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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What was the other name of Winnie Mandela's bodyguard team?
(a) The Mandela Bone Breakers.
(b) Winnie's Men.
(c) The Winnie Security Team.
(d) The Mandela United Football Team.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tutu meet Botha in 1988?

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

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

4. Tutu expressed that no one can be ______________and be alone.

5. What did many apartheid supporters say they saw anti-apartheid movements as being during their TRC hearing?

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