QUIZ : 1
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Read the extract carefully and answer the questions those follow
“It was only when I began to learn that my boyhood freedom was an
illusion, when I discovered as a young man that my freedom had already
been taken from me, that I began to hunger for it. At first as a student I
wanted freedom only for myself, the transitory freedoms of being able to
stay out at night, read what I pleased and go where I chose. Later, as a
young man in Johannesburg, I yearned for the basic and honourable
freedoms…”
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.
i) desired
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