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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What foreign leader's extradition did Tutu say he supported?

2. Where did Tutu decide to vote for the first election open to black people?

3. What prize did Tutu win in 1984?

4. The 1994 presidential election in South Africa was certified as being _______________.

5. Why were the unarmed schoolchildren shot and killed during the Soweto violence in 1976?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did some revolutionary splinter groups focus on according to Tutu?

2. Why was the commission humbled?

3. What was the racial superiority in South Africa based on?

4. What was the Sharpeville Massacre? When did it occur?

5. What would no one admit to according to "Chapter Two, Nuremberg or National Amnesia? A Third Way"?

6. What did the TRC have to focus on? How was it defined?

7. What was significant about May 10?

8. Why does Tutu say the South Africans stood tall?

9. Why was December 15 significant ? How was it transformed?

10. What did the South African people have to figure out according to Tutu?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the flaws of the TRC as discussed by Tutu and examine why each was significant to the hearings regarding apartheid.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the gross violation of human rights focused on by the TRC and how these were defined.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the impact of the allegations made by the bodyguards of Winnie Mandela and why she was complicit.

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