Nelson Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom’
MCQ TYPES:
1. Statement Type
2. Dialogue Type
3. Question Type
4. Blank Type
5. Word-Meaning type, Opposite Meaning Type
6. Half line type
7. Balanced Type
8. Arrange Type
9. Synonym or Antonym type
Statements: for MCQ
Note: *The students have to learn some important statements from the lesson and also should know the whole lesson for any uncommon statements and questions.
*Below are the some important statements on the
lesson, ‘NELSON MANDELA: A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM’.
Statements MCQ & point wise summary on ‘Nelson
Mandela: A long Walk to Freedom’:
*MCQ questions are mentioned in below the statements.
1. Nelson Mandela was the South Africa’s first Black President.
2. The white rule or the white supremacy had been ruling more than three centuries in South Africa.
3. Mr Mandela’s joined African National Congress (ANC) party.
4. Mr Mandela’s African National party won 252 of the 400 seats in the 1994 election.
5. The first democratic election of South Africa was established in 1994.
6. The inauguration ceremony took place in the Union Buildings amphitheatre in Pretoria.
7. More than 140 countries around the world participated in the Mandela’s swearing ceremony.
8. More than 100000 (One Lakh) South African men and women and children of all races sang and danced with joy in the ceremony.
9. The swearing ceremony was held on 10th May, 1994.
10. The inauguration would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African Soil.
11. It was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colours and nations in the ceremony.
12. Mandela and his party established the South Africa’s first democratic, non-racial government.
13. The swearing ceremony was held in the autumn season.
14. Nelson Mandela went to the swearing ceremony with his daughter named Zenani.
15. Three main leaders as President Nelson Mandela, first deputy president Thabo Mbeki and Second deputy president Mr de Klerk were present in the swearing ceremony.
16. Mr de Klerk was first sworn, then Thabo Mbeki second and third sworn by Nelson Mandela.
17. Mandela pledged to obey and uphold the Constitution.
18. An extraordinary human disaster or the apartheid system had been lasted too long.
19. By using the words ‘an extraordinary human disaster’ Mandela referred to the practice of apartheid in South Africa.
20. In Mandela’s speech, Mandela mentioned that the Sun would never set on so glorious a human achievement.
21. Mandela and other leaders lifted their eyes in awe as a spectacular array of South African jets, helicopter and troop carriers.
22. Chests bedecked with ribbons and medals, the highest generals of South African defence force were present in the ceremony.
23. The unmindful fact of Mandela was that those African generals arrested Mandela not so many years before, that day the same generals saluted Mandela.
24. A chevron of Impala jets left a smoke trail of the new South African flag’s colours.
25. The new South African flag was consisted in five colours, the black, red, green, blue and gold.
26. The ceremonial day was symbolised for Mandela by the playing of two national anthems.
27. The vision of whites sang ‘Nkosi Sikelel –iAfrika and the vision of blacks sang the national anthem, ‘Die Stem’.
28. ‘Die Stem’ was the old anthem of the Republic of South Africa.
29. On the day of the inauguration, Mandela was overwhelmed with a sense of history.
30. In the first decade of 20th Century, the white-skinned people erected the Apartheid system or a system of racial domination.
31. Mandela had overturned and replaced the Apartheid System in the last decade of 20th Century.
32. Mandela and his party won for the unimaginable sacrifices of thousand of his people and patriots.
33. Mandela’s winning was simply the sum of all the African patriots.
34. Mandela was pained that he was not able to thank the African patriots and they could not see their sacrifices or the success.
35. The policy of apartheid created a deep and lasting wound in South Africa.
36. Oliver Tambos, Walter Sisulu, Chief Luthuli, Yusuf Dadoo, Bram Fischer and Robert Sobukwe were the patriots of South Africa and men of extraordinary courage wisdom and generosity.
