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Long Walk to Freedom Test 03
1. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

"We have, at last, achieved our political emancipation". We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the
continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
i. Who is the speaker?
a. Nelson Mandela
b. Zenani
c. Thabo Mbeki
d. de Klerk
ii. What pledge does he take?
a. To liberate his people from poverty
b. To make the nation free from suffering and deprivations
c. To devote himself to the wellbeing of his people
d. All of these
iii. The NOUN for the word emancipate is ________.
iv. What has the speaker achieved?
v. Which country's president was the speaker?
a. USA
b. Australia
c. South Africa
d. India
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2. How did a law-abiding advocate become a criminal? Answer in the context of the lesson A Long Walk to freedom.
3. What does Mandela mean when he says he is “simply the sum of all those African patriots” who had gone before him?
4. Why did Nelson Mandela say, "The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity."
5. What were Mandela’s opinions about the first and last decades of the twentieth century? Why did he say on the day of
the inauguration that he was overwhelmed with a sense of history?
6. What different concepts of freedom did Mandela have at different stages of his life?
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Long Walk to Freedom Test 03
Solution
1. i. a. Nelson Mandela
ii. d. All of these
iii. Emancipation
iv. The speaker has achieved political emancipation.
v. c. South Africa
2. The law-abiding advocate became a criminal with the desire to live with dignity and self-respect. His desire to be free
from the restraints, ill-treatment and racial discrimination done to all the Blacks on the land of South Africa changed a
law-abiding citizen into a bold criminal. The law loving man was forced to live like a monk. This change came when the
hunger for freedom became a hunger for the freedom of his own people.
3. When Mandela says that he was ‘simply the sum of all African patriots’ he means that he could identify with the
unimaginable sacrifices of all those noble and courageous men who fought for the collective freedom of the African
people. He couldn't even thank them for what they did for this country and their people.
4. Mandela always thought that both the oppressor and the oppressed are deprived of their humanity. The oppressor is a
prisoner of hatred while the oppressed has no confidence in humanity so both of them need to be liberated.
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5. On the day of the inauguration, the speaker’s mind went back to history. He remembered that in the first decade, after the
bitter Anglo-Boer war and before Mandela's birth, the whites skinned people of South Africa erected a system of racial
domination against the dark-skinned people of their own land. They ruled over South Africa and they made
discrimination against the blacks. They built a system of racial discrimination against blacks. The structure they created
formed the basis of one of the hardest, most inhumane, societies in the world. But in the last decade, this cruel system
was overturned and a new system replaced it. It was the first democratic government of South Africa. There would be no
discrimination on the basis of colour. That is why, on the day of the inauguration, he was overwhelmed with a sense of
history.
6. Mandela had different concepts of freedom at different stages of life. As a boy, he had an illusion of freedom. He thought
he was born free. He believed that as long as he obeyed his elders he had his freedom. It was limited only to run in fields,
swim in the local stream and ride on the slow-moving bulls. As a student he cared for transitory freedom, freedom to stay
out at night, read books and go anywhere as he pleased. When he became a young man he yearned for basic and
honourable freedoms of achieving his potential, earning his keep, marrying, having a family and living a lawful life. As
he grew older he realised that it was not just his freedom that was being curtailed but the freedom of all blacks. The
hunger for his own freedom became the hunger for the freedom of all his people. He realised that true freedom is not
individual freedom but freedom for all. To attain this aim, he joined the African National Congress.
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