CBSE Class 10 English Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom MCQs

Question : He was surrounded by:
(a) international leaders and dignitaries
(b) family members
(c) national heroes
(d) British soldiers

Answer :  A

Question : The spectacular array of South African jets was a display of –
(a) military’s precision
(b) military’s loyalty to democracy
(c) none of the above
(d) both 1 and 2

Answer :  D

Question : “We thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common victory for ____.”
(a) justice
(b) peace
(c) human dignity
(d) all of the above

Answer :  D

Question : What realisations did Mandela have of his boyhood freedom?
(a) it is just an illusion
(b) he was born free
(c) freedom was meant for kids
(d) he had no realisations

Answer:  B

Question : ‘1’ here refers to:
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Mbeki
(c) Kierk
(d) Zenani

Answer :  A

Question : When was the inauguration day?
(a) 10 May
(b) 10 March
(c) 20 May
(d) 20 March

Answer :  A

Question : Where did ceremonies take place?
(a) Rockstone amphitheater
(b) Sandstone amphitheater
(c) Glass stone amphitheater
(d) None of the Above

Answer:  B

Question : Whom did Mandela wanted to thank but couldn’t?
(a) his family
(b) white rulers
(c) African patriots who no longer existed
(d) Military

Answer :   C

Question : How many deputy presidents were elected?
(a) two
(b) three
(c) one
(d) none

Answer :  A

Question : According to Mandela, what is the greatest wealth of a nation?
(a) minerals
(b) gems
(c) diamonds
(d) people

Answer :  D

Question : In the article, who have the people been compared to?
(a) Utensils
(b) Minerals and Gems
(c) Technology
(d) None of the Above

Answer :  B

Question : How does Nelson Mandela define the meaning of courage?
(a) Triumph over fear
(b) Triumph over love
(c) Triumph over selfish
(d) Triumph over poverty

Answer :  A

Question : The word ‘resilience’ means:
(a) the ability to deal with any kind of hardship
(b) the ability to conquer the foe
(d) the ability to dive deep
(d) The ability to keep mum

Answer :  A

Question : What change brought international leaders to South Africa?
(a) End of Apartheid
(b) humanity
(c) peace
(d) trade negotiations

Answer :  A

Question : The narrator was overwhelmed with:
(a) a sense of charity
(b) a sense of gratitude
(c) a sense of insecurity
(d) a sense of history

Answer :  D

Question : When was the inauguration day?
(a) 10 May
(b) 10 March
(c) 20 May
(d) 20 March

Answer :  A

Question : What change brought international leaders to South Africa?
(a) End of Apartheid
(b) humanity
(c) peace
(d) trade negotiations

Answer :  A

Question : It is a victory for ‘human dignity’. Pick the option that lists the correct answer for what ‘human dignity’ would include.
(a) i) equality ii) liberty iii) indecency
(b) i) liberty ii) indecency iii) self-respect
(c) i) immorality ii) self-respect iii) equality
(d) i) equality ii) liberty iii) self-respect

Answer:  D

Question- The spectacular array of South African jets was a display of –
(a) military’s precision
(b) military’s loyalty to democracy
(c) both 1 and 2
(d) none of the above

Answer :  C

Question : A man who takes away another man’s freedom is _____
(a) White
(b) a prisoner of hatred
(c) criminal
(d) rude

Answer :  B

Question : What has the Nelson Mandela achieved?
(a) Political emancipation
(b) Political love
(c) Political goodness
(d) None of the Above

Answer :  A

Question : What comes more naturally to heart according to Mandela?
(a) hatred
(b) unity
(c) love
(d) racial discrimination

Answer:  C

Question : The word ‘amphitheatre’ here means: :
(a) a building with a conical tent
(b) a building with ¡ron-fencipg
(c) a building with triangular shape
(d) a building without a roof

Answer:  D

Question- What is a country’s greatest wealth?
(a) Its minerals
(b) Its people
(c) Its technology
(d) None of the Above

Answer:  B

Question : What unintended effect did the decades of oppression and brutality had?
(a) created men of extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity
(b) Poverty and suffering
(c) boycot from foreign nations
(d) both 2 and 3

Answer :  A

Question : ‘1’ here refers to:
(a) Mbeki
(b) Zenani
(c) Kierk
(d) Nelson Mandela

Answer :  D

Question- Why were two National Anthems sung?
(a) to imply unity
(b) to mark the end of racial discrimination
(c) to mark the end of gender discrimination
(d) Both 1 and 2