37. According to Mandela, the greatest wealth of his country is its people.
38. Mandela compared his people with minerals, gems and the purest diamonds.
39. According to Mandela, courage was not the absence of fear bur the triumph over it.
40. For Mandela, the brave man is not who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
41. According to Mandela, no one is born hating another person’s colour, skin, background and religion.
42. For Mandela, love comes more naturally than hate to the human heart.
43. According to Mandela, people must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.
44. For Mandela, man’s goodness is flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
45. Mandela mentioned that in life we have or every man has twin obligations- one obligation to our family, parents, wife and children; and another is to our people, community and country.
46. In a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible for a man like Mandela’s colour, could not fulfill the twin obligations.
47. In South Africa, a man of colour who attempted to live as a human being was punished and isolated.
48. Mandela did not in the beginning choose to place his people and country above his family.
49. Mandela was not troubled by the laws of man or God in his earlier days or childhood.
50. When Mandela discovered as a young man that his freedom had already been taken from him, that he began to hunger for freedom.
51. When Mandela began to learn that his boyhood freedom was an illusion, then he hungered for freedom as a young man.
52. Mandela was not born with a hunger to be free.
53. Mandela understood later that the childhood free was an illusion.
54. As a student, Mandela wanted freedom only for himself, the transitory freedom.
55. As a young man, Mandela yearned for the basic and honourable freedoms of achieving potential, of earning his keep, of marrying and having a family.
56. When Mandela understood that everyone’s freedom was curtailed who looked he did, that is when he joined African National Congress.
57. After joining African National Congress, the hunger of Mandela’s own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of his people.
58. For the freedom of Mandela’s people, he transformed a frightened young man to a bold one.
59. When Mandela was child then he obeyed his father, abidy by the customs of his tribe and he was not troubled by the laws of man or God.
60. According to Mandela, freedom is indivisible.
61. For Mandela, the chains on anyone of his people were the chains on all of them.
62. According to Mandela, the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
63. Mandela said that a man who takes away another’s man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred.
64. For Mandela, a man who takes away another man’s freedom, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
65. Mandela said that anyone is not truly free if he is taking away some else’s freedom.
66. According to Mandela, the oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
Read the following statements with reference to Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’ and choose the correct option:
1.
Statement 1: Nelson Mandela was the South Africa’s first Black President.
Statement 2: The white rule or the white supremacy had been ruling more than three centuries in South Africa.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
2.
Statement 1: Mr Mandela’s joined African National Congress (ANC) party.
Statement 2: Mr Mandela’s African National party won 200 of the 400 seats in the 1994 election.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
3.
Statement 1: The first democratic election of South Africa was established in 2000.
Statement 2: The inauguration ceremony took place in the Union Buildings amphitheatre in Pretoria.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
4.
Statement 1: Only two countries around the world participated in the Mandela’s swearing ceremony.
Statement 2: Only one hundred South African men and women and children of all races sang and danced with joy in the swearing ceremony.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
5.
Statement 1: The swearing ceremony was held on 10th June, 2005.
Statement 2: The inauguration would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African Soil.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
6.
Statement 1: It was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colours and nations in the ceremony.
Statement 2: Mandela and his party, African National Congress established the South Africa’s first democratic, non-racial government.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
7.
Statement 1: The swearing ceremony was held in the autumn season.
Statement 2: Nelson Mandela went to the swearing ceremony with his wife named Zulakha.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
8.
Statement 1: Three main leaders as President Nelson Mandela, first deputy president Thabo Mbeki and Second deputy president Mr de Klerk were present in the swearing ceremony.
Statement 2: Mr de Klerk was first sworn, then Thabo Mbeki second and third sworn by Nelson Mandela.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
9.
Statement 1: Mandela pledged to obey and uphold the Constitution on the swearing ceremony.
Statement 2: An extraordinary human disaster or the apartheid system had been lasted too long.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
10.
Statement 1: By using the words ‘an extraordinary human disaster’ Mandela referred to the practice of apartheid in South Africa.
