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

2. How was the African Defense Force used prior to 1994?
(a) To stop "Communism" by president Botha.
(b) To patrol black slums.
(c) To deport black people.
(d) To eliminate political opponents.

3. 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.

4. What does Tutu say perpetrators must acknowledge?
(a) Whites are barbarians.
(b) They were wrong.
(c) Blacks are superior.
(d) The truth of their sins.

5. What did Tutu encourage TRC workers and commissioners to deal with?
(a) Their feelings.
(b) Their family.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Their enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in Israel in the late 90's according to Tutu?

2. In what year did Tutu find out about having cancer?

3. What does Tutu say Mandela's wife benefited from between 1992 and 1996?

4. How many people died due to Apartheid terrorism?

5. What were TRC workers and commissioners encouraged to take?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose confessions implicated Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela's ex-wife?

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

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

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

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

6. What happened on August 31, 1988?

7. Why were the interpreters shattered?

8. What did Tutu wonder about God in "Chapter Seven, We Do Want to Forgive, But We Don't Know Whom to Forgive"?

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

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

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