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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. Who was Mandela's wife?

2. How was the African Defense Force used prior to 1994?

3. What does Tutu say his cancer helped him identify with?

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

5. What does Tutu state about the commissioners at the beginning of the TRC mandate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Tutu say was a profound sin?

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

6. Where was Tutu's message unpopular and why?

7. What did Tutu admit regarding the Anglican Church?

8. What did Tutu wonder about God in "Chapter Seven, We Do Want to Forgive, But We Don't Know Whom to Forgive"?

9. Why were the interpreters shattered?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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