Question

1 for the past few days I had been pleasantly besieged by dignitaries:

Based on your understanding of the sentence choose the word that is most similar in meaning to the

word besieged

A. inundated b. shut off c. Torment

2. From the above sentence identify any of these figures of speech.

A. Metaphor b. simile c. Oxymoron

3. In the first paragraph of page 17, the speaker tells about an inauguration. This is the inauguration of:

A. First Black president b. First democratic government of South Africa c. The South African National

Congress

5. In the line 2 of page 18 the word ‘uphold’ means:

A. Preserve b.protect c. strengthen d. all the above

6. ‘Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long’

What does the extraordinary human disaster refer to?

A. Democracy b. apartheid c. Liberty

7.’ Let freedom reign,God bless Africa’ which of the given words is not a meaning of Reign

A. Dominate b. rule c. indicate

8.” All of us will spend many years, if not generations recovering from the profound hurt.”

i. The speaker of the above lines is:

A. Leslie Norris B. Nelson Mandela c. De Klerk

ii. The attitude of the speaker revealed through these words is:

A. Optimism b. disappointment c. enthusiasm

iii. Profound in the above line means:

A. Intense b. Probably c. Painful​

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