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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. What type of cancer did Tutu find out he had while on the TRC?

2. What did many apartheid supporters say they saw anti-apartheid movements as being during their TRC hearing?

3. What does Tutu state cannot be found in South Africa today?

4. What does Tutu say Mandela's wife benefited from between 1992 and 1996?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose confessions implicated Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela's ex-wife?

2. What did Tutu say was a profound sin?

3. What were some black South Africans pressed into infiltrating?

4. What did Tutu find out about himself in 1997?

5. What accusation was made against a commissioner and how was it handled?

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

7. What was the worst thing about apartheid according to Tutu?

8. What did Tutu admit about conditioning?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of voting in South Africa in 1994.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the gross violation of human rights focused on by the TRC and how these were defined.

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