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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 does Tutu state the ANC was not exempt of in 1994?

2. What did many people see the TRC doing?

3. Why does Tutu assert Mandela had enormous credibility?

4. What prime minister rescinded the ban of political organization like the ANC?

5. What does Tutu say happened on the first day of the TRC hearings?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nelson Mandela impress many?

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

3. What was significant about May 10?

4. What did Tutu claim as the main weakness of the bill?

5. Why was a young woman who dated a policeman devastated?

6. Why did Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd come under attack?

7. Why was April 27, 1994 significant according to "Chapter One, The Prelude"?

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

9. What was the TRC charged with according to "Chapter Six, A Victim Hearing"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of conformity among apartheid supporters and the white Afrikaner minority.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Examine Tutu's realizations regarding humanity and God after the end of apartheid and determine why these were significant.

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