Lesson 2 Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Rolihiahla Mandela Questions Answer .
A Tiger In the Zoo Questions Answer.
A Tiger In the Zoo MCQ
Oral Comprehension Check-1
1/ Where did the ceremonies in take place ? Can you name any public buildings in India that are made of sandstone ?
Answer :- The ceremonies took place in the sand-stone amphitheatre Union Buildings in Pretoria. In India the Red Fort Supreme Court and Parliment House are made of sandstone .
2/ Can you say how 10 may be am " autumn day " in South Africa ?
Answer :- May is an " autumn day " in South Africa because of its weather and on this day Freedom dawned in South Africa after 300 years of white rule .
3/ At the beginning of his speech, Mandela mentioned " an extraordinary human disaster " What does he mean by this ? What is the " glorious human achievement " he speaks of at the end ?
Answer :- By " an extraordinary human disaster " Mandela means the white rule over the black in South Africa . " The glorious human achievement " is the Freedom of a black person . A black person become the president of a country where the blacks are not considered as human beings and treated badly .
4/ Why dose Mandela thank the international leaders for ?
Answer :- Mandela thanks the international leaders for having come to take possession native people of South Africa . It is a common victory for peace and human dignity .
Oral Comprehension Check - 2
1/ What do the military generals do ? How has their attitude changed, and why ?
Answer :- The military generals saluted Mandela and pledged their loyalty . Their attitudes had changed because earlier they were under the rule of white supremacy . Now Mandela was their president .
2/ Why were tow National Abthems Sung ?
Answer :- Because of National reces - the whithes and the blacks . White sang ' Njosi- Sikeleli Africa ' and the black sang 'Die Stem' the old anthem of the republic .
3/ How does Mandela describe 'systems of government in his country .
(1) in the first decade.
(2) in the final decade of the twentieth century ?
Answer :- Mandela describe the system of government in his country .
(i) In the first decade of the 20th century, the whites erected a system of racial discrimination against the blacks .
(ii) In the final decade of the 20th century, the previous system had been overturned and replaced by one which recommended rights and Freedom of all people regardless of the color of their skin .
4/ What dose does courage mean to Mandela ?
Answer :- To Mandela courage is not the absence but the triumph over it .
5/ Which dose he think is natural, to love or to hate ?
Answer :- He thinks love is natural .
Oral Comprehension Check - 3
1/ What "twin obligations " dose Mandela mention ?
Answer :- Nelson Mandela mentioned that everyone has two obligations :-
(i) First one is man's obligations to his family his parents, his wife and his children.
(ii) And second is to his people, his community and his country .
2/ What did began free mean to Mandela as a boy , and as a student ? How dose he contrast these 'transitory Freedom ' with " the basic and honorable Freedoms "?
Answer :- By being free as a boy Mandela meant to be free to wander, swim run and roast Meanies and also to ride bulls . Bit as a student he meant to be free to stay out at night and to study whatever he liked . In other words live his life his own terms . These he calls " Transitory Freedom " because as a young man he realized that these are self-centered and meaningless . It was as a youth that he realized that he actually hungered for "the basic honorable Freedom " - the freedom of achieving his potential, the freedom of earning his lihood . The freedom of marrying according to his wishes and having a family of his own . In short, the freedom to lead a lawful life without any obstructions .
3/ Does Mandela think the oppressor is free ? Why/Why not ?
Answer :- No Mandela dose not think that the oppressor is free . Because an oppressor is the prisoner of hatred . He feels that both the oppressor and the oppressed are robbed of their humanity .
Thinking about the text :
1/ Why did such a large number of international leaders attend the inauguration ? What did it signify the trumph of ?
Answer :- A large number of international leaders attend the inauguration to pay their respects to the new government . It signified the triumph of human dignity .
2/ What dose Mandela mean when he says he is " who had gone before him ?
Answer :- Mandela wants to pay his tribute to all the people who had sacrificed their lives for the sake of freedom . Mandela says so because he only followed the ideals of those African patriots who fought for the rights of his people Mandela got the support of his people to be able to come to power to bring equality for his own people .
3/ Would you agree that the " depths of oppression " create " height of character " ? How dose Mandela illustrate this ? Can you add your own example to this argument ?
