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Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom Class 10
Q.1 Where did the ceremonies take place? Can you name any public buildings in India that are made of sandstone?
Ans. The ceremonies took place in the lovely sandstone amphitheater formed by the Union Building Pretoria.
In India, The Parliament, the President’s house, the Red Fort, The Jama Masjid, etc. are made of sandstone.
Q.2 Can you say how 10 May is an autumn day in South Africa?
Ans. Geographically, South Africa is close to the equator. So seasons come first over there. Politically, the day symbolizes the shedding of the leaves of slavery which continue for three hundred years in the form of white rule.
Q.3. At the beginning of his speech, Mandela mentions. “an extraordinary human disaster.” What does he mean by this? What is the “glorious ………achievement” he speaks of at the end?
Ans. By “an extraordinary human disaster” he means the oppression of the black by the white that lasted too long.
The Political independence and liberation of the black from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discriminations is a glorious human achievement.
Q.4 What does Mandela thank the international leaders for?
Ans. He thanks the international leaders for coming to take possession of the native people of South Africa. It is a common victory for justice, for peace, and for human dignity.
Q.5 What ideals does he set out for the future of South Africa?
Ans. He sets out the ideals of liberating his people from poverty, deprivation, suffering, and discrimination. He was also confident that South Africa will never again experience the oppression of one another.
Q.6 What do the military generals do? How has their attitude changed and why?
Ans: The military generals salute Mr. Mandela and pledged their loyalty to democracy and the newly elected president.
Previously, they had arrested Mr. Mandela but now saluted him. It is because Mandela has become the president now.
Q.7 Why were two national anthems sung?
Ans. Two national anthems were sung as there were two main races. One was of the white and the other of the blacks, The anthem of the black was the old anthem of the Republic.
Q.8 How does Mandela describe the systems of government of his country (1) in the first decade and in the final decade of the twentieth Century?
Ans. (1) In the first decade of the twentieth century the white of South Africa patched up their differences. They built a system of racial domination against the black of their own land.
(2) In the last decade, their system had been overturned forever. It was replaced by another. The new system recognized the rights and freedom of all people regardless of their skin color.
Q.9 What does courage mean to Mandela?
Ans. By courage, Mandela means not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear.
Q.10 Which does Mardily think is natural, to love or to hate?
Ans. He thinks that love comes more naturally to the human heart than hate.
Q.11 What “twin obligations” does Mandela mention?
Ans. Mandela mentions the twin obligations, One is an obligation to his family, his parents, his wife, and his children. Second, obligations to his people, his community, and his country.
Q.12 What did being free mean to Mandela as a boy and as a student? How does he contrast ‘these transitory freedoms’ with the basic and honorable freedoms?
Ans. As a student, he meant to be free to stay out at night. It was to read what he was pleased to read and go where he chose.
As a boy, he means to run in the fields near his mother’s hut, swim in the clear stream, and ride the backs of slow-moving bulls.
There were the ‘transitory freedoms’. But the ‘basic and the honorable, freedoms’ were the freedoms of the people. These were to live with dignity and self-respect.
Q.13 Does Mandely think the oppressor is free? Why / Why not?
Ans. Mandela thinks that the oppressor is not free like the oppressed. A person who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred. He is locked in prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
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Q.1 Why did such a large number of international leaders attend the inauguration? What did it signify the triumph of?
Ans. A large number of international leaders attended the inauguration to pay their respect to this non-racial government. It signified the triumph of human freedom and democracy. It also signified the importance of political independence.
Q.2 What does Mandela mean when he says he is “simply the sum of all these African patriots’ Who had gone before him? –
Ans. Mandela wants to pay his tribute to all the people, who had sacrificed their lives for the sake of freedom. He showed his gratitude to those heroes who had gone before him because they had paved the path of cooperation and unity for him.
Q.3 Would you agree that the” depth of oppression” creates “heights of characters”? How does Mandela illustrate this? Can you add your oven examples to this argument?
Ans: Yes, I would agree that depths of oppression create heights of character. Mandela says that the decades of oppression and brutality produced many patriots. They were Oliver Tambas, Walter Sisulus, Chief Luthuli, etc.
In India, We had Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaha dal Nehru, Sadar Patel, Subash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh etc.
Q.4 How did Mandela’s understanding of freedom change with age and experience?
Ans. In boyhood, Mandela’s understanding of freedom was up to physical and dietary freedoms, as a student, up to transitory freedoms, and at a young age, he yearned for basic and honorable freedoms.
Q.5 How did Mandela’s ‘hunger for freedom’ change his life?
Ans: Mandela was transformed from a frightened young man into a bold one, a law-abiding attorney into a criminal, from a family-loving husband into a man without a home, and from a life-loving man into a monk.
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