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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the ANC created?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1992.

2. When was dehumanization reciprocal according to Tutu in "Chapter Three, In the Fullness of Time"?
(a) When oppressors go free.
(b) When the oppressors were hurt.
(c) When victims were dead.
(d) When victims could have vengeance.

3. Where was the first TRC meeting held?
(a) Bishopcourt.
(b) East London.
(c) Cape Town.
(d) Johannesburg.

4. Tutu stated the South African regime was _____________.
(a) Autocratic.
(b) Bureaucratic.
(c) Pigmentocratic.
(d) Democratic.

5. How many black people were removed from their homes by the racist regime of South Africa?
(a) 3.9 million.
(b) 2.5 million.
(c) 4.5 million.
(d) 3.5 million.

6. Who asked Tutu to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
(a) The President of the United States.
(b) The United Nations.
(c) Mandela.
(d) Tutu volunteered.

7. Why does Tutu assert Mandela had enormous credibility?
(a) He was not broken by his time in prison.
(b) He was the oldest leader alive.
(c) He was a good orator.
(d) He went to prison for his ideas.

8. Tutu said the TRC spoke for ______________.
(a) The oppressors.
(b) White people.
(c) The victims.
(d) Black people.

9. Tutu said that he didn't seek a permit for ______________.
(a) Taking a wife.
(b) Driving.
(c) Travelling to Oslo.
(d) Staying in his diocese.

10. Who won the 1994 presidential election?
(a) Robert Butha.
(b) Nelson Mandela.
(c) Demond Tutu.
(d) Mangosuthu Buthelezi.

11. What post did the "high priest" of South Africa segregation hold?
(a) Interior ministry.
(b) President.
(c) Prime Minister.
(d) Cabinet of Race.

12. What did people with ties to the segregationist regime get for their confession?
(a) A light sentence.
(b) The right to leave the country
(c) Amnesty.
(d) Their lives spared.

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

14. Where were many of the black leaders educated according to Tutu?
(a) In white schools.
(b) Abroad.
(c) In prison.
(d) In Christian churches.

15. What does Tutu think would have happened if the prime minister had not rescinded the ban of reform organizations?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A victory for the white parties.
(c) A bloodbath.
(d) A large turn out of voters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the prime minister convince the white population it was in their best interest to do?

3. What does Tutu assert sometimes happened to those pleading guilty under the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act?

4. According to Tutu, the ANC was not merely ______________.

5. How many people sent their statement that they wanted recorded?

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