Question

Read the Extract given below carefully and answer any three of the questions that follow:
a) why did the author join the African National Congress?
b) What was the only wish of the author?
c) Find out a word from the passage that is similar in meaning with "to reduced".
d) How did the desire for freedom change the authors life?



But then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters

were also 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 a home, that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk. I am no more virtuous or self-sacrificing than the next man, but I found that I could not even enjoy the poor and limited freedom I was allowed when I knew my people were not free.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

a) the author realized that everyone's freedom was curtailed . He wanted freedom for him and his oeople. With this objective , he joined the ANC.

b) the only wish of the author is freedom to everyone who us of his colour (black ) becaused they were not given any freedom by the whites.

c ) curtailed (may be )

d ) the hunger fir freedom changed the author from a frightened young man to a bold one, a law abiding attorney to a criminal , a family loving husband to a man without home and a life loving man to a monk

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