Multiple Choice Questions
Q1: What realizations did Mandela have of his boyhood freedom?
(a) Freedom was meant for kids
(b) He was born free
(c) It is just an illusion
(d) He had no realizations
Q2: Nelson Mandela’s wish for the country was _________.
(a) to unite all his people together
(b) to push away the enemies
(c) to remain free forever without an oppressor ruling them
(d) none of these
Q3: According to Mandela, what is the greatest wealth of a nation?
(a) minerals
(b) gems
(c) diamonds
(d) people
Q4: What unintended effect did the decades of oppression and brutality have?
(a) created men of extraordinary courage, wisdom, and generosity
(b) Poverty and suffering
(c) Boycotts from foreign nations
(d) both 2 and 3
Q5: What change brought international leaders to South Africa?
(a) End of Apartheid
(b) humanity
(c) peace
(d) trade negotiations
Short Answer Type Questions
Q6: What were Nelson Mandela’s views on the policy of Apartheid?
Q7: What were the difficulties Nelson Mandela encountered while fighting for freedom?
Q8: How did ‘hunger for freedom’ change Mandela’s life?
Q9: What are the ‘twin obligations’ referred to by Nelson Mandela?
Q10: What was unique in the inauguration ceremony?
Long Answer Type Questions
Q11: Describe the views of Mandela for the black people who fought and sacrificed their lives for the country’s political independence.
Q12: What were the difficulties faced by Nelson Mandela in achieving freedom for his people?
Q13: Summarise the chapter ‘Nelson Mandela -Long Walk to Freedom.
Extract Based Questions
Q14: 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.
(a) What are the obligations that every man has in his life?
(b) Why was it impossible for a coloured man to discharge his obligations in South Africa?
(c) What does it mean by the phrase ‘a man of my birth’?
(d) What is the adjective form of ‘punished’?
Q15: 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. 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) What made the author overwhelmed?
(b) Which system was created by white-skinned people of South Africa?
(c) What did the new system recognize?
(d) Which word in the passage means the same as ‘submerged’?
The solutions of the worksheet “Worksheet Solutions: Nelson Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom“