Practice Test

Q1) The guests at the spectacular ceremony are being called distinguished because : Show Answer

Q2) It is a victory for 'human dignity'. Pick the option that lists the correct answer for what 'human dignity' would include. Show Answer

Q3) Why does the speaker say that it is a 'rare privilege'? He says this as they have Show Answer

Q4) Pick the option that showcases the correct usage of 'host' as in the extract. Show Answer

Q5) The title that best suits this extract is: Show Answer

Q6) Why do you think the speaker mentions some freedoms as 'transitory'? Show Answer

Q7) Choose the option that best fits the usage of the word 'illusion' as used in the extract. Show Answer

Q8) The speaker says, 'at first as a student I wanted freedom only for myself.' Why do you think he only thought about himself? Show Answer

Q9) A part of the extract has been paraphrased. Choose the option that includes the most appropriate solution to the blanks in the given paraphrase of the extract.
The speaker's belief about the freedom, since childhood proved false. It was not until the speaker grew up to be a young man when it (i) _____ on him that he was (ii) _____ of freedom. Then he began (iii) _____ it. Show Answer

Q10) 'I' here refers to: Show Answer

Q11) The freedom of the author, who was a black was: Show Answer

Q12) The author felt the greater hunger for: Show Answer

Q13) The word 'curtailed' means: Show Answer

Q14) The desire for freedom of the people transformed: Show Answer

Q15) The title that best suits this extract is: Show Answer

Q16) Why do you think the speaker mentions some freedoms as 'transitory'? Show Answer

Q17) Choose the option that fits the usage of the word 'illusion' as used in the extract. Show Answer

Q18) The speaker says, 'at first as as student I wanted freedom only for myself.'
Why do you think he only thought about himself? Show Answer

Q19) A part of the extract has been paraphrased. Choose the option that includes the most appropriate solution to the blanks in the given paraphrase of the extract.
The speaker's belief about freedom, since childhood proved false. It was not until the speaker grew up to be a young man when it (i) _____ on him that he was (ii) _____ of freedom. Then he began (iii) _____ it. Show Answer

Q20) 'I' in the given line refers to: Show Answer

Q21) Choose the option that lists the set of statements that are TRUE according to the given extract.
1. The narrator was mindful of what he was saying.
2. The narrator spoke about the unrelated things.
3. The narrator believed that he could have been arrested.
4. The narrator got a salute from the people.
5. A jet never left a smoke trail behind.
6. The colours were of the Nigerian flag.
7. The colours were of the South African flag. Show Answer

Q22) The fact that 'I' was not unmindful to 'their' arresting him instead of saluting him shows that: Show Answer

Q23) Where are the above lines taken from? Show Answer

Q24) What is the policy of Apartheid? Show Answer

Q25) The blacks were _____. Show Answer

Q26) Nelson Mandela defined the meaning of 'courage' as _____ . Show Answer

Q27) Synonym of the word 'profound' is: Show Answer

Q28) Antonym of the word 'wisdom' is: Show Answer

Q29) How does Nelson Mandela define the meaning of courage? Show Answer

Q30) Where did ceremonies take place? Show Answer

Q31) Which flame can be hidden but never extinguished? Show Answer

Q32) Which day was the largest gathering o international leaders on South Africa soil for the installation of South Africa's first democratic, non-racial government? Show Answer

Q33) What is a country's greatest wealth? Show Answer

Q34) What does depths of oppression create? Show Answer

Q35) Who, according to Mandela is not free? Show Answer

Q36) Which party did Mandela join? Show Answer

Q37) What realisations did Mandela have of his boyhood freedom? Show Answer

Q38) Why were two National Anthems sung? Show Answer

Q39) What unintended effect did the decades of oppression and brutality had? Show Answer

Q40) "The structure they created formed the basis of one the harshest, most inhumane, societies the world has ever known." What structure is Mandela talking about? Show Answer

Q41) The spectacular array of South African jets was a display of : Show Answer

Q42) What was it that the nation needed to be liberated from? Show Answer

Q43) What change brought international leaders to South Africa? Show Answer

Q44) How many Deputy Presidents were elected? Show Answer

Q45) When was the inauguration day? Show Answer

Q46) It was a celebration of South Africa's first _____ government. Show Answer

Q47) What comes more naturally to heart according to Mandela? Show Answer

Q48) What created a lasting wound in Nelson's country?
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Q49) What has the Nelson Mandela achieved? Show Answer

Q50) How did Mandela's hunger for freedom change his entire life?
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Q51) A man who takes away another man's freedom is _____. Show Answer

Q52) What began Mandela's hunger for freedom? Show Answer

Q53) What are man's obligation in life? Show Answer

Q54) Whom did Mandela wanted to thank but couldn't? Show Answer

Q55) What colours does the new South African flag possess? Show Answer

Q56) "We have achieved our political emancipation." What is the meaning of emancipation? Show Answer

Q57) "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 _____." Show Answer

Q58) Why is it easy to learn to love? Show Answer

Q59) Mandela became South Africa's first _____ president. Show Answer

Q60) _____ is the political system that separates people according to their race. Show Answer

Q61) _____ was Nelson's Mandela daughter.
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Q62) _____ was sorn as second deputy president. Show Answer

Q63) On the day of inauguration, Mandela was overwhelmed with a _____. Show Answer

Q64) Find the correct statement in the following: Show Answer

Q65) Find the correct statement in the following: Show Answer

Q66) Rearrange the sentences in the correct sequence and choose the correct option:
(a) The inauguration would be the largest gathering ever of international leaders on South African soil.
(b) Let freedom reign. God bless Africa!
(c) the white- skinned peoples of South Africa patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against the dark-skinned peoples of their own land.
(d) I was pained that I was not able to thank them and that they were not able to see what their sacrifices had wrought. Show Answer

Q67) Rearrange the sentences in the correct sequence and choose the correct option:
(a) 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.
(b) But then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free.
(c) 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.
(d) The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. Show Answer

Q68) Assertion: Nelson Mandela found that he was prevented from fulfilling his obligations.
Reason: He was born with a hunger to be free.
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Q69) Assertion: Nelson was overwhelmed with a sense of history on the day of inauguration.
Reason: His fellow freedom fighters had struggled to attain freedom from the whites
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Q70) Assertion: People in Africa would have to spend less years recovering from the profound hurt.
Reason: The apartheid's policy created a deep wound on the people Show Answer

Q71) Assertion: Two National Anthems were sung.
Reason: They wanted to pay respect to whites and blacks equally.
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Q72) Assertion: The highest Military Generals of the South African Defence Force saluted Mandela.
Reason: A new, non-racial government was selected and Mandela was the Prime minister of South Africa. Show Answer