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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. What happened during a hearing that made the media wonder if Tutu was the right man to head the TRC?
(a) He left abruptly.
(b) He cried in public.
(c) He drank alcohol.
(d) He fell asleep.

2. According to Tutu, what had helped him manage the fallout of the TRC problems?
(a) Self confidence.
(b) Control over the media.
(c) A good media director.
(d) God.

3. What did the Dutch Reformed Church do for the apartheid government prior to 1994?
(a) Hid black fugitives.
(b) Denounced confession for whites.
(c) Provided interrogation rooms.
(d) Provided a theological rationale for apartheid.

4. What does Tutu say he understood despite not being able to exonerate Winnie Mandela?
(a) Anyone could be a monster.
(b) Women could be bad too.
(c) Anyone could buckle under pressure.
(d) She was a patriotic woman.

5. What did the Rwandan genocide teach Tutu?
(a) Genocide happens everywhere.
(b) Racism is not the only reason for genocide.
(c) Rwanda needed more clergy.
(d) Restorative justice is not good.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tutu preach in Rwanda?

2. How many volumes did the TRC commission issue on Winnie Mandela?

3. What did Tutu criticize in Israel?

4. What does Tutu believe about the white Afrikaner minority in "Chapter Ten, We Did Not Know"?

5. What did Tutu's cancer help him do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tutu admit regarding the Anglican Church?

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

3. What does everyone have the capacity for according to Tutu?

4. Why were the interpreters shattered?

5. What did Tutu encourage the TRC workers and commissioners to do?

6. What did Tutu admit about conditioning?

7. What does Tutu caution about forgiveness?

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

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

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

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