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Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Extra Questions and Answers Short Answer Type

Question 1.
When did Nelson Mandela become the President?
Answer:
Nelson Mandela became the President of South Africa on 10 May 1994.

Question 2.
Where did the inauguration ceremony take place?
Answer:
The inauguration ceremony took place at Union Buildings amphitheatre in Pretoria.

Question 3.
What was the pledge taken by Nelson Mandela?
Answer:
To liberate all the black people from the continuing bondages of poverty, deprivation, suffering and racial discrimination.

Question 4.
Which colours were used in the new flag of South Africa?
Answer:
Black, red, green, blue and gold.

Question 5.
What were the two anthems sung on ‘that day’?
Answer:
‘Nikosi Sikelel Africa’ and ‘Die stem’.

Question 6.
Which party did Nelson Mandela join?
Answer:
Nelson Mandela joined African National Congress.

Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Extra Questions and Answers Long Answer Type

Question 1.
Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress as a young man. It transformed his life. What made him join it? What does it show about his character?
Answer:
Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress because even the basic freedom was not available to blacks. They could not live as human beings. They were punished and isolated from the society. He brought a transformation by achieving freedom for his people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect.

Nelson Mandela was a simple law abiding person but his people were not happy in a slave society. They were not given the basic rights of a citizen. They had to endure much pain and endure racial discrimination. They were not free on their own land. All these sufferings ignited the fire in Mandela. He left his home and began living like a monk. He taught boldly and fearlessly. Adherence to patriotism, self-respect and dignity transformed him completely. It shows that Mandela had a strong character. He was determined in his action. He had sympathy and compassion for his people.

Question 2.
Man is a social animal. He has some obligations to society. What twin obligations does Mandela mention? How can one fulfil these obligations?
Answer:
Man is a social animal and has some social obligations to society. Nelson Mandela understood the importance of being social. Mandela talks about twin obligations obligation to his family, to his parents, to his wife and children. This is the first and the most important obligation that every man has to fulfil in his life. Another obligation is to his people, to his community and to his nation.

He emphasises that in a civil society, each one of us should fulfil these obligations. It is the responsibility of the government to provide an atmosphere where a person can fulfil these obligations. But in a country like South Africa, it was not possible to fulfil these obligations because of discrimination. It was an era of oppression and torture for the black Africans in their own country. They were not allowed even the basic freedom of living a dignified life.

Question 3.
Nelson Mandela points out some human qualities in his speech. Which of these qualities impresses you the most? Do you think these qualities have become rare nowadays?
Answer:
In the truest sense, nowadays human qualities that Nelson Mandela points out in his speech are hardly found. Today, people almost lack qualities like love, compassion and truthfulness. According to Nelson Mandela, love, compassion and truthfulness are essential human qualities. He fought against the discrimination meted out to his people in South Africa and realised that those who are oppressors lack the qualities of a human being. Those who deny basic freedoms to all are not real human beings. The real human being is one who has love, kindness and respect for all.

Question 4.
How did Nelson Mandela pay a tribute to the black people who sacrificed their lives for attaining freedom for their country? How can we do it for our country?
Answer:
Nelson Mandela had to fight against the inhumane government in South Africa. He fought against the policy of aparthied. He was not the first leader to initiate this movement. He joined them and succeeded. But he did not take entire credit for his success. He recognised their contribution and paid them a befitting tribute. He called himself simply the sum of all those Africans patriots who had laid the path towards the achievement of success. He continued the movement started by them. On the day of installation of the government, he missed all of them and expressed his gratitude towards them.

Question 5.
Do you think there is colour or caste prejudice in our own country? How can we uproot it? What is your stand on it? Should we discriminate on the basis of caste or colour?
Answer:
We can also do such work for our country. Though we have got independence, all our people have not yet achieved the freedom of education. We should do whatever we can, to make education available to the poor and backward people. Also in many places, girls are not given all the basic rights. Our government should take initiatives to give all the rights to every citizen.

It is true that there is no colour or caste prejudice in our own country. Nevertheless, discrimination on the basis of caste and religion has not been rooted out from the minds of the people. So it is a burning question to uproot this discrimination.

Education, basically value education, is the most important tool to do away with such discrimination. Once people are properly educated, they can be conscious and aware of their fundamental rights as guaranteed by the Constitution of India, and can face boldly such racial discrimination.