Answer :- Yes, the depths of oppression creates "hights of characters " Mandela says that the decades of racial oppression made leaders like Oliver Tambo, Chif Luthuli, Yusful Dadoo, Bram Fischer and Ribert Sobukwe etc .
The same thing was seen in India . Leadersike Gandhi ji, jawaharlal neheru , sardar Patel, Netaji , Lokmanya Tilak etc . Came out against oppression .
4/ How did Mandela's understanding of freedom change with age and experience ?
Answer :- Nelson Mandela realized that he had a lot of responsibilities to his people, his community and his country . As a body, Mandela did not have a hunger for freedom because he thought that he was born free . He believed that as long as he obeyed his father and abided by the customs of his tribe , he was free in every possible manner .
5/ How did Mandela's 'hunger for freedom' change his life ?
Answer :- Mandela's hunger for freedom changed his life as it made him fight against racial injustice and became an advocate for civil rights . A law-abiding attorney because a criminal and a family loving man had to like a monk . It also made him a great statemen .
Thinking about Language
1/ Make a list of such pairs of nouns and verbs in the text .
Answer :-
Noun verb
rebellion :- rebel
constitution :- constitute
government :- govern
formation :- form
discrimination :- discriminate
imagination :- imagine
transformation :- transform
2/ Read the paragraph below. Fill in the blanks with the noun forms of the verbs in bracelets.
Answer :-
Martin Luther King's contributions (contribute) to our history as an
outstanding leader began when he came to the assistance (assist) of
Rosa parks, a seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a
witte passenger. In those days American Blocks were confirmed to
positions of second class citizenship by restrictive laws and customs. To
break these laws would mean subjugation( subjugate) and humiliation
(humiliate) by the police and the legal system. Beatings, imprisonment
(Imprison) and sometimes death awaited those who defied the system.
Martin Luther King's tactics of protest involved non-violent resistance (resist to racial injustice.
II. Here are some examples of 'the' used with proper names. Try to say what these sentences mean . (You may with proper names. Try to what these sentences mean (You may consult a dictionary if you wish. Look at the entry for 'the'.)
1/ Mr Singh regularly invites the Amitabh Bachans and the Shah Rukh Khans to his parties .
Answer :- This implies that Mr Singh regularly invites prominent personalities of caliber such as Mr. Amitabh Bachchan and Mr. Shah Rukh khan to his parties .
2/ Many people think that Madhuri Dixit is the Madhubala of our times.
3/ History is not only the story of the Alexander's, the Napoleons and the Hitlers, but of ordinary people as well .
III. Idiomatic Expressions
Answer :-
I. Looking at Contrast
Answers :-
4/ If people can learn to hate they can taught to love .
5/ I was not born with a hunger to be free . I was born free .
II. 1/ For decades the Union Buildings had been the seat of withe supremacy, and now ...
2/ Only moments before, the highest generals of the South African defence force and police. . saluted me and pledged their loyalty. not so many years before they would not have saluted
Answer :- but arrested me .
3/ Although that day neither group knew the lyrics of the anthem ... they would soon
Answer :- know the words by heart .
4/ The Air Show was not only a display of pinpoint precision and military force, but
Answer :- but I have always known that it's greatest wealth is it people, finer and truer than the purest .
5/ The Air Show was not a display of pinpoint precision and military force, but
Answer :- a demonstration of the military's loyalty to democracy, to a new government that had been freely and fairly elected .
6/ It was this desire for freedom of my people... that transformed into a bold one, drove to become a criminal, that turned into man without a home .
Answer :- it was this desire for the freedom of my people .... that transformed a frightened Yong man into a bold one, that drove a low-abiding attorney to become a criminal, that turned family-loving husband into a man without a home .
A Tiger In The Zoo
Thinking about the poem
Ans :-
(ii) Find the words that describe the two places, and Arrange them in two columns.
Now try to share ideas about how the poet uses worlds and images to contrast the two situations.
Ans :-
2/ Notice the use of a word repeated in lines such as these : .
(i) On pads of velvet quiet ,
In his quiet rage .
(ii) And stares with his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars .
What do you think is the effect of this repetition ?
