Deck 6: Nelson Mandela: A Champion for Human Rights and Equality

Question 1

The South African activist and former president …………….helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights.

A)f. w. de klerk
B)nelson mandela
C)martin luther king, jr
D)edmund burke

Answer 1

nelson mandela

Question 2

A member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1940s, ……………. was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority's oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa.

A)nelson mandela
B)f. w. de klerk
C)martin luther king, jr
D)edmund burke

Answer 2

nelson mandela

Question 3

………….. became the first black president of South Africa in 1994.

A)f. w. de klerk
B)nelson mandela
C)martin luther king, jr
D)edmund burke

Answer 3

nelson mandela

Question 4

..................was born on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa- speaking Thimbu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo.

A)nelson mandela
B)f. w. de klerk
C)martin luther king, jr
D)olivia ball

Question 5

...................mother, Nosekeni Fanny, was the third of Mphakanyiswa's four wives, who together bore him nine daughters and four sons.

A)nelson mandela's
B)f. w. de klerk's
C)martin luther king, jr
D)olivia ball's

Question 6

.................. went on to attend the Clarkebury Boarding Institute and Healdton, a Methodist secondary school, where he excelled in boxing and track as well as academics.

A)f. w. de klerk
B)nelson mandela
C)martin luther king, jr
D)olivia ball

Question 7

In 1939 ...............entered the elite University of Fort Hare, the only Western-style higher learning institute for South African blacks at the time.

A)nelson mandela
B)f. w. de klerk
C)abraham lincoln
D)paul gready

Question 8

In 1940 .............and several other students, including his friend and future business partner Oliver Tambo were sent home for participating in a boycott against university policies.

A)nelson mandela
B)f. w. de klerk
C)abraham lincoln
D)paul gready

Question 9

After learning that his guardian had arranged a marriage for him, ............. fled to Johannesburg and worked first as a night watchman and then as a law clerk while completing his bachelor's degree by correspondence.

A)f. w. de klerk
B)nelson mandela
C)abraham lincoln
D)paul gready

Question 10

..............studied law at the University of Witwatersrand, where he became involved in the movement against racial discrimination and forged key relationships with black and white activists.

A)f. w. de klerk
B)nelson mandela
C)abraham lincoln
D)karel vasak

Question 11

............... spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the brutal Robben Island Prison, a former leper colony off the coast of Cape Town, where he was confined to a small cell without a bed or plumbing and compelled to do hard labour in a lime quarry.

A)abraham lincoln
B)f. w. de klerk
C)nelson mandela
D)karel vasak

Question 12

While in confinement Mandela earned a bachelor of law degree from the University of .............. and served as a mentor to his fellow prisoners, encouraging them to seek better treatment through nonviolent resistance.

A)london
B)new delhi
C)amritsar
D)allahabad

Question 13

.............. drafted his autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom,"

A)nelson mandela
B)f. w. de klerk
C)abraham lincoln
D)mrs. dadabhoy

Question 14

In 1980 ............ introduced a "Free Nelson Mandela" campaign that made the jailed leader a household name and fuelled the growing international outcry against South Africa's racist regime.

A)oliver tambo
B)f. w. de klerk
C)abraham lincoln
D)mrs. ambujammal

Question 15

In ............. Mandela was moved to Polls moor Prison on the mainland.

A)1962
B)1972
C)1982
D)1992

Question 16

In 1983, newly elected president ............. lifted the ban on the ANC and called for a nonracist South Africa, breaking with the conservatives in his party.

A)robert e. lee
B)abraham lincoln
C)f. w. de klerk
D)ulysses s. grant

Question 17

On February 11, 1990, ................ ordered Mandela's release.

A)f. w. de klerk
B)abraham lincoln
C)winfield scott
D)mandela

Question 18

..................was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa, with de Klerk serving as his first deputy.

A)mandela
B)abraham lincoln
C)robert e. lee
D)ulysses s. grant

Question 19

As president, ........... established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights and political violations committed by both supporters and opponents of apartheid between 1960 and 1994.

A)mandela
B)abraham lincoln
C)winfield scott
D)thabo mbeki

Question 20

In 1996 ................. presided over the enactment of a new South African constitution, which established a strong central government based on majority rule and prohibited discrimination against minorities, including whites.

A)abraham lincoln
B)thabo mbeki
C)makgatho
D)mandela

Question 21

Improving race relations, discouraging blacks from retaliating against the white minority and building a new international image of a united South Africa were central to President ......... agenda.

A)mandela's
B)oliver tambo's
C)abraham lincoln's
D)winfield scott's

Question 22

In.............., the United Nations declared July 18 "Nelson Mandela International Day" in recognition of the South African leader's contributions to democracy, freedom, peace and human rights around the world.

A)2001
B)2002
C)2004
D)2009

Question 23

Nelson Mandela was born July 18, 1918 in the royal lineage of the ..............dynasty.

A)thimbu
B)ulanova
C)romanov
D)mughal

Question 24

................ continued to study and practice the nonviolent resistance methods of Mahatma Gandhi until the ruling National Party began crushing all opposition.

A)nelson mandela
B)abraham lincoln
C)robert e. lee
D)ulysses s. grant

Question 25

A few years later .................. was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island for his actions against the government.

A)nelson mandela
B)desmond tutu
C)abraham lincoln
D)winfield scott