As a true citizen of India, we have to be conscious and aware of our fundamental rights. Accordingly, we will fight against any kind of discrimination like colour, religion or caste prejudices. No, we should not discriminate our people on the basis of caste or colour. We should give respect to all irrespective of caste, colour or religion and allow every one to live with dignity and self-respect.

Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Extra Questions and Answers Reference-to-Context

Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Question 1.
Tenth May dawned bright and clear. For the past few days I had been pleasantly besieged by dignitaries and world leaders who were coming to pay their respects before the inauguration. The inauguration would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African soil.

(a) The tenth May was significant on the South African soil because it was the day by international leaders.
Answer:
Inauguration

(b) The world leaders were coming to South Africa to pay their ……………. before the inauguration.
Answer:
Respects

(d) Find the synonym of ‘launching a military operation’ from the extract.
Answer:
Besieged.

Question 2.
The ceremonies took place in the lovely sandstone amphitheater formed by the Union Buildings in Pretoria. For decades this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colours and nations for the installation of South Africa’s first democratic, non-racial government.

(a) The ceremony took place in the lovely sandstone formed by the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
Answer:
Amphitheater

(b) It was the site of a gathering of different colours and different nations.
Answer:
Rainbow

(d) Find the synonym of ‘convention’ from the extract.
Answer:
Gathering.

Question 3.
On that lovely autumn day I was accompanied by my daughter Zenani. On the podium, Mr de Klerk was first sworn in as second deputy president. ThenThabo Mbeki was sworn in as first deputy president. When it was my turn, I pledged to obey and uphold the Constitution and to devote myself to the well- being of the Republic and its people.

(a) Zenani was the daughter of
Answer:
Nelson Mandela

(b) …….. was sworn in as the first Deputy President.
Answer:
Thabo Mbeki

(d) Give a synonym of ‘oath’ from the extract.
Answer:
pledge.

Question 4.
To the assembled guests and the watching world, I said:
Today, all of us do, by our presence here… confer glory and hope to newborn liberty. Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud. We, who were outlaws not so long ago, have today been given the rare privilege to be host to the nations of the world on our own soil. We thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common victory for justice, for peace, for human dignity.

(a) The extraordinary human disaster that Mandela has mentioned in the extract is the policy of
Answer:
Apartheid

(b) The speaker wished to refer to the victory as a common victory for ………… for peace, for human dignity.
Answer:
justice

(c) The speaker called the victory as a common victory because the entire world was against the policy of Apartheid. (iVue/False)
Answer:
True

(d) Give an antonym of ‘common’ from the extract.
Answer:
‘Distinguished’.

Question 5.
We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation. We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Let freedom reign. God bless Africa!

(a) The African people have at least achieved their political
Answer:
Emancipation

(b) Mandela wished that let reign on this beautiful land.
Answer:
Freedom

(d) Find the synonym of the word ‘subjugation’ from the extract.
Answer:
‘Emancipation’.

Question 6.
A few moments later we all lifted our eyes in awe as a spectacular array of South African jets, helicopters and troop carriers roared in perfect formation over the Union Buildings. It was not only a display of pinpoint precision and military force, but a demonstration of the military’s loyalty to democracy, to a new government that had been freely and fairly elected.

(a) There was a huge of South African jets, helicopters and troop carriers over the Union Buildings.
Answer:
Demonstration

(b) It was a demonstration of the military’s to democracy.
Answer:
loyalty

(d) Give synonym of ‘glorious’ from the extract.
Answer:
Spectacular.

Question 7.
Only moments before, the highest generals of the South African defence force and police, their chests bedecked with ribbons and medals from days gone by, saluted me and pledged their loyalty. I was not unmindful of the fact that not so many years before they would not have saluted but arrested me. Finally a chevron of Impala jets left a smoke trail of the black, red, green, blue and gold of the new South African flag.

(a) The salute of the Generals signified loyalty to democracy and of the new government.
Answer:
Recognition

(b) Finally, a ……….. of Impala jets left a smoke trail of the black, red, green, blue and gold of the new South African flag.
Answer:
Trail

(c) The Generals saluted Nelson Mandela and displayed their loyalty to the newly installed democratic government. (True/False)
Answer:
True

(d) Find the meaning of the words ‘a line or pattern in the shape of a V’.
Answer:
‘Chevron’.