Answer :  D

Question- Which party did Mandela join?
(a) Indian National Congress
(b) African National Congress
(c) National African Party
(d) he did not join any party

Answer :  B

Question : The word ‘curtailed’ means:
(a) increased
(b) opposed
(c) reduced
(d) enlarged

Answer :  C

Question : What has the Nelson Mandela achieved?
(a) Political emancipation
(b) Political love
(c) Political goodness
(d) None of the Above

Answer :  A

Question : Pick the option that showcases the usage of ‘host’ as in the extract.
(a) He was praised for his hospitality as the host of the party.
(b) She was able to host the event without any hindrance.
(c) She met the host and apologised for her friend’s misbehaviour.
(d) He is the best host that one can ever come across.

Answer:  B

Question : What does depths of oppression create?
(a) oppressed
(b) heights of character
(c) poverty
(d) lack of freedom

Answer :  B

Question : The desire for freedom of the people transformed :
(a) an animal into a man
(b) a frightened leader into a minister
(c) a frightened young man into a bold one
(d) a man into a woman

Answer:  C

Question- What comes more naturally to heart according to Mandela?
(a) hatred
(b) unity
(c) love
(d) racial discrimination

Answer :  C

Question : “The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane, societies the world has ever known.” What structure is Mandela talking about?
(a) Racial domination against the black-skinned
(b) Poverty and suffering
(c) Discrimination against the poor
(d) oppression of women

Answer :  A

Question : The word ‘patched up’ means:
(a) solved
(b) filled
(c) pasted
(d) charmed

Answer :  A

Question : The desire for freedom of the people transformed :
(a) an animal into a man
(b) a frightened leader into a minister
(c) a frightened young man into a bold one
(d) a man into a woman

Answer :  C

INTRODUCTION 

The chapter is an extract from Mandela’s autobiography ‘Long Walk to Freedom’. It provides us a glimpse of the early life of Nelson Mandela, his education, thirty years in prison and the pains he had suffered in his young age. It also recounts his fight for the freedom of his own people who were tortured by the whites.

SUMMARY 

The oath taking ceremony of Nelson Mandela, the first black President of South Africa, and his colleagues took place on 10th May. It was a historic occasion. Dignitaries and representatives of 140 countries came to attend it. The ceremony took place in the lovely sandstone amphitheatre, formed by the Union Buildings in Pretoria. First, Mr. De Klerk the 2nd Deputy President, then Thabo Mbeki the 1st Deputy President were sworn in. Nelson Mandela took oath as the President. He pledged to obey and uphold the constitution and devote himself to the well-being of the republic and its people.
Then President Mandela addressed the guests. He welcomed and thanked them for having come to take possession with the people of his country for a common victory of justice, peace and human dignity. After getting political freedom, his government pledged to liberate people from the bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discriminations. He wished the sun of freedom to shine on his country forever.
After the ceremony, the display of military force was carried out. Finally, the jets left off smoke trail of different colours, e.g., black, red, green, blue, and golden colour of the new South African flag. In the end, two National Anthems were sung by the whites and the blacks.
Later on that day, Mandela reformed history. In the first decade of the 20th Century, a few years after Anglo-Boer War before his birth, the white skinned patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against the dark skinned people of South Africa. It was the birth of Apartheid, the harshest in human creation. Now, in the last decade of the 20th century, the system has been overturned forever recognizing the rights of all people irrespective of the colour of their skin or religion.
He remembered the suffering and courage of thousands of patriots who participated in the long struggles but were not there to witness the fruit of their achievement.
It was a reign of oppression and cruelty that created a deep wound in African people. But deep oppression produced the Oliver Tambos, the Walter Sisulus, the Yusuf Dadoos. The Chief Luthulis, the Bram Fischers, the Robert Sobukwes, etc.—men of unparallel courage, wisdom and generosity. Mandela thinks South Africa’s real wealth is her people who are finer, truer than the purest diamonds.
His comrades taught him what courage meant.
It is not the absence of fear but victory over it. No one is born to hate another on the basis of colour of skin or religion. If they can learn to hate, then why not learn to love which comes naturally. He believes in the goodness of man that never dies.
Every man has twin obligations, one towards his family and the other towards his people and his country.
In the reign of Apartheid, if one tried to fulfill his duty towards his people, he was ripped off his family and home. Mandela said he was born free. He had the freedom to run in the fields, swim in the stream and ride on a bull. Boyhood freedom was an illusion. As a student he wanted transitory freedom—freedom to stay out at night, to read books of his choice. As a young man, he yearned for basic honourable freedoms of achieving his potential, of earning, of marrying and having a family. When he became a young man and  joined the African National Congress Party, he first wanted freedom only for himself and then for all his people and his country. Both need to be liberated. The oppressor is a prisoner of hatred, prejudice and narrow mindedness. The oppressor and the oppressed, both are robbed of their humanity.

