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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tutu say Mandela's wife benefited from between 1992 and 1996?
(a) White control.
(b) The ANC donations.
(c) Killings and assaults committed by her bodyguards.
(d) The imprisonment of Nelson Mandela.

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

3. What did Tutu think his cancer represented?
(a) The cost for working with the previous white government.
(b) The cost for his sins.
(c) The cost of his work.
(d) The cost of his drinking habit.

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

5. What did Tutu preach in Rwanda?
(a) The use of restorative justice.
(b) The use of punitive justice.
(c) The use of mob justice.
(d) The use of Christian justice.

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

7. What did Tutu do while Winnie Mandela was in exile?
(a) He transmitted her correspondence.
(b) He allowed her to move abroad.
(c) He hid her location.
(d) He took her communion.

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

9. What happened to Botha between 1988 and his hearing before the TRC?
(a) He killed a man.
(b) He suffered a stroke.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He was diagnosed with cancer.

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

11. Why was the TRC's neutrality questioned at the start of its mandate?
(a) The TRC was all black.
(b) Many staff were white.
(c) Mandela refused to testify.
(d) The judges had no experience.

12. What does Tutu express of humans and God?
(a) Humans displeased God.
(b) God loves every human.
(c) Humans don't believe in God.
(d) Humans failed God's plan.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Botha pathetic during his hearing at the TRC?

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

3. What does Tutu say God feels for his creation?

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

5. How was Tutu's message of peace perceived by Israel?

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