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