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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. Whom does Tutu maintain could also commit terrible crimes?
(a) Youths.
(b) Black.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

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

3. Why did Tutu meet Botha in 1988?
(a) To read with him.
(b) To try to kill him.
(c) To try to have him spare the life of six prisoners.
(d) To take his confession.

4. What does Tutu believe about the white Afrikaner minority in "Chapter Ten, We Did Not Know"?
(a) They were castaways.
(b) They could have ended apartheid.
(c) They were traitors.
(d) They were powerless.

5. What did Tutu wonder he should have done according to "Chapter Nine, Why The Heck Am I Doing This Thankless Job"?
(a) Have his head examined.
(b) Run for president.
(c) Resign his commission.
(d) Retire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of cancer did Tutu find out he had while on the TRC?

2. What does Tutu say God feels for his creation?

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

4. When did Tutu visit Rwanda?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the interpreters shattered?

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

3. Why were many graves opened?

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

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

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

7. What happened on August 31, 1988?

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 does everyone have the capacity for according to Tutu?

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

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