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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven, We Do Want To Forgive, But We Don't Know Whom To Forgive.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were the unarmed schoolchildren shot and killed during the Soweto violence in 1976?
(a) For looting.
(b) For not saluting the flag.
(c) For protesting.
(d) For going to school.

2. What did the black government choose not to do after the end of South Africa's segregation?
(a) Rescind racist laws.
(b) Let the white people leave the country.
(c) Not to kill all white people.
(d) Create Nuremberg like trials.

3. Why was the TRC not popular in some parts according to Tutu?
(a) People saw it as a waste of money.
(b) People wanted revenge.
(c) People didn't want their past revealed.
(d) People didn't want to part with their slaves.

4. What did many people see the TRC doing?
(a) Asking the victim to leave the country.
(b) Asking the victim to forget.
(c) Asking the guilty to denounce others.
(d) Asking the victim to give up the pursuit of retribution.

5. What other approach, beside trials, does Tutu believe was not the right one either?
(a) Banishment.
(b) Ex-communication.
(c) Blanket amnesty.
(d) Death squads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Tutu maintain could also commit terrible crimes?

2. What does Tutu say of the whites that came forward to the TRC?

3. What political ideologies did the ANC encompass according to Tutu?

4. What board was in charge of reassigning members of the same family based on their color according to Tutu?

5. Under what conditions were the trials under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act held?

(see the answer key)

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