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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 were TRC workers and commissioners encouraged to take?
(a) Vacations.
(b) The TRC seriously.
(c) A second loan on their car.
(d) Breaks during the day.

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

3. What does Tutu assert many people did at the TRC?
(a) Cried.
(b) Revealed their vulnerability in public.
(c) Avoided answering questions.
(d) Admitted to murder.

4. What type of staff does Tutu say were forced to put atrocities into their own words?
(a) Witnesses.
(b) Interpreters.
(c) Transcribers.
(d) Judges.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the other name of Winnie Mandela's bodyguard team?

2. How many people died due to Apartheid terrorism?

3. What does Tutu say perpetrators must acknowledge?

4. Who was Mandela's wife?

5. What did Tutu do while Winnie Mandela was in exile?

Short Essay Questions

1. What accusation was made against a commissioner and how was it handled?

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

3. How were individuals, the economy, and animals affected by apartheid terrorism?

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

5. What were some black South Africans pressed into infiltrating?

6. What did Tutu say was shocking in "Chapter Ten, We Did Not Know"?

7. What did Tutu say was a profound sin?

8. What did Tutu wonder about himself in "Chapter Nine, Why The Heck Am I Doing This Thankless Job?"

9. What happened on August 31, 1988?

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

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