Statement 2: In Mandela’s speech, Mandela mentioned that the Sun would ever set on so glorious a human achievement.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
11.
Statement 1: Mandela and other leaders lifted their eyes in awe as a spectacular array of South African jets, helicopter and troop carriers.
Statement 2: Chests bedecked with ribbons and medals, the teachers of South Africa were present in the ceremony.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
12.
Statement 1: The unmindful fact of Mandela was that those African generals arrested Mandela not so many years before, that day the same generals saluted Mandela.
Statement 2: A chevron of Impala jets left a smoke trail of the new South African flag’s colours.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
13.
Statement 1: The new South African flag was consisted in three colours, saffron, white and green.
Statement 2: The ceremonial day was symbolised for Mandela by the playing of two national anthems.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
14.
Statement 1: The vision of black sang ‘Nkosi Sikelel –iAfrika and the vision of white sang the national anthem, ‘Die Stem’.
Statement 2: ‘Die Stem’ was the new anthem of the Republic of South Africa.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
15.
Statement 1: On the day of the inauguration, Mandela was overwhelmed with a sense of history.
Statement 2: In the last decade of 20th Century, the white-skinned people erected the Apartheid system or a system of racial domination.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
16.
Statement 1: Mandela had overturned and replaced the Apartheid System in the last decade of 20th Century.
Statement 2: Mandela and his party won only for themselves.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
17.
Statement 1: Mandela’s winning was simply the sum of all the African patriots.
Statement 2: Mandela was pained that he was not able to thank the African patriots and they could not see their sacrifices or the success.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
18.
Statement 1: The policy of apartheid did not create a deep and lasting wound in South Africa.
Statement 2: Oliver Tambos, Walter Sisulu, Chief Luthuli, Yusuf Dadoo, Bram Fischer and Robert Sobukwe were the patriots of South Africa and men of extraordinary courage wisdom and generosity.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
19.
Statement 1: According to Mandela, the greatest wealth of his country is its minerals.
Statement 2: Mandela compared his people with minerals, gems and the purest diamonds.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
20.
Statement 1: According to Mandela, courage was the absence of fear.
Statement 2: For Mandela, the brave man is who does not feel afraid.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
21.
Statement 1: According to Mandela, no one is born hating another person’s colour, skin, background and religion.
Statement 2: For Mandela, love comes more naturally than hate to the human heart.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
22.
Statement 1: . According to Mandela, people must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.
Statement 2: For Mandela, man’s goodness is a flame that cannot be hidden, it is extinguished.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
23.
Statement 1: Mandela mentioned that in life we have or every man has twin obligations- one obligation to our family, parents, wife and children; and another is to our people, community and country.
Statement 2: In a country like South Africa, it was almost possible for a man like Mandela’s colour, could fulfill the twin obligations during the time of Mandela.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
24.
Statement 1: In South Africa, a man of colour who attempted to live as a human being was punished and isolated.
Statement 2: Mandela did not in the beginning choose to place his people and country above his family.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
25.
Statement 1: Mandela was troubled by the laws of man or God in his earlier days or childhood.
Statement 2: When Mandela discovered as a young man that his freedom had already been taken from him that he began to hunger for freedom.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
26.
Statement 1: When Mandela began to learn that his boyhood freedom was an illusion, then he hungered for freedom as a young man.
Statement 2: Mandela was not born with a hunger to be free.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
27.
Statement 1: Mandela understood at early age that the childhood free was an illusion.
Statement 2: As a student, Mandela wanted freedom only for himself, the transitory freedom.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
28.
Statement 1: As a young man, Mandela yearned for the basic and honourable freedoms of achieving potential, of earning his keep, of marrying and having a family.
Statement 2: When Mandela understood that everyone’s freedom was curtailed who looked he did, that is when he left the African National Congress party.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
29.
Statement 1: After joining African National Congress, the hunger of Mandela’s own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of his people.
