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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. Tutu expressed that no one can be ______________and be alone.
(a) Human.
(b) Repentant.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Honest.

2. What was the goal of the TRC according to Tutu?
(a) To give blacks a target.
(b) To make the victims feel like children of God again.
(c) To humiliate whites.
(d) To punish the guilty.

3. What happened to Botha between 1988 and his hearing before the TRC?
(a) He killed a man.
(b) He suffered a stroke.
(c) He was diagnosed with cancer.
(d) He was shot.

4. What did Tutu's cancer help him do?
(a) See a white doctor.
(b) See living as a good thing.
(c) Be more realistic about man.
(d) Become more laid back.

5. What does Tutu state about the commissioners at the beginning of the TRC mandate?
(a) They were hard working.
(b) They were honest.
(c) They were white.
(d) They acted like prima donnas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What made Botha pathetic during his hearing at the TRC?

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

3. What does Tutu say many people do not want to expose?

4. What were TRC workers and commissioners encouraged to have?

5. What happened during a hearing that made the media wonder if Tutu was the right man to head the TRC?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did Tutu admit about conditioning?

8. Why were many graves opened?

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

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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