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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 say many people do not want to expose?

2. Why was the racist government of South Africa supported by Britain and the United States ?

3. What was the goal of the TRC according to Tutu?

4. What did Tutu criticize in Israel?

5. What does Tutu say he understood despite not being able to exonerate Winnie Mandela?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why were the interpreters shattered?

5. What did Tutu wonder about himself in "Chapter Nine, Why The Heck Am I Doing This Thankless Job?"

6. Why were many graves opened?

7. Why was reconciliation in jeopardy in South Africa?

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

9. What did Tutu say was a profound sin?

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

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

Examine why the commission's neutrality came under question and why neutrality in hearings was necessary.

Essay Topic 3

Examine Tutu's focus on forgiveness and reconciliation and why it would be difficult in South Africa.

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