Nadine Gordimer Interview: Question and Answer Match

Some of you may be studying at our English school in Cape Town, and I'm sure you've become fascinated by the country's history.

Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and an Anti-Apartheid activist. Her political writing won her the 1991 Nobel Prize for literature. Here is a question and answer interview with her; can you match the questions to the answers? What else do you know about Apartheid?

Lesson by Caroline

Vocabulary

Fascinated - very interested.
Anti- - opposed to something or someone "I'm anti-smoking"
Literature - written work like books, novels, plays and poems.
Apartheid - a former social system in South Africa in which black people and people from other racial groups did not have the same political and economic rights as white people and were forced to live separately from white people.

Choose the correct answer for each question:

• 1. What is your earliest memory?
  
  Race and gender prejudice.
  Old age, although the signs are as natural and inevitable as those of the beginning of life.
  Nelson Mandela. The epitome of courage and intelligence.
  Photographs.
  Let me be forgotten.
  I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
  Turning round on my seat at a pantomime, my first time in a theatre, aged about three.
  
  
• 2. Which living person do you most admire, and why?
  
  Nelson Mandela. The epitome of courage and intelligence.
  Photographs.
  Turning round on my seat at a pantomime, my first time in a theatre, aged about three.
  Let me be forgotten.
  I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
  Race and gender prejudice.
  Old age, although the signs are as natural and inevitable as those of the beginning of life.
  
  
• 3. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
  
  I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
  Nelson Mandela. The epitome of courage and intelligence.
  Let me be forgotten.
  Old age, although the signs are as natural and inevitable as those of the beginning of life.
  Photographs.
  Race and gender prejudice.
  Turning round on my seat at a pantomime, my first time in a theatre, aged about three.
  
  
• 4. What is your most treasured possession?
  
  I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
  Photographs.
  Turning round on my seat at a pantomime, my first time in a theatre, aged about three.
  Let me be forgotten.
  Race and gender prejudice.
  Old age, although the signs are as natural and inevitable as those of the beginning of life.
  Nelson Mandela. The epitome of courage and intelligence.
  
  
• 5. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
  
  Photographs.
  Race and gender prejudice.
  Turning round on my seat at a pantomime, my first time in a theatre, aged about three.
  I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
  Old age, although the signs are as natural and inevitable as those of the beginning of life.
  Let me be forgotten.
  Nelson Mandela. The epitome of courage and intelligence.
  
  
• 6. When did you last cry, and why?
  
  Nelson Mandela. The epitome of courage and intelligence.
  Race and gender prejudice.
  Old age, although the signs are as natural and inevitable as those of the beginning of life.
  I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
  Let me be forgotten.
  Photographs.
  Turning round on my seat at a pantomime, my first time in a theatre, aged about three.
  
  
• 7. How would you like to be remembered?
  
  Old age, although the signs are as natural and inevitable as those of the beginning of life.
  Let me be forgotten.
  Turning round on my seat at a pantomime, my first time in a theatre, aged about three.
  Race and gender prejudice.
  I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
  Photographs.
  Nelson Mandela. The epitome of courage and intelligence.