Question 8.
The day was symbolised for me by the playing of our two national anthems, and the vision of whites singing ‘Nkosi Sikelel -iAfrika’ and blacks singing ‘Die Stem’, the old anthem of the Republic. Although that day neither group knew the lyrics of the anthem they once despised, they would soon know the words by heart.

(a) The day was symbolized for me by the playing of the anthems.
Answer:
National

(b) The groups did not know the of the old anthem.
Answer:
lyrics

(d) Give a synonym of ‘perception’ from the extract.
Answer:
Vision

Question 9.
On the day of the inauguration, I was overwhelmed with a sense of history. In the first decade of the twentieth century, a few years after the bitter Anglo-Boer war and before my own birth, the white-skinned people of South Africa patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against the dark-skinned people of their own land.

(a) The new government was based on a
Answer:
Democratic set-up

(b) The previous government of the Whites had racial over the Blacks of South Africa.
Answer:
Domination

(d) Find the meaning of the words “a period of 10 years” from the extract.
Answer:
‘Decade’.

Question 10.
The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane, societies the world has ever known. Now, in the last decade of the twentieth century, and my own eighth decade as a man, that system had been overturned forever and replaced by one that recognised the rights and freedoms of all people, regardless of the colour of their skin.

(a) The Whites had created such structure that formed the ……… of most harsh and inhumane societies.
Answer:
Basis

(b) In the last decade of the 20th century, the policy of was uprooted.
Answer:
Apartheid

(c) In the last decade of the 20th century, a new non-racial government was installed as a recognition of the rights and freedom of all people whether Blacks or the Whites. (True/False)
Answer:
True

(d) Find the synonym of‘cruel’from the extract.
Answer:
‘Inhumane’.

Question 11.
That day had come about through the unimaginable sacrifices of thousands of my people, people whose suffering and courage can never be counted or repaid. I felt that day, as I have on so many other days, that I was simply the sum of all those African patriots who had gone before me. That long and noble line ended and now began again with me. I was pained that I was not able to thank them and that they were not able to see what their sacrifices had wrought.

(a) The day of installation of the democratic government in South Africa can never be counted
Answer:
Repaid

(b) The long and noble line referred to the African who sacrificed their lives for freedom before him.
Answer:
Patriots

(c) Mandela felt that he was simply the sum of all those African patriots who had gone before him.(True/False)
Answer:
True

(d) Find the meaning of the words “caused to happen” from the extract.
Answer:
‘Wrought’.

Question 12.
The policy of apartheid created a deep and lasting wound in my country and my people. Ail of us will spend many years, if not generations, recovering from that profound hurt. But the decades of oppression and brutality had another, unintended, effect, and that was that it produced the Oliver Tambos, the Walter Sisulus, the Chief Luthulis, the Yusuf Dadoos, the Bram Fischers, the Robert Sobukwes of our time — men of such extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity that their like may never be known again. Perhaps it requires such depths of oppression to create such heights of character. 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 people, finer and truer than the purest diamonds.

(a) The policy of apartheid created a deep and lasting in the country and its people.
Answer:
Wound

(b) Mandela’s country is rich in minerals and that lie beneath its soil.
Answer:
gems

(c) According to Mandela, the greatest wealth of a country is its people, finer and truer than the purest diamonds. (True/False)
Answer:
True

(d) Find the antonym of “gentleness” from the extract.
Answer:
‘Brutality’.

Question 13.
It is from these comrades in the struggle that I learned the meaning of courage. Time and again, I have seen men and women risk and give their lives for an idea. I have seen men stand up to attacks and torture without breaking, showing a strength and resilience that defies the imagination. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

(a) Mandela learnt the meaning of courage from his ……………. like Oliver Tambos.
Answer:
comrades

(b) The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who …………… that fear.
Answer:
Conquers

(c) As a young man Mandela has never seen men and women risk and give their lives for an idea. (True/False)
Answer:
False

(d) Find the antonym of‘rigid’from the extract.
Answer:
Resilience.