Statement 2: For the freedom of Mandela’s people, he transformed a frightened young man to a bold one.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
30.
Statement 1: When Mandela was child then he obeyed his father, abide by the customs of his tribe and he was not troubled by the laws of man or God.
Statement 2: According to Mandela, freedom is divisible.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
31.
Statement 1: For Mandela, the chains on anyone of his people were not the chains on all of them.
Statement 2: According to Mandela, the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
32.
Statement 1: Mandela said that a man who takes away another’s man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred.
Statement 2: For Mandela, a man who takes away another man’s freedom, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
33.
Statement 1: Mandela said that anyone is truly free if he is taking away some else’s freedom.
Statement 2: According to Mandela, the oppressed and the oppressor alike are not robbed of their humanity.
(A) Statement 1 is true and Statement 2 is false.
(B) Statement 1 is false and Statement 2 is true.
(C) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.
(D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Answer: (D) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false.
Which is the Autobiography of Mandela as mentioned below?
(A) Born a Crime
(B) Kaffir Boy
(C) MARY MOODLY
(D) Long Walk to Freedom
Answer: (D) Long Walk to Freedom
42. In his autobiography 'Long Walk to Freedom', Nelson Mandela speaks about a historic occasion, ..........
or
What is the historic occasion mentioned in the line?
(A) Birthday Ceremony
(B) Golden Jubli Ceremony
(C) the inauguration
(D) Death anniversary
Answer: (C) the inauguration
43. 'Nelson Mandela had become South Africa's first Black President after more than ........... centuries of White rule.'
(A) two centuries
(B) three centuries
(C) four centuries
(D) five centuries
Answer: (B) three centuries
44. Mr Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) party won ......... of the 400 seats in the first democratic elections of South Africa's history.
or
How many seats did Nelson Mandela's party ANC win?
(A) 250
(B) 251
(C) 252
(D) 253
Answer: (C) 252
45. The inauguration ceremony took place in the Union Buildings amphitheatre in
(A) Delhi
(B) Pretoria
(C) Mumbai
(D) Kolkata
Answer: (B) Pretoria
46. Approximately how many countries were present in the swearing ceremony of Nelson Mandela or the first democratic, non-racial government of South Africa?
(A) More than twenty (20) countries
(B) More than ten (10) countries
(C) More than fifty (50) countries
(D) More than one hundred forty (140) countries
Answer: (D) More than one hundred forty (140) countries
47. "Never, never again will this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another".
Who said this statement?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Nelson Mandela
(D) Lachit Borphukan
Answer: (C) Nelson Mandela
48. "Never, never again will this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another".
Which beautiful land is mentioned or referred in this line?
(A) Assam
(B) South Africa
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) America
Answer: (B) South Africa
49. 'More than ________ South African men, women and children of all races sand and danced with joy in the inauguration ceremony.'
(A) 1000
(B) 10000
(C) 100000
(D) 10000000
Answer: (C) 100000
50. '________ dawned bright and clear.'
(A) Eighth May
(B) Ninth May
(C) Tenth May
(D) Eleventh May
Answer: (C) Tenth May
51. 'For the past few days I had been pleasantly besieged by dignitaries'.
Who is 'I' mentioned or referred in this line?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Nelson Mandela
(D) Lachit Borphukan
Answer: (C) Nelson Mandela
52. 'World leaders who were coming to pay their respects before________.'
(A) the cricket match
(B) the competition
(C) the marriage ceremony
(D) the inauguration
Answer: (D) the inauguration
53. '_______ would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African soil.'
or:
Which would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African soil?
(A) the birth ceremony of Mandela
(B) the death anniversary of Mandela
(C) the inauguration
(D) the competition
Answer: Which would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African soil?
54. 'For decades this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of
(A) clothes
(B) decoration
(C) different colours and nations
(D) different food items
Answer: (C) different colours and nations
55. 'For decades this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering....'
