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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How many people died due to Apartheid terrorism?
(a) 1.25 million.
(b) 3.5 millions.
(c) 1.5 million.
(d) 0.5 million.

7. What made Botha pathetic during his hearing at the TRC?
(a) His stubbornness and anger.
(b) The number of lawyers he brought.
(c) His crying.
(d) His physical appearance.

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

9. What did the man in one of the TRC cases do after smelling the burning corpse of a murdered victim?
(a) Went to work.
(b) Went to church.
(c) Went to a barbecue.
(d) Went home.

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

11. Who was Mandela's wife?
(a) Nelly Mandela.
(b) Winnie Mandela.
(c) Susan Mandela.
(d) Martha Mandela.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Tutu say some black South Africans were forced to do in order to keep their family safe?

4. What does Tutu state cannot be found in South Africa today?

5. What did the TRC struggle to avoid?

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