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

2. What South African town exploded in violence in 1996?

3. When was the new president of South Africa inaugurated?

4. What church is Desmond Tutu a part of?

5. Who would have been quick to lie in case of trials, according to Tutu?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was December 15 significant ? How was it transformed?

2. What was the TRC charged with according to "Chapter Six, A Victim Hearing"?

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

4. What was still in force when Desmond Tutu became Archbishop in 1986?

5. Why was April 27, 1994 significant according to "Chapter One, The Prelude"?

6. Why did Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd come under attack?

7. What was significant about May 10?

8. What would no one admit to according to "Chapter Two, Nuremberg or National Amnesia? A Third Way"?

9. What did the TRC have to focus on? How was it defined?

10. What did the South African people have to figure out according to Tutu?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of voting in South Africa in 1994.

Essay Topic 2

Examine Tutu's realizations regarding humanity and God after the end of apartheid and determine why these were significant.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the flaws of the TRC as discussed by Tutu and examine why each was significant to the hearings regarding apartheid.

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