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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. What type of justice did South Africa use in the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act?
(a) Quick justice.
(b) Restorative justice.
(c) Retributive justice.
(d) Mob justice.

2. What does Tutu say of the politicians who crafted the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act?
(a) They were going too fast.
(b) They were white.
(c) They were saints.
(d) They were self interested.

3. What other approach, beside trials, does Tutu believe was not the right one either?
(a) Blanket amnesty.
(b) Death squads.
(c) Ex-communication.
(d) Banishment.

4. When were the black people of South Africa allowed to vote for the first time according to "Chapter One, The Prelude"?
(a) April 27, 1994.
(b) March 28, 1994.
(c) April 17, 1994.
(d) April 27, 1994.

5. Why were the unarmed schoolchildren shot and killed during the Soweto violence in 1976?
(a) For not saluting the flag.
(b) For going to school.
(c) For looting.
(d) For protesting.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tutu find the work at the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

2. According to Tutu, the ANC was not merely ______________.

3. How many people died during the Sharpeville Massacre?

4. What church is Desmond Tutu a part of?

5. What foreign leader's extradition did Tutu say he supported?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tutu argue when he reproduces a statement from Judge Mohamed?

2. Why was December 15 significant ? How was it transformed?

3. What did TRC have to constantly emphasize?

4. What did Tutu marvel at?

5. What was significant about May 10?

6. What was Archbishop Tutu chosen to head up when he was about to go on sabbatical in "Chapter Five, Up and Running?"

7. What realization dawned on the citizens according to Tutu?

8. Why couldn't Tutu support blanket amnesty?

9. How does Nelson Mandela impress many?

10. What would no one admit to according to "Chapter Two, Nuremberg or National Amnesia? A Third Way"?

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