What is the meaning of the 'rainbow gathering'?
A) clothes
(B) decoration
(C) different colours' of people and nations
or: a different group or individual
(D) different food items
Answer: (C) different colours' of people and nations
or: a different group or individual
56.
It was the site of a rainbow gathering of……for the installation of South
Africa’s first democratic, ____________government.
(A)
racial
(B)
non-racial
(C)
Apartheid
(D)
socialist
Answer:
(B) non-racial
57.
‘On that lovely autumn day I was accompanied by my daughter______.’
(A)
Jarifa
(B)
Jesmina
(C)
Zenani
(D)
Zupitora
Answer:
(C) Zenani
58.
On the podium, Mr de Klerk was first sworn in as
(A)
president
(B)
first deputy president
(C)
second deputy president
(D)
prime minister
Answer:
(C) second deputy president
59.
Thabo Mbeki was sworn in as ____________.
(A)
president
(B)
first deputy president
(C)
second deputy president
(D)
prime minister
Answer:
(B) first deputy president
60.
Nelson Mandela was sworn in as
(A)
president
(B)
first deputy president
(C)
second deputy president
(D)
prime minister
Answer:
(A) president
61.
Who was the first black president of South Africa?
(A)
Chief Luthuli
(B)
Oliver Tambo
(C)
Robert Sobukwe
(D)
Nelson Mandela
Answer:
(D) Nelson Mandela
62.
‘When it was my turn, I pledged to obey and uphold the
(A)
rules of white rule
(B)
Constitution
(C)
the oppression
(D)
apartheid
Answer:
(B) Constitution
63.
‘Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that
lasted too long…’
What
is the meaning of the underlined part?
Or
What
is an extraordinary human disaster meant/referred here?
(A)
cancer
(B)
gas teak
(C)
apartheid
(D)
stomach issue
Answer:
(C) apartheid
64.
‘We thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take
________.’
(A)
the freedom
(B)
possession
(C)
enjoy
(D)
the victory
Answer:
(B) possession
65.
‘After all, a common victory for justice, for peace, for
(A)
enjoy
(B)
the apartheid
(C)
the oppression
(D)
human dignity
Answer:
(D) human dignity
66.
‘We have, at last achieved our_______.
(A)
apartheid system
(B)
business system
(C)
political emancipation
(D)
presidential chair
Answer:
(C) political emancipation
67.
‘We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of
poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other
(A)
apartheid system
(B)
political system
(C)
business system
(D)
discrimination
Answer:
(D) discrimination
68.
‘Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again
experience _______of one by another.’
(A)
the apartheid system
(B)
the oppression
(C)
the business system
(D)
the discrimination
Answer:
(B) the oppression
70.
‘The sun shall never set on so glorious a
(A)
new party
(B)
new business system
(C)
political system
(D)
human achievement
Answer:
(D) human achievement
71.
‘Let freedom reign. God bless _____!
(A)
white rule
(B)
apartheid system
(C)
Africa
(D)
England
Answer:
(C) Africa
72.
‘I was not unmindful of the fact that not so many years before they would not
have saluted but ______me.’
Or:
What
was the unmindful fact that mentioned in the line?
(A) respected
(B)
welcomed
(C)
congratulated
(D)
arrested
Answer:
(D) arrested
73.
‘I was not unmindful of the fact that not so many years before they would not
have saluted but arrested me.’
Who
is they mentioned in the line?
(A)
the African people
(B)
the dignitaries
(C)
the highest generals of the South African defence force and police
(D)
the teachers of South Africa
Answer:
(C) the highest generals of the South African defence force and police
74. ‘Finally a chevron of Impala
jets left a smoke trail of the black, red, green, blue and _______ of the new
South African flag.’
(A) white
(B) silver
(C) pink
(D) gold
Answer: (D) gold
75.
The inauguration day was symbolised for Mandela by the playing their
(A)
marriage songs
(B)
cultural songs
(C)
beautiful songs
(D)
two national anthems
Answer:
(D) two national anthems
76.
