Class 10 Nelson Mandela Extract Based Questions
In this post, I’m sharing with you some Class 10 Nelson Mandela Extract Based Questions about Nelson Mandela that often come up in the CBSE Class 10th Board Exams. If you want to do well in these exams, it’s important to study and understand these questions. This will help you in the upcoming CBSE Class 10th Board Exams in 2023-24.
Nelson Mandela Extract Based Questions Set – 1-4
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Nelson Mandela Extract Based Questions
5. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Tenth May dawned bright and clear. For the past few days, I had been pleasantly besieged by dignitaries and world leaders who were coming to pay their respects before the inauguration. The inauguration would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African soil The ceremonies took place in the lovely sandstone amphitheater formed by the Union Buildings in Pretoria. For decades this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of rainbow gathering of different colours and nations for the installation of South Africa’s first democratic non-racial government.
[i] ‘I’ here refers to:
(a) Mbeki
(b) Kierk
(c) Zenani
(d) Nelson Mandela
[ii] He was surrounded by:
(a) international leaders and dignitaries
(b) family members
(c) national heroes
(d) British soldiers
[iii] The inauguration was to celebrate the installation of:
(a) South Africa’s first capitalist govt.
(b) South Africa’s first democratic govt.
(c) South Africa’s first communist govt
(d) none of the above
[iv] The inauguration ceremonies took place in the:
(a) lovely arena
(b) open wooden theatre
(c) lovely sandstone amphitheater
(d) President House
[v] The word ‘amphitheater’ here means: :
(a) a building with a conical tent
(b) a building with iron- fencing
(c) a building with triangular shape
(d) a building without a roof
Nelson Mandela Extract Based Questions with Answer
6. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
I knew that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrowmindedness. I am not truly free if l am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
[i] ‘I’ here refers to:
(a) Mbeki
(b) Zenani
(c) Nelson Mandela
(d) Kierk
[ii] To author, the oppressor must be liberated just as surely:
(a) as the stress
(b) as the oppressed
(c) as the others
(d) as the author
[iii] A man who takes away another man’s freedom is:
(a) a prisoner of superiority
(b) a prisoner of lust
(c) a prisoner of self
(d) a prisoner of hatred
[iv] I am not truly free if I am:
(a) taking away other ‘s freedom
(b) taking away other’s money
(c) taking away other’s cow
(d) taking away other’s books
[v] The word ‘prejudice’ means:
(a) revenge
(b) a strong dislike without any good reason
(c) a strong reeling or love
(d) irritation
Nelson Mandela Extract Based Questions and Answers
7. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
It was only then I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was an illusion. When I discovered as a young man that my freedom had already been taken from me, that I began to hunger for it. At first, as a student I wanted freedom only for myself, the transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what I pleased and go where I chose. Later, as a young man in Johannesburg, I yearned for the basic and honourable freedom of achieving my potentially of earning my keep, of marrying and having a family – the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful life.
[i] ‘I’ here refers to:
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Mbeki
(c) Kierk
(d) Zenani
[ii] The narrator learnt that his boyhood freedom was:
(a) an excited period
(b) a storm
(c) a promise
(d) an illusion
[iii] As a student the author wanted freedom only:
(a) for the family
(b) for himself
(c) for the parents
(d) for friends
[iv] The word ‘yearned for’ means:
(a) longed for
(b) deserted
(c) struggled
(d) pacified
[v] In Johannesburg, Mandela longed for the basic freedom of achieving his potential arid:
(a) of celebrating the moment
(b) of gathering more money
(c) of marrying and having a family
(d) of having a status
Class 10 Nelson Mandela Extract Based Questions
8. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
On the day of the inauguration I was overwhelmed with a sense of history. In the first decade of the 20th century of few years after the bitter Anglo-Boer war and before my own birth, the white-skinned people of South Africa patched up their differences and created a system of racial domination against the dark-skinned people of their own land. The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane societies the world has ever known. Now, in the last decade of the twentieth century, and my own eight decades as a man that system has been overturned forever and replaced by one that recognised the rights and freedoms of all peoples, regardless of the colour of their skin.
[i] ‘I’ here refers to:
(a) Klerk
(b) Zenani
(c) Nelson Mandela
(d) Mbeki
[ii] The narrator was overwhelmed with:
(a) a sense or charity
(b) a sense of gratitude
(c) a sense of insecurity
(d) a sense of history
[iii] The system of racial domination against the Black of South Africa has been overturned:
(a) in the last decade of the 20th century
(b) in 18th century
(c) in late 18th century
(d) in the first decade of 19th century
[iv] The system of racial domination has been replaced by a system that:
(a) confirms the education of the Blacks
(b) recognises the rights and freedom of all people
(c) recollects the bitter experiences
(d) focusses on the personality development
[v] The word ‘patched up’ means:
(a) solved
(b) filled
(c) pasted
(d) charmed
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Set-5
1. Ans : (d) Nelson Mandela
2. Ans : (a) international leaders and dignitaries
3. Ans : (b) South Africa’s first democratic govt.
4. Ans : (c) lovely sandstone amphitheatre
5. Ans : (d) a building without a roof
Set-6
1. Ans : (c) Nelson Mandela
2. Ans : (b) as the oppressed
3. Ans : (d) a prisoner of hatred
4. Ans : (a) taking away other’s Freedom
5. Ans : (b) a strong dislike without any good reason
Set-7
1. Ans : (a) Nelson Mandela
2. Ans : (d) an illusion
3. Ans : (b) for himself
4. Ans : (a) longed for
5. Ans : (c) of marrying and having a family
Set-8
1. Ans : (c) Nelson Mandela
2. Ans : (d) a sense of history
3. Ans : (a) in the last decade of the 20th century
4. Ans : (b) recognises the rights and freedom of all people
5. Ans : (a) solved
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