Class 10 English Chapter 1 Question Answers - First Flight

Q1: What was the occasion?
Ans: It was the occasion of installation of South Africa’s first democratic government.

Q2: Where did the ceremony take place?
Ans: The ceremony took place in the Union Buildings of Pretoria.

Q3: Why had world leaders come there?
Ans: The world leader had come there to pay their respect to the newly formed Government.

Q4: Who was Zenani?
Ans: Zenani was the daughter of Nelson Mandela.

Q5: Who was sworn in as the first Deputy President of South Africa?
Ans: Thabo Mbeki was sworn in as the first Deputy President of South Africa.

Q6: What was specific about that system?
Ans: The system was formed on the basis of one of the harshest,’ most inhumane societies the world has ever known.

Q7: When was that system eradicated?
Ans: The system was overturned in the last decade of the twentieth century.

Q8: How was the new system different?
Ans: The new system was different because that system recognised the rights and freedom of all people.

Q9: What did Mandela want as a student?
Ans: Mandela wanted freedom for himself as a student.

Q10: What did Mandela realise?
Ans: Mandela realised that there was no freedom in South Africa for anyone who looked like him.

Q11: What was Mandela not unmindful of?
Ans: Mandela was not unmindful of‘Apartheid’.

Q12: Why was the Mandela pained?
Ans: Mandela was pained as the people who laid their lives for this day could not be present to see.

Q13: What did he think about freedom?
Ans: He thought that freedom is indivisible.

Q14: Why did he join African National Congress?
Ans: He joined African National Congress to achieve freedom for all his people.

Q15: What are two enemies of a person?
Ans: Prejudice and narrow-mindedness are the two enemies of a person.

Q16: What does courage mean to Mandela?
Ans: Courage means to Mandela the triumph over fear.

Q17: What was the national anthem for the blacks?
Ans: The National anthem for the blacks were ‘Die stem’.

Q18: Who accompanied Mandela?
Ans: Mandela’s daughter Zenani accompanied him.

Q19: What must the people learn?
Ans: The people must learn to hate. If they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

Q20: Who was sworn in as second deputy President?
Ans: Mr de Klerk was sworn in as second deputy President in South Africa.