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EnglishCBSE Class 10 · Board exam 2024, set 2/1/1 · 5 marks · Case-based

CBSE Class 10 English 2024: question 6(A)

Set in the CBSE Class 10 board exam of 2024, paper 2/1/1, section C, question 6(A), for 5 marks. Try it first; the hints and our step-by-step solution are below.

Q6(A) · 5 marks · Case-basedCompetency-basedNelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Read the following extract and answer the questions:

On the day of the inauguration, I was overwhelmed with a sense of history. In the first decade of the 20th century a few years after the bitter Anglo-Boer war and before my own birth, the white skinned people of South Africa patched up their differences and created a system of racial domination against the dark-skinned people of their own land. The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane societies the world has ever known. Now, in the last decade of the twentieth century, and my own eighth decade as a man, that system has been overturned forever and replaced by one that recognised the rights and freedoms of all peoples, regardless of the colour of their skin.

  1. (i)

    Explain the feelings of the narrator when he said; "I was overwhelmed with a sense of history."

    1 mark
  2. (ii)

    The system of racial domination has been replaced by a system that:

    1. (A)confirms the education of the Blacks.
    2. (B)recognises the rights and freedoms of all people.
    3. (C)recollects the bitter experiences.
    4. (D)focuses on the personality development.
    1 mark
  3. (iii)

    Comment on the kind of society apartheid had created?

    2 marks
  4. (iv)

    Which phrase would correctly substitute 'patched up' in the given sentence from the extract:

    "...the white skinned people of South Africa patched up their differences..."

    1 mark

Source: official question paper from cbse.gov.in (PDF). See it in the full 2024 board paper, set 2/1/1.

Hints

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Hint 1

Think about what the inauguration meant to Mandela.

Hint 2

Read the last sentence of the extract for the new system.

Hint 3

Find a word meaning 'resolved' or 'repaired'.

Step-by-step solution

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  1. (i) Mandela felt happy and deeply moved. He recalled the long history of racial oppression and was proud that apartheid had ended.

    1 mark

  2. (ii) Option B: the new system recognises the rights and freedoms of all people.

    1 mark

  3. (iii) Apartheid created a society of racial domination in which the dark-skinned people were oppressed in their own land. It was one of the harshest and most inhuman societies the world has known.

    2 marks

  4. (iv) 'Patched up' can be replaced by 'settled' or 'mended'.

    1 mark

Answer: (i) happy, overwhelmed by history; (ii) B; (iii) a harsh, inhuman society of racial domination; (iv) settled/mended

Where the marks are

  • Feeling stated (1 mark)
  • Option B (1 mark)
  • Racial domination and harsh, inhuman society (2 marks)
  • Suitable substitute for 'patched up' (1 mark)

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