These questions must be turned in by Monday, January 6, 2014 and written neatly on loose-leaf paper, NO EXCEPTIONS!
1)
HOW did
Nelson Mandela first come to the world’s attention?
2) WHAT was
apartheid?
3)
WHAT is the
African National Congress?
4)
WHAT did Mr.
Mandela say in his courtroom speech when he was arrested in the 1960s, a speech
this video calls “one of the most eloquent of his life”?
5)
WHERE did he
spend 18 years in prison?
6)
WHAT was “one
of the most momentous decisions of his life,” made without consulting his
comrades in the African National Congress because he knew they would resist?
7)
WHEN was he
released from prison?
8)
WHAT was South
Africa like at the time he was freed?
9)
WHO is F. W.
de Klerk?
10)
HOW does this
video depict and describe Mr. Mandela’s political campaign and the elections of
1994?
11)
HOW did he
use rugby to win over white South Africans when he was president?
12)
HOW, according to the video, did Mr.
Mandela fall short as president?
13)
HOW did Mr.
Mandela spend his life after he left the presidency?
14)
According to Bill Keller, for WHAT will he be remembered first and
foremost?
The following questions must be answered on the blog by Sunday December 22, 2013.
In his
obituary, Mr. Keller writes:
The question most often asked about Mr. Mandela was how,
after whites had systematically humiliated his people, tortured and murdered
many of his friends, and cast him into prison for 27 years, he could be so
evidently free of spite.
Read the first page of this
obituary. WHY do you think Nelson Mandela was so
able to “keep hatred in check” and be the leader he was?
WHAT lines,
details or quotations in the obituary, or in any of the other Times pieces about Mr. Mandela, do you find
most moving, compelling or interesting?
