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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why did Tutu fight to prevent the TRC from giving a special hearing to the ANC?
(a) The TRC didn't have the time.
(b) The ANC had already held its hearing.
(c) Tutu wanted to keep the ANC out of the TRC hearings.
(d) To avoid looking like a lackey of the ANC.

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

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

6. What did Tutu criticize in Israel?
(a) Its bombing of Iran.
(b) Its war against Libya.
(c) Israel treatment of Palestinians.
(d) Israel's treatment of women.

7. What did the TRC struggle to avoid?
(a) Accusations of bias.
(b) Assassination attempts.
(c) Accusations of racism.
(d) Attempts at silencing it.

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

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

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

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

12. When did Tutu visit Rwanda?
(a) In the mid-90's.
(b) In the mid-80's.
(c) In the mid-70's.
(d) In the mid-60's.

13. Why do some ANC members have to go before the TRC commission?
(a) To testify against prison guards.
(b) Because of bombings by the ANC.
(c) To justify the killing of white school children.
(d) To testify against Winnie Mandela.

14. What was forgiveness NOT according to Tutu?
(a) Not punishing the guilty.
(b) Forgetting the crime.
(c) Forgiving the victim.
(d) Passing judgement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Tutu maintain could also commit terrible crimes?

2. What did Winnie Mandela's bodyguard plead guilty to?

3. How many volumes did the TRC commission issue on Winnie Mandela?

4. Tutu believed the TRC saved South Africa from ______________.

5. What does Tutu express of humans and God?

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