Ans :-Repetition is a poetic device used by the poet to amplify the intensity of the tiger's rage and his helpless condition. Velvet quiet ' refers to the quiet velvet pads of the tiger, which cannot run. They can only walk that too in a limited space in the cage. The use of quiet rage' indicates the anger and rage that is growing inside the tiger as it wants to go back into the forest and attack a deer , but the rage is quiet word ' quiet ' has brought immense beauty to the lines. Also the use of word 'brilliant ' for the tiger's eyes and the stars has brought out the greatess of the lines. The tiger stars at the brilliant stars with his brilliant eyes dreaming about how beautiful hid life could be in the forest. The repetition thus, gives a beautiful effect to the poem.
Multiple choice questions and Answers
1/ _______ is called an autumn day in South-Africa?
(i) 10 th July . (ii) 10 th May .
(iii) 10 th October . (ìv) 10th May .
Ans :- (ii) 10 th May .
2/ How many national anthem were Sung in South- Africa ?
(i) Two (ii) Three (iii) Four
(iv) None of these .
Ans :- (i) Two .
Ans :- (iii) Gems and minerals.
4/ Nelson Mandela was ---
(i) First black President of South Africa.
(ii) Second black President of South Africa.
(iii) Third black President of South Africa.
(iv) None of above.
5/ South-Africa because independent in the year-
(i) 1947 (ii) 1964 (iii) 1994 (iv) 1995
Ans :- (iii) 1994 .
6/ ANC stands for -
(i) Afghanistan National Congress
(ii) Azerbaijan National Congress
(iii) American National Congress
((iv) African National Con
Ans :- (iv) African National Congress.
7/ ANC won ______ seats out of ________
(i) 140,220 (ii) 252,400 (iii) 220,420 (iv) 100,200
8/ Zenani was _____ of Nelson Mandela.
(i) Wife (ii) Caretaker (iii) Daughter (iv) None of these.
Ans :- (iii) Daughter.
9/ A Non-racial government means-
(i) Which based on skin-colour .
(ii) Which is not based on skin colour.
(iii) Which is based on corruption.
(iv) Which is not based on corruption.
Ans :- (ii) Which is not based on skin colour .
Additional Questions and Answes
1/ What did Mandela say about the wealth of his country ?
Ans :- Mandela says that the greatest wealth of his country is its people. According to him, they truer and finer than the purest Dimonds . He also goes on to compare the wealth of gems and minerals, but then he feels the people of his nation are the greatest wealth compared to any other form of wealth .
2/ Freedom is invisible, how dose Mandela explain this observation of his .
Ans :- Mandela expressed that he could not enjoy the poor and limited freedom that he was allowed when be know that his people were not free. According to him, the chain on any one of his people I.e the coloured people were chains on all of them and chains on all of his people were chains on him. He could not enjoy freedom when his own brother and sisters were kept suppressed by the whites . This is how Mandela explained his observation "freedom is invisible.
3/ When did Mandela begin to hunger for freedom ?
Ans :- Mandela began to hunger gor independence in 1893 . As he grew older, freedom to raise a family and freedom to earn livelihood started dominating his thoughts. Gradually, he realised that he was selfish his boyhood . He slowly understood that it was not just his freedom that was being curtailed, but the freedom of all blacks .
4/ Write the name of two patriots before Mandela ?
Ans :- The names of two patriots before Mandela are Oliver Tambo and Bram Fischer.
5/ What dose Mandela say about the inauguration gathering ?
Ans :- The inauguration took place on the tenth of May, 1994 in the lovely sandstone amphitheatre fromed by the union Buildings in Pretoria. Mandela said that inauguration gathering was the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African Soil.
6/ The oppressed and the oppressor like are robbed of their humanity ? What makes Mandela say this ?
Ans :- Mandela always thought that both oppressors and oppressed are depressed of their humanity. The oppressor is a prisoner of anger, while the oppressed have no confidence in humanity. Therefore, both of them need to be liberated . He always wanted people to live with dignity and respect .
7/ What do you mean by apartheid ? What is the full name of Nelson Mendela ?
Ans :- Apartheid is a political system that separates people according to their race .
The full name of Nelson Mendela is Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.
8/ How did Mandela's understanding of freedom change with age and experience ?
Ans :- As a boy Mandela enjoyed freedom to do activities of boyhood days . But as he grew up he felt that freedom was invisible .
9/ When did Nelson Mandela become the president of South Africa ?
Ans :- Nelson Mandela become the president of South Africa on 10th May, 1994.
10/ What was the colour of the new South Africa flag ?
Ans :- The colours of the new South African flag were black red, green, blue Ans gold .