Question 14.
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Even in the grimmest times in prison, when my comrades and I were pushed to our limits, I would see a glimmer of humanity in one of the guards, perhaps just for a second, but it was enough to reassure me and keep me going. Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

(a) Love comes more naturally to the …….. than its opposite.
Answer:
Human heart

(b) Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never
Answer:
Extinguished

(d) Find the synonym of ‘twinkle’ from the extract.
Answer:
‘Glimmer’.

Question 15.
In life, every man has twin obligations — obligations to his family, to his parents, to his wife and children; and he has an obligation to his people, his community, his country. In a civil and humane society, each man is able to fulfil those obligations according to his own inclinations and abilities. But in a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible for a man of my birth and colour to fulfil both of those obligations. In South Africa, a man of colour who attempted to live as a human being was punished and isolated. 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 secrecy and rebellion. I did not in the beginning choose to place my people above my family, but in attempting to serve my people, I found that I was prevented from fulfilling my obligations as a son, a brother, a father and a husband.

(a) In life, every man has twin obligations—obligation to his family first, and secondly, obligation to his
Answer:
People

(b) In South Africa, a man of colour who attempted to live as a was punished and isolated.
Answer:
Human being

(c) In South Africa, it was impossible to fulfil the twin obligations because of an undemocratic
government. (True/False)
Answer:
True

(d) Give the synonym of ‘destined’ from the extract.
Answer:
‘Inevitable’.

Question 16.
It was only when I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was an illusion, when I discovered as a young man that my freedom had already been taken from me, that I began to hunger for it. At first, as a student, I wanted freedom only for myself, the transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what I pleased and go where I chose. Later, as a young man in Johannesburg, I yearned for the basic and honourable freedoms of achieving my potential, of earning my keep, of marrying and having a family — the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful life.

(a) What did the speaker realize about his childhood freedom?
Answer:
The speaker realized that his childhood freedom was only an illusion.

(b) When did the speaker begin his hunger for freedom? ,
Answer:
When the speaker,as a young man, discovered that his freedom had already been taken from him, he began to hunger for freedom.

(c) What did the speaker want as a student?
Answer:
As a student, he wanted freedom only for himself, the transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what he pleased and go where he chose.

(d) What did the speaker want as a young man?
Answer:
As a young man in Johannesburg, he yearned for the basic and honourable freedoms of achieving his potential, of earning his keep, of marrying and having a family. He wanted the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful life.

Question 17.
But then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free. I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked like I did. That is when I joined the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people.

(a) With time what did the speaker see in his country?
Answer:
With time the speaker saw that no one was free in his country. Freedom of everybody was curtailed.

(b) When did his hunger become the greater hunger for freedom?
Answer:
When he joined the African National Congress, his hunger for his own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom.

(c) Who is the speaker? What was his desire?
Answer:
Nelson Mandela is the speaker. He wanted freedom for his people who were leading an inhuman life under the undemocratic government in South Africa.

(d) What did he do to achieve his mission?
Answer:
Mandela joined the struggle for freedom by joining African National Congress.

Question 18.
It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their lives with dignity and self- respect that animated my life, that transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal, that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a home, that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk. I am no more virtuous or self-sacrificing than the next man, but I found that I could not even enjoy the poor and limited freedoms I was allowed when I knew my people were not free. Freedom is indivisible; 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 me.

(a) How was the life of the speaker animated?
Answer:
His desire for the freedom of his people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect animated his life.

(b) How did his desire transform him?
Answer:
His desire for freedom transformed him from a frightened young man to bold one, from a law abiding attorney to a criminal.

(c) How did it affect his family?
Answer:
His struggle for freedom turned a family loving husband into a man without a home.

(d) Why could the speaker not enjoy the limited freedom?
Answer:
The speaker could not enjoy the limited freedom for himself because his own people were chained. He wanted equality and freedom for all.

Question 19.
I knew that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is looked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.

(a) Who are the oppressor and oppressed here?
Answer:
The white government of South Africa is the oppressor and the coloured people of the country are the oppressed.

(b) According to the speaker what should an oppressor be liberated from?
Answer:
According to the speaker, an oppressor should be liberated from hatred, prejudice and narrow-mindedness.

(c) According to the speaker when is a person truly free?
Answer:
According to the speaker a person is truly free if he does not take away someone else’s freedom.

(d) What is the common loss of both the oppressor and the oppressed?
Answer:
According to the speaker, the oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humility away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. 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 away from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

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