Extract Based Questions

Read the extract given below carefully and answer the questions that follow : 

The policy of Apartheid created a deep and lasting wound in my country and my people. All of us will spend many years, if not generations, recovering from that profound hurt. But the decades of oppression and brutality had another, unintended effect and that was that it produced Oliver Tambos,
Walter Sisulus, Chief Luthulis, etc., men of such extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity that their like may never be known again.

(a) Whom does ‘my’ refer to in the passage ?
(a) Chief Luthulis
(b) Nelson Mandela
(c) Oliver Tambos
(d) Walter Sisulus

Answer : B

(b) Who were the people of extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity?
(a) Oliver Tambos
(b) Walter Sisulus
(c) Chief Luthulis
(d) All of them

Answer : D

(c) From the passage, find one word which means ‘a period of ten years’.
(a) apartheid
(b) profound
(c) unintended
(d) decades

Answer : D

(d) What created a lasting wound in Nelson’s country ?
(a) Unintended effect
(b) Policy of apartheid
(c) Oppression
(d) Brutality

Answer : B

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 amphitheatre formed by the Union Buildings in Pretoria. For decades this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colours and nations for the installation of South Africa’s first democratic, non-racial government.

(a) When was the installation day of South Africa’s first democratic, non-racial government?
(a) 10th June
(b) 10th August
(c) 10th April
(d) 10th May

Answer : D

(b) Which ceremonies is referred in the paragraph?
(a) Prize distribution
(b) Installation
(c) Inauguration
(d) Republic Day

Answer : C

(c) Which word in the passage means the same as ‘Placement of person in office with ceremony’ ?
(a) installation
(b) inauguration
(c) gathering
(d) None

Answer : A

(d) Where did the ceremonies take place ?
(a) Open ground
(b) President house
(c) Lovely Sandstone amphitheatre
(d) Stadium

Answer : C

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion.
People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Even in the grimmest times in prison, when my comrades and I were pushed to our limits, I would see a glimmer of humanity in one of the guards, perhaps just for a second, but it was enough to reassure me and keep me going. Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

(a) What comes more naturally to human heart than any other emotion?
(a) hate
(b) anxiety
(c) love
(d) anger

Answer : C

(b) According to Mandela, Man’s ___________ is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
(a) goodness
(b) kindness
(c) smartness
(d) understanding

Answer : A

(c) Trace a word from the passage that means “Severe”.
(a) comrades
(b) humanity
(c) grimmest
(d) extinguished

Answer : C

(d) In the passage man’s goodness is compared to what?
(a) hate
(b) grimmest
(c) humanity
(d) flame

Answer : D

‘Perhaps it requires such depths of oppression to create such heights of character. My country is rich in the minerals and gems that lie beneath its soil, but I have always known that its greatest wealth is its people, finer and truer than the purest diamonds’.

(a) Whose country is referred to here ?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) George Washington
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Martin Luther King

Answer : A

(b) What is a country’s greatest wealth ?
(a) its economy
(b) its infrastructure
(c) its people
(d) its resources

Answer : C

(c) The minerals and gems are compared to whom?
(a) Diamonds
(b) Wealth
(c) Resources
(d) People

Answer : D

(d) Mention the synonym of ‘Valuable stones’ in the passage ?
(a) Minerals
(b) Diamonds
(c) Gems
(d) Soil

Answer : C



“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.

(a) Who is the speaker ?
(a) Walter Sisulus
(b) Chief Luthulis
(c) Oliver Tambos
(d) Nelson Mandela

Answer : D

(b) What have they at last achieved?
(a) political recognition
(b) political name
(c) political emancipation
(d) political fame

Answer : C

(c) Trace a word from the passage that means “a formal promise”.
(a) pledge
(b) promise
(c) swear
(d) agree

Answer : A

(d) Where is the pledge taken by Nelson Mandela?
(a) United States of America
(b) South Africa
(c) Africa
(d) United Kingdom

Answer : B