11/ How and when did freedom mean change to Nelson Mandela ?
Ans :- According to Nelson Mandela when he was born he was free, free in every way that he could know, Free to run in fields near his mother's hut. Free to swim in the clear steam that ran through his village. Free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the board backs of slow moving bulls .
Mandela began to learn that his boyhood freedom was an illusion. He understood that freedom was an illusion. He understood that freedom had already been take from him . He began hunger for freedom. He saw that not only his freedom was curtailed but the freedom of everyone looked alike . Freedom to his people to live their lives with dignity and self respect that animated Mandela's life .
A. Choose the correct options for the following :-
1/ According to Mandela, the greatest wealth of South Africa is _____
(i) Diamonds (ii) Trees (iii) Golds (iv) it's people .
Ans :- (iv) It's people.
2/ All of us will spend many years, if not generations, recovering from that profound hurt .
(i) light and vain (ii) Abnormal
(iii) Normal (iv) deep and strong .
Ans :- (iv) deep and strong .
3/ According to Mandela, freedom is
(i) Divisible (ii) Reversible (iii) indivisible (iv) irreversible .
Ans :- (iii) Indivisible .
4/ I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was an .....
(i) Illusion (ii) Intuition (iii) Inspiration
(iv) All of the above
Ans :- (i) Illusion.
5/ Depths of oppression create :
(i) Heights of character
(ii) Heights of success
(iii) Heights of ignorance
(iv) None of the above.
Ans :- (i) Heights of character.
6/ dawned bright and clear.
(i) Tenth July. (ii) Tenth may
(iii) Fourth July (iv) Fourth May
Ans :- (ii) Tenth may .
7/ Who was sworn in the second Deputy president ?
(i) Nelson Mandela (ii) Thabo Mbeki
(iii) Oliver Tambo (iv) Mr de Kleark
Ans :- (iv) Mr de klerk .
8/ Which is the old national anthem of the republic of South Africa ?
(i) Die Stem (ii) Nkosi sikele - I Africa
(iii) God save the king (iv) Is Marseilase
Ans :- (i) Die Stem.
9/ According to Mandela, What come more naturally to heart ?
(i) Love (ii) Hate (iii) Freedom (iv) Partriotiom .
Ans :- (i) Love .
10/ ...... Not just my freedom that was curtailed .
(i) increased (ii) reduce (iii) success (iv) ignorance .
Ans :- (ii) reduced .
11/ The ceremonies took place ______
(i) at Mandela's house (ii) at Johannesburg
(iii) at the sandstone amphitheatre formed by the union building.
(iv) in a village.
(iv) in a village .
Ans :- (iii) at the sandstone amphitheatre freedom by the union building .
12/ How many national anthems were Sung in South Africa ?
(i) Tow (ii) Three (iii) Four (iv) None of these .
Ans :- Tow .
13/ South Africa is rich in ____
(i) Coffee (ii) Tourism (iii) Gems and minerals
(iv) All of above.
Ans :- (iii) Gems and minerals.
14/ Nelson Mandela was _____
(i) afirst black President of South Africa.
(ii) Second black President of South Africa.
(iii) Third black President of South Africa.
(iv) None of above.
Ans :- (i) First black President of South Africa.
15/ South-Africa became independent in the year____
(i) 1947 (ii) 1964 (iii) 1994 (iv) 1995
Ans :- (iii) 1994 .
16/ ANC stands for ____
(i) Afghanistan National Congress.
(ii) Azerbaijan National Congress.
(iii) American National Congress.
(iv) African National Congress.
Ans :- (iv) African National Congress.
17/ ANC won ____ seats out of ____
(i) 140,220 (ii) 252,400 (iii) 220,420 (iv) 100,200
Ans :- (ii) 250,400.
18/ How does Nelson Mandela define the meaning of Congress ?
(i) Triumph over Selfish.
(ii) Triumph over fear.
(iii) Triumph over hate.
(iv) Triumph over love .
Ans :- (ii) Triumph over fear .
19/ Which is not about the Apartheid .
(i) Economic based. (ii) Means equality .
(iii) Made laws . (iv) None of the above .
Ans :- (ii) Means equality.
20/ What dose "depths of oppression " create ?
(i) Heights of character. (ii) lack of freedom .
(iii) Love (iv) oppressed .
Ans :- (i) Heights of character .
