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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The 1994 presidential election in South Africa was certified as being _______________.
(a) Unfair.
(b) Rigged.
(c) Outdated.
(d) Fair and free.

2. What were the victims asked to do on behalf of freedom from the past according to Tutu?
(a) Write an apology note.
(b) Pay a high price.
(c) Meet their victim.
(d) Lose their family.

3. Tutu stated the South African regime was _____________.
(a) Pigmentocratic.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Autocratic.
(d) Bureaucratic.

4. Why was the TRC not popular in some parts according to Tutu?
(a) People didn't want to part with their slaves.
(b) People saw it as a waste of money.
(c) People wanted revenge.
(d) People didn't want their past revealed.

5. Who participated in a special unit task force in Tutu's story?
(a) A housewife.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A school teacher.
(d) A policeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tutu say was not required in order to plead guilty under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act?

2. What does Tutu assert sometimes happened to those pleading guilty under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act?

3. How was the location of the first TRC meeting used prior to 1994?

4. How old was Nelson Mandela in 1994?

5. How many goals did Tutu set for himself after his ordination in 1986?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Sharpeville Massacre? When did it occur?

2. What did Tutu argue about dehumanization according to "Chapter Three, In the Fullness of Time"?

3. What did Tutu marvel at?

4. Where was the TRC's center and why was it at this location?

5. What did Mandela know about reconciliation? What advice did Tutu give?

6. What do theology and the witness of Jesus show according to Tutu?

7. What did the TRC have to focus on? How was it defined?

8. Why was red-baiting no longer effective?

9. What did TRC have to constantly emphasize?

10. Why couldn't Tutu support blanket amnesty?

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