On the day of the inauguration, the vision of whites sang ‘Nkosi Sikelel
–iAfrika and black singing ______, the old anthem of the Republic.
Or:
What
was the old anthem of the Republic of South Africa?
(A)
Janagana Mana Adhi Nayak Jaya ha
(B)
Nkosi Sikelel –iAfrika
(C)
Die Stem
(D)
Bande Mataram
Answer:
(C) Die Stem
77.
‘Although that day neither group knew the lyrics of the anthem they once
despised, they would soon know the words by______.’
(A)
language
(B)
meanings
(C)
lyrics
(D)
heart
Answer:
(D) heart
78.
On the day of the inauguration, Mandela was overwhelmed with a sense of
(A)
history
(B)
geography
(C)
economics
(D)
politics
Answer:
(A) history
79.
‘I was simply the sum of all those ________who had gone before me.’
(A)
African actors
(B)
African politicians
(C)
African teachers
(D)
African patriots
Answer:
(D) African patriots
80.
Mandela was pained that he was not able to
(A)
give gift to the politicians
(B)
provide support the businessman
(C)
thank them (African patriots)
(D)
provide money to the leaders
Answer:
(C) thank them (African patriots)
81.
Mandela was pained that they (African patriots) were not able to see what their
sacrifices had _______.
(A)
left
(B)
gotten prize
(C)
fulfilled
(D)
wrought
Answer:
(D) wrought
82.
Mandela was pained that they (African patriots) were not able to see what their
sacrifices had wrought.
What
is the meaning of the underlined word?
Or:
What
is the meaning of ‘wrought’?
(A)
done or achieved (in old fashioned, formal word )
(B)
prize
(C)
gift
(D)
freedom
Answer:
(A) done or achieved (in old fashioned, formal word )
83.
________ created a deep and lasting wound in Mandela’s country and his people.
(A)
the leaders
(B)
the political parties
(C)
the people of South Africa
(D)
the policy of apartheid
Answer:
(D) the policy of apartheid
84. ‘My country is rich in the
minerals and gems that lie beneath its soil, but I have always known that its
greatest wealth is its
Or
According to Mandela, which is the greatest wealth, finer and
truer than the purest diamonds?
(A) land
(B) buildings
(C) wealth
(D) people
Answer: (D) people
85.
Mandela learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but _____over it.
(A)
triumph
(B)
afraid
(C)
nil down
(D)
break down
Answer:
(A) triumph
86. According to Mandela, the brave man is not he who does not
feel afraid, but he who conquers that
(A) enjoy.
(B) charming.
(C) manners.
(D) fear.
Answer: (D) fear.
87. No one is born hating another person because of the colour
of his skin, or his background, or his
(A) fashion.
(B) style.
(C) clothes.
(D) religion.
Answer: (D) religion.
88. According to Mandela, ___comes more naturally to the human
heart than its opposite, hate.
Or:
For Mandela, which comes more naturally to the human heart?
(A) hate
(B) fate
(C) love
(D) happy
Answer: (C) love
89. ‘Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but
(A) always extinguished
(B) always finished
(C) never won
(D) never extinguished
Answer: (D) never extinguished
90. According to Mandela, in life, every man has _____
obligations.
(A) thrice
(B) four
(C) one or more
(D) twin
Answer: (D) twin
91. The twin obligations are- obligations to his family, to his
parents, to his wife and children; and he has an obligation to his people, his
community,____________.
(A) his son
(B) his daughter
(C) his religion
(D) his country
Answer: (D) his country
92. 'But in a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible for a man of my birth and colour to fulfil both of those
(A) dreams.
(B) aims.
(C) hobbies.
(D) obligations.
Answer: (D) obligations.
93. In South Africa, a man of colour who attempted to live as a human being was
(A) punished and isolated.
(B) prized and welcomed.
