8. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
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. 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 home.
(a) 'Brothers and sisters' refers to the
(b) I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the ...
.........
(c) The hunger for freedom transformed a frightened youngman into
(ii) a bold one
(i) a naive
(iii) a terrified man (iv) a weak man
(d) The word from the passage which means the same as 'lawyer' is ........
........,,
Answers
Answer:
First read the extract carefully.
then you can be able to answer all the questions
Explanation:
HERE IS YOUR ANSER
(a) Mandela joined the African national congress because he wanted to fight for the freedom of his people.
(b) Mandela knew that freedom is indivisible because the chains on anyone of his people were chains on all of them.
(c) The word is virtuous.
(d) The word is compelled/forced
Answer:
Answers from the given passage -
(a) 'Brothers and sisters' refers to the - common people of South Africa.
(b) I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the - freedom of every black people was snatched away from them.
(c) The hunger for freedom transformed a frightened young man into - a bold one.
(d) The word from the passage which means the same as 'lawyer' is - attorney.
Explanation:
The above passage is taken from Nelson Mandela's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom".
Nelson Mandela has become South Africa's first Black President after more than three centuries of White rule. Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) party won 252 of the 400 seats in the first democratic elections of South Africa's history.
The inauguration ceremony took place in the Union Buildings amphitheater in Pretoria, attended by politicians and dignitaries from more than 140 countries around the world. "Never, never again will this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another"- said Mandela in his address.
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