Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

............... 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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

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.

Accepted Answer

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

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 17

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.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer