

3. What reason does Tutu give for people in Rwanda listening to him?

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

5. Why do some ANC members have to go before the TRC commission?

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