History Of Human Rights Movements Set 6
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This set of History of Human Rights Movements Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on History Of Human Rights Movements Set 6
Q1 | The South African activist and former president …………….helped bringan end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights.
- f. w. de klerk
- nelson mandela
- martin luther king, jr
- edmund burke
Q2 | A member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1940s, ……………. was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistanceagainst the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa.
- nelson mandela
- f. w. de klerk
- martin luther king, jr
- edmund burke
Q3 | ………….. became the first black president of South Africa in 1994.
- f. w. de klerk
- nelson mandela
- martin luther king, jr
- edmund burke
Q4 | ..................was born on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa- speaking Thimbu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo.
- nelson mandela
- f. w. de klerk
- martin luther king, jr
- olivia ball
Q5 | ...................mother, Nosekeni Fanny, was the third of Mphakanyiswa’s fourwives, who together bore him nine daughters and four sons.
- nelson mandela’s
- f. w. de klerk’s
- martin luther king, jr
- olivia ball’s
Q6 | .................. went on to attend the Clarkebury Boarding Institute andHealdton, a Methodist secondary school, where he excelled in boxing and track as well as academics.
- f. w. de klerk
- nelson mandela
- martin luther king, jr
- olivia ball
Q7 | In 1939 ...............entered the elite University of Fort Hare, the onlyWestern-style higher learning institute for South African blacks at the time.
- nelson mandela
- f. w. de klerk
- abraham lincoln
- paul gready
Q8 | In 1940 .............and several other students, including his friend andfuture business partner Oliver Tambo were sent home for participating in a boycott against university policies.
- nelson mandela
- f. w. de klerk
- abraham lincoln
- paul gready
Q9 | 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.
- f. w. de klerk
- nelson mandela
- abraham lincoln
- paul gready
Q10 | ..............studied law at the University of Witwatersrand, where he becameinvolved in the movement against racial discrimination and forged key relationships with black and white activists.
- f. w. de klerk
- nelson mandela
- abraham lincoln
- karel vasak
Q11 | ............... spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the brutal RobbenIsland 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.
- abraham lincoln
- f. w. de klerk
- nelson mandela
- karel vasak
Q12 | While in confinement Mandela earned a bachelor of law degree from theUniversity of .............. and served as a mentor to his fellow prisoners, encouraging them to seek better treatment through nonviolent resistance.
- london
- new delhi
- amritsar
- allahabad
Q13 | .............. drafted his autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom,”
- nelson mandela
- f. w. de klerk
- abraham lincoln
- mrs. dadabhoy
Q14 | In 1980 ............ introduced a “Free Nelson Mandela” campaign that madethe jailed leader a household name and fuelled the growing international outcry against South Africa’s racist regime.
- oliver tambo
- f. w. de klerk
- abraham lincoln
- mrs. ambujammal
Q15 | In ............. Mandela was moved to Polls moor Prison on the mainland.
- 1962
- 1972
- 1982
- 1992
Q16 | In 1983, newly elected president ............. lifted the ban on the ANC andcalled for a nonracist South Africa, breaking with the conservatives in his party.
- robert e. lee
- abraham lincoln
- f. w. de klerk
- ulysses s. grant
Q17 | On February 11, 1990, ................ ordered Mandela’s release.
- f. w. de klerk
- abraham lincoln
- winfield scott
- mandela
Q18 | ..................was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa, withde Klerk serving as his first deputy.
- mandela
- abraham lincoln
- robert e. lee
- ulysses s. grant
Q19 | As president, ........... established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights and political violations committed by bothsupporters and opponents of apartheid between 1960 and 1994.
- mandela
- abraham lincoln
- winfield scott
- thabo mbeki
Q20 | In 1996 ................. presided over the enactment of a new South Africanconstitution, which established a strong central government based on majority rule and prohibited discrimination against minorities, including whites.
- abraham lincoln
- thabo mbeki
- makgatho
- mandela
Q21 | Improving race relations, discouraging blacks from retaliating against thewhite minority and building a new international image of a united South Africa were central to President ......... agenda.
- mandela’s
- oliver tambo’s
- abraham lincoln’s
- winfield scott’s
Q22 | In.............., the United Nations declared July 18 “Nelson MandelaInternational Day” in recognition of the South African leader’s contributions to democracy, freedom, peace and human rights around the world.
- 2001
- 2002
- 2004
- 2009
Q23 | Nelson Mandela was born July 18, 1918 in the royal lineage of the..............dynasty.
- thimbu
- ulanova
- romanov
- mughal
Q24 | ................ continued to study and practice the nonviolent resistance methods of Mahatma Gandhi until the ruling National Party began crushing all opposition.
- nelson mandela
- abraham lincoln
- robert e. lee
- ulysses s. grant
Q25 | A few years later .................. was sentenced to life imprisonment onRobben Island for his actions against the government.
- nelson mandela
- desmond tutu
- abraham lincoln
- winfield scott