#5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading
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Check Your Understanding
1.
From the context of the passage, what is the best meaning of
apartheid?
a. the separation of black people and white people
c. putting people in prison
b. a revolution against the government
d. sharing power with both races
2.
Which fact would support the proposition that Nelson Mandela was a good leader?
a. He was always punctual, or on time.
c. He loves listening to classical music.
b. He refused to encourage violence against whites. d. While in prison, he worked in a
gravel pit.
3.
From the context of the passage, which is the best synonym for
mistreatment?
a. kindness
c. running away
b. cruelty
d. bad feelings
4.
Which of the following is an opinion and
not a fact?
a. Nelson Mandela was elected in 1994 to be president of South Africa.
b. Mandela has been married three times.
c. The apartheid laws began in 1948.
d. Nelson Mandela was the most important leader in the world.
Nelson Mandela became one of the
best-known people in the world while he was
in a prison cell. He spent twenty-seven years
in prison. The leaders of South Africa wanted
to keep blacks as second-class citizens. They
put Mandela in prison because he publicly
opposed their policy called
apartheid. This
policy forced all blacks to carry a passbook if
they left home to go to another area. It was
a way of controlling the movements of all
blacks. Mandela publicly burned his passbook
after the police shot sixty-nine blacks. They
had gathered to peacefully protest against
passbooks and forced separation. Blacks were
kept separate from whites in all public areas
and services. They had to live in different
towns. They had to use different restaurants,
schools, and even movie theaters.
In 1963, Mandela was arrested and accused of
organizing a rebellion against the government.
They said he was planning to destroy power
lines, buildings, and public services. He was
sent to prison for life. Mandela was kept
in a cramped cell. He could receive only
one visitor and one letter every six months.
He had to dig in a lime pit or crush stones
into gravel all day long. He soon became
a leader among the prisoners. He protested
the
mistreatment of the men in jail and the
mistreatment of blacks in the country.
Mandela became a symbol of freedom. He
wanted the government to share power
between blacks and whites. Other nations
began to oppose the government. They
refused to do business with South Africa. The
leaders in his country realized that Mandela
had to be released from prison. When he was
freed, he received the Nobel Prize for Peace.
He was soon elected as the new president of
South Africa. Nelson Mandela has become a
symbol of liberty to the world.
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