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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many judges did Mandela have to nominate for the TRC?
(a) 19 judges.
(b) 12 judges.
(c) 18 judges.
(d) 15 judges.

3. What were the victims asked to do on behalf of freedom from the past according to Tutu?
(a) Meet their victim.
(b) Lose their family.
(c) Pay a high price.
(d) Write an apology note.

4. What South African town exploded in violence in 1996?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Cape Town.
(c) East London.
(d) Soweto.

5. Who does Tutu state was the "high priest" of South Africa segregation?
(a) Nelson Mandela.
(b) Dr. Henry Vanderbilt.
(c) Desmond Tutu.
(d) Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did people with ties to the segregationist regime get for their confession?

2. How many ministers were on the TRC board the first year?

3. When did the worst part of South African Apartheid start?

4. According to Tutu, what would forgetting the past do to the segregation victims?

5. Who composed the ANC as of 1994?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tutu marvel at?

2. What do theology and the witness of Jesus show according to Tutu?

3. Why was the commission humbled?

4. What was Archbishop Tutu chosen to head up when he was about to go on sabbatical in "Chapter Five, Up and Running?"

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

6. What did Mandela know about reconciliation? What advice did Tutu give?

7. What were Tutu's three primary goals as Tutu received his tenure as archbishop?

8. What did the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act specify?

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

10. What did some revolutionary splinter groups focus on according to Tutu?

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