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

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

3. What happened on August, 1988?
(a) A bomb exploded in the Khotso House.
(b) Soweto was bulldozed.
(c) Adriaan Vlok was elected in office.
(d) Mandela was jailed.

4. What did many apartheid supporters say they saw anti-apartheid movements as being during their TRC hearing?
(a) Communism.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Capitalistm

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the goal of the TRC according to Tutu?

2. What does Tutu say many people forgot about the TRC according to "Chapter Eight, This Is My Brother, I Know These Shoes"?

3. Why was reconciliation in jeopardy in South Africa according to Tutu?

4. What does Tutu say he understood despite not being able to exonerate Winnie Mandela?

5. What does Tutu state about the commissioners at the beginning of the TRC mandate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Winnie Mandela want the hearing to be open to the public in "Chapter Eight, This is My Brother, I Know These Shoes"?

2. What was the worst thing about apartheid according to Tutu?

3. What did Tutu admit about conditioning?

4. What were TRC workers and commissioners encouraged to do by health staff according to the "Postscript"?

5. What did Tutu see as the greatest weakness of the TRC?

6. Where was Tutu's message unpopular and why?

7. What happened on August 31, 1988?

8. What did Tutu encourage the TRC workers and commissioners to do?

9. What does everyone have the capacity for according to Tutu?

10. What did Tutu find out about himself in 1997?

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