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Nelson Mandela Worksheet

The document is a worksheet focused on Nelson Mandela, exploring his views on freedom, the impact of apartheid, and the sacrifices made by black people for political independence. It includes questions about Mandela's reflections on humanity, obligations, and the significance of freedom for civilization. Additionally, it contains contextual passages for analysis, prompting students to interpret Mandela's words and the historical context of his experiences.

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Nelson Mandela Worksheet

The document is a worksheet focused on Nelson Mandela, exploring his views on freedom, the impact of apartheid, and the sacrifices made by black people for political independence. It includes questions about Mandela's reflections on humanity, obligations, and the significance of freedom for civilization. Additionally, it contains contextual passages for analysis, prompting students to interpret Mandela's words and the historical context of his experiences.

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TB 1: Ch-2: Nelson Mandela Worksheet

Subject: English

1. What does Nelson Mandela refer to as an extraordinary human disaster?


2. Describe the views of Mandela for the black people who fought and sacrificed their
likes for the countrys political independence?
3. What does Mandela mean to say that the oppressor and the oppressed alike are
robbed of their humanity?
4. Describe the obligations which the author is talking about and also describe his
feelings for them?
5. Describe the value of freedom for the human beings and how it is important for the
growth of civilization and humanism as described in the lesson Nelson Mandela:
Long Walk to Freedom.
6. How did Mandela’s understanding of freedom change with age and experience?
I. Explain with reference to the context:
1. We, who were outlaws not so long ago, have today been given the rare privilege to be
host to the nations of the world on our own soil. 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 justice, for peace, for human dignity. 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. What does ‘we’ refer in the first line of the passage?
B. What did the people of South Africa achieve at last?
C. The word ‘bondage’ means …… in the passage.
D. Give a synonym of ’emancipation’.
2. 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 the Oliver Tambos, the Walter Sisulus, the 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?
B. Name two persons of extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity mentioned in
the passage?
C. Trace a word from the passage which means the same as ‘a period of ten years.
D. What created a lasting wound in Nelson’s country?

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