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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. Who blamed Botha and his entourage for everything that went wrong at the end of the apartheid regime?
(a) The Security Group.
(b) The State Security Council.
(c) The South Africa Army.
(d) The State Senate.

2. What does Tutu say he understood despite not being able to exonerate Winnie Mandela?
(a) Anyone could buckle under pressure.
(b) She was a patriotic woman.
(c) Women could be bad too.
(d) Anyone could be a monster.

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

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

5. In what capacity did Tutu visit Rwanda?
(a) As a private citizen.
(b) As head of the TRC.
(c) As president of South Africa.
(d) As president of the All Africa Council of Churches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Tutu maintain could also commit terrible crimes?

2. Who followed the TRC workers and commissioners, according to the "Postscript"?

3. What did the man in one of the TRC cases do after smelling the burning corpse of a murdered victim?

4. What did Tutu encourage TRC workers and commissioners to deal with?

5. What was forgiveness NOT according to Tutu?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Tutu caution about forgiveness?

4. Why were many graves opened?

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

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

7. What happened on August 31, 1988?

8. Why was reconciliation in jeopardy in South Africa?

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

10. What did Tutu admit about conditioning?

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