Question

Based on your understanding of the passage given below, complete the statements that follow by ticking the correct options.

Chief Joyi railed against the white man, who he believed had deliberately sundered the Xhosa tribe, dividing brother from brother. The white man had told the Thembus that their true chief was the great white queen across the ocean and that they were her subjects. But the white queen brought nothing but misery and perfidy to the black people, and if she was a chief she was an evil chief. Chief Joyi's war stories and his indictment of the British made me feel angry and cheated, as though I had already been robbed of my own birthright.

Chief Joyi said that the African people lived in relative peace until the coming of the abelungu, the white people, who arrived from across the sea with fire-breathing weapons. Once, he said, the Thembu, the Mpondo, the Xhosa, and the Zulu were all children of one father, and lived as brothers.

The white man shattered the abantu, the fellowship, of the various tribes. The white man was hungry and greedy for land, and the black man shared the land with him as they shared the air and water; land was not for man to possess. But the white man took the land as you might seize another man's horse.

I did not yet know that the real history of our country was not to be found in standard British textbooks, which claimed South Africa began with the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. It was from Chief Joyi that I began to discover that the history of the Bantu-speaking peoples began far to the north, in a country of lakes and green plains and valleys, and that slowly over the millennia we made our way down to the very tip of this great continent.

However, I later discovered that Chief Joyi's account of African history, particularly after 1652, was not always so accurate.







Tick the correct option.

1. Chief Joyi was angry with the white people as they had ……………

a) brought a white queen to rule over their tribe

b) caused a rift between the people of their tribe.

c) given the Thembus a true white chief.

d) taken the Thembus across the ocean to meet their queen.



2. The word abelungu refers to …………………..

a) the African people

b) the great white queen

c) the white people

d) the people of Chief Joyi's tribe



3. The word abantu refers to ……………………….

a) the fire-breathing weapons of the white men

b) the name of a tribe in Africa.

c) the chief of the Xhosa tribe

d) the friendship of the various tribes



4. The white people came to Africa as they wanted ………….

a) land

b) weapons

c) horses

d) people to rule over



5. The British did not study the history of the African tribes as ………..

a) they felt the real history of South Africa began with the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.

b) they thought the account of African history given by the African people was not always so accurate.

c) they did not consider the African people important enough to study their history.

d) they did not know of the lakes and green plains and valleys that the Bantu-speaking peoples came from.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. c

2.c

3.d

4.b

5.a

is the correct ans in my openion