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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the Rwandan genocide teach Tutu?
(a) Restorative justice is not good.
(b) Rwanda needed more clergy.
(c) Genocide happens everywhere.
(d) Racism is not the only reason for genocide.

6. What does Tutu believe about the white Afrikaner minority in "Chapter Ten, We Did Not Know"?
(a) They were powerless.
(b) They could have ended apartheid.
(c) They were traitors.
(d) They were castaways.

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

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

9. What does Tutu state cannot be found in South Africa today?
(a) Supporters of apartheid.
(b) Oil.
(c) Black bankers.
(d) White farmers.

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

11. What did Adriaan Vlok admit at his TRC hearing?
(a) To having been an undercover ANC agent.
(b) To having an order to bomb the Khotso House.
(c) To having killed a black aide.
(d) To having plotted against Mandela.

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

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

14. Why does Tutu say many accepted the apartheid system?
(a) It was comfortable and familiar.
(b) It was practical.
(c) It was good for tourism.
(d) It was profitable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tutu state happened to many of the TRC staff?

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

3. How was the African Defense Force used prior to 1994?

4. What type of cancer did Tutu find out he had while on the TRC?

5. What did Tutu wonder at the start of "Chapter Seven, We Do Want To Forgive, But We Don't Know Whom To Forgive"?

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