Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Freedom

Question:

The question below contain two statements labeled as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Analyze each statement separately and use the codes given below to indicate your answer:

Assertion: Nelson Mandela's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" details his personal struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
Reason: Mandela spent 28 months in jail, often in solitary confinement, for his activism against the apartheid regime.

Options:

Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion.

The Assertion is incorrect but the Reason is correct.

The Assertion is correct but the Reason is incorrect.

Correct Answer:

The Assertion is correct but the Reason is incorrect.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4 - The Assertion is correct but the Reason is incorrect.

Mandela spent 28 Years in jail (not 28 months), often in solitary confinement, for his activism against the apartheid regime.

The autobiography of one of the greatest persons of the twentieth century, Nelson Mandela, is titled Long Walk to Freedom. In this book he talks about his personal struggle against the apartheid regime in South Africa, about the resistance of his people to the segregationist policies of the white regime, about the humiliations, hardships and police brutalities suffered by the black people of South Africa. These ranged from being bundled into townships and being denied easy movement about the country, to being denied a free choice of whom to marry. Collectively, such measures constituted a body of constraints imposed by the apartheid regime that discriminated between citizens based on their race. For Mandela and his colleagues it was the struggle against such unjust constraints, the struggle to remove the obstacles to the freedom of all the people of South Africa (not just the black or the coloured but also the white people), that was the Long Walk to Freedom. For this freedom, Mandela spent twenty-eight years of his life in jail, often in solitary confinement. For freedom Mandela paid a very high personal price.