6 Q's about the Farewell to Nelson Mandela

The questions below are based on this video from The New York Times:

1. HOW did Nelson Mandela first come to the world’s attention?
2. WHAT was apartheid?
3. WHAT is the African National Congress?
4. WHAT did Mr. Mandela say in his courtroom speech when he was arrested in the 1960s, a speech this video calls “one of the most eloquent of his life”?
5. WHERE did he spend 18 years in prison?
6. WHAT was “one of the most momentous decisions of his life,” made without consulting his comrades in the African National Congress because he knew they would resist?
7. WHEN was he released from prison?
8. WHAT was South Africa like at the time he was freed?
9. WHO is F. W. de Klerk?
10. HOW does this video depict and describe Mr. Mandela’s political campaign and the elections of 1994?
11. HOW did he use rugby to win over white South Africans when he was president?
12. HOW, according to the video, did Mr. Mandela fall short as president?
13. HOW did Mr. Mandela spend his life after he left the presidency?
14. According to Bill Keller, for WHAT will he be remembered first and foremost?

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In his obituary, Mr. Keller writes:

The question most often asked about Mr. Mandela was how, after whites had systematically humiliated his people, tortured and murdered many of his friends, and cast him into prison for 27 years, he could be so evidently free of spite.

Read the first page of this obituary. WHY do you think Nelson Mandela was so able to “keep hatred in check” and be the leader he was?