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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 does Tutu say many people forgot about the TRC according to "Chapter Eight, This Is My Brother, I Know These Shoes"?
(a) Blacks and whites were put on the stand.
(b) The judges were black and white.
(c) It didn't condemn anyone.
(d) It prevented bloodshed.

2. What did Tutu criticize in Israel?
(a) Israel treatment of Palestinians.
(b) Israel's treatment of women.
(c) Its bombing of Iran.
(d) Its war against Libya.

3. What did Tutu believe tarnished the image of the TRC?
(a) Condemned black people.
(b) Let white people go free.
(c) Accepted false testimonies.
(d) It leaked secrets.

4. What does Tutu say God feels for his creation?
(a) Anger.
(b) Pity.
(c) Loss.
(d) Pride.

5. 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 Senate.
(c) The State Security Council.
(d) The South Africa Army.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Dutch Reformed Church do for the apartheid government prior to 1994?

3. At what TRC hearing did Winnie Mandela come to, according to Tutu?

4. What type of staff does Tutu say were forced to put atrocities into their own words?

5. Who was Mandela's wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Tutu admit regarding the Anglican Church?

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

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

5. Why was reconciliation in jeopardy in South Africa?

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

7. What does Tutu caution about forgiveness?

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

9. What did Rwanda teach Tutu about genocide in "Chapter Eleven, Without Forgiveness There Really Is No Future"?

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

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