Multiple choice: Apartheid
Teens in South Africa: Axel – between sea and school
Read the text about apartheid on the planet schule website carefully. Afterwards,
answer the questions. Tick the right answer or answers. Note: There can be more
than one correct answer!
http://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/reports-in-english-south-africa/inhalt/hintergrund/
apartheid.html
1.
What‘s the meaning of apartheid?
4.
r
It is a term that stands for the different r
r To kill the black population.
r To ensure the rights and privileges of It is a term for the racial segregation in South Africa.
r
r
It is a period in South African history.
ethnic groups in South Africa.
It is a term that describes a life in solitude.
2. How did the apartheid begin?
r
r
The black people were enslaved.
The black population was imprisoned by r
r
the whites.
The white population started to make war on the black people in South Africa.
The black population was forced to do only dirty work and they resettled into special areas.
3. How did Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu react?
r
They established the ANC Youth League, a youth organisation of the African National Congress (ANC).
r
r
They left South Africa.
r
They said that “Africa is the land of the black.“
What was the goal of the apartheid?
the white minority.
r
r
To provide cheap black labour.
To establish homelands - ghettos for the black population.
5.
What happened in Soweto 1976?
r Children were killed.
r People in Soweto tried to oppose against the white regime.
r
Students demonstrated peacefully against the replacement of English by Afrikaans as teaching language.
r
The white population opened a new homeland for the black people.
6. What happened to Nelson Mandela?
r
r
He toppled the white government.
He became the first black president of South Africa.
r He emigrated to Europe.
r He was imprisoned for more than 20 years.
They established an army of black people.
Teens in South Africa: Axel – between sea and school
© wdr Planet Schule 2010
Multiple choice: Apartheid
Teens in South Africa: Axel – between sea and school
Lehrerblatt – Lösungen
1.
What‘s the meaning of apartheid?
4.
r
It is a term that stands for the different r
r To kill the black population.
r To ensure the rights and privileges of It is a term for the racial segregation in South Africa.
r
r
ethnic groups in South Africa.
It is a period in South African history.
It is a term that describes a life in solitude.
2. How did the apartheid begin?
r
r
The black people were enslaved.
The black population was imprisoned by r
r
the whites.
The white population started to make war on the black people in South Africa.
The black population was forced to do only dirty work and they resettled into special areas.
3. How did Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu react?
r
They established the ANC Youth League, a youth organisation of the African National Congress (ANC).
r
r
They left South Africa.
r
They said that “Africa is the land of the black.“
What was the goal of the apartheid?
the white minority.
r
r
To provide cheap black labour.
To establish homelands - ghettos for the black population.
5.
What happened in Soweto 1976?
r Children were killed.
r People in Soweto tried to oppose against the white regime.
r
Students demonstrated peacefully against the replacement of English by Afrikaans as teaching language.
r
The white population opened a new homeland for the black people.
6. What happened to Nelson Mandela?
r
r
He toppled the white government.
He became the first black president of South Africa.
r He emigrated to Europe.
r He was imprisoned for more than 20 years.
They established an army of black people.
Teens in South Africa: Axel – between sea and school
© wdr Planet Schule 2010