(C) respected and supported.
(D) honoured and given prizes.
Answer: (A) punished and isolated.
94. In South Africa, a man who tried to fulfil his duty to his people was inevitably ripped from his family and his home and was forced to live a life apart, a twilight existence of __________.
(A) open and friendlly.
(B) white rule.
(C) apartheid.
(D) secrecy and rebellion.
Answer: (D) secrecy and rebellion.
95. Mandela found that he was prevented from fulfilling his obligations as
(A) a political leader.
(B) a police officer.
(C) a officer under the white rule.
(D) a son, a brother, a father and a husband.
Answer: (D) a son, a brother, a father and a husband.
96. 'I was not born with a hunger to be _____.'
(A) freedom.
(B) free.
(C) obstacle.
(D) obligations.
Answer: (B) free.
98. When Mandela was a child, then he thought that he was free to run in the fields near his mother’s hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through his village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of
(A) slow-moving bulls.
(B) elephants.
(C) goats.
(D) horse.
Answer: (A) slow-moving bulls.
99. When Mandela was a child, then as long as he obeyed his father and abided by the customs of his tribe, he was not troubled by the laws of
(A) man or God.
(B) british.
(C) white rule.
(D) political parties.
Answer: (A) man or God.
100. 'It was only when I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was an illusion, when I discovered as a ________.'
(A) child
(B) student
(C) young man
(D) a father
Answer: (C) young man
101. At first, as a student, Mandela wanted freedom only for himself, the transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night,
(A) read what he pleased and go where he chose.
(B) dance what he wanted.
(C) sing what I wanted.
(D) earned money as per his convenience.
Answer:(A) read what he pleased and go where he chose.
102. 'Later, as a young man in Johannesburg, Mandela yearned for the basic and honourable freedoms of achieving his potential, of earning his keep, of
(A) staying and reading whatever he wanted.
(B) marrying and having a family.
(C) transitory freedom of staying outside.
(D) running in the fields near his mother's house.
Answer: (B) marrying and having a family.
103. 'But then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were_______.'
(A) not free.
(B) free.
(C) getting freedom.
(D) getting political emancipation.
Answer: (A) not free.
104. 'I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked ________.'
(A) like an english man.
(B) like a white people.
(C) like I did.
(D) like a political leader.
Answer: (C) like I did.
105. When Mandela saw that his freedom and the freedom of everyone who looked
like him were curtailed, that is when he joined ________.
(A) the white rule.
(B) the highest general.
(C) the African National Congress.
(D) the Indian National Congress.
Answer: (C) the African National Congress.
106. 'When I joined the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom
(A) of my people.'
(B) of my wife.'
(C) of my children.'
(D) of the parents.'
Answer: (A) of my people.'
107. According to Mandela, Freedom is
(A) divisible.
(B) can be separated.
(C) can be established partly.
(D) indivisible.
Answer: (D) indivisible.
108. Mandela said, "The chains on anyone of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on _______."
(A) me.
(B) her.
(C) him
(D) white rule.
Answer: (A) me.
109. 'I knew that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as ________.'
(A) the oppressed.
(B) the political leaders.
(C) the foes.
(D) the against party.
Answer: (A) the oppressed.
110. Mandela said that a man who takes away another man’s freedom is
(A) a great person.
(B) a unique person in the world.
(C) a prisoner of hatred.
(D) a respectable person.
Answer: (C) a prisoner of hatred.
111. 'I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from _______.'
(A) my wife.
(B) my children.
(C) my parents.
(D) me.
Answer: (D) me.
112. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of
(A) their humanity.
(B) their publicity.
(C) their cowardice.
(D) their simplicity.
Answer: (A) their humanity.
113. 'I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked
like I did.'
What is the meaning of the underlined word?
or:
what is the word 'curtail' meant?
(A) increasing.
(B) reduced.
(C) improvement.
(D) upgrade.
Answer: (B) reduced.