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Butere District Mock-History Paper 1 Question Paper

Butere District Mock-History Paper 1

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2008

Name ……………………………………………………. Index No. ……………………….
School: ………………………………………………….
311/1
HISTORY & GOVERNMENT
Paper 1
July / August 2008
2 ½ Hours
BUTERE DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION - 2008
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
311/1
HISTORY & GOVERNMENT
Paper 1
July / August 2008
2 ½ Hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above
2. Answer all question in the booklet provided
This paper consists of 4 printed pages

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Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the printed pages are printed as indicated and no
questions are missing.
SECTION A (25 MARKS) ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
1. Name the pithecine whose fossils was excavated at Rusinga Island by Louis leakely (1 mk)
2. Give two duties of warriors among the Maasai during the pre-colonial period (2 mks)
3. Give one reason why the Portuguese attempted to introduce Christianity to the coastal people
failed between 1500-1700 AD (1 mk)
4 State two terms of the second Anglo – German agreement of 1890 (2 mks)
5 State two achievements of the Imperial British East Africa company in Kenya (2 mks)
6 Give one role of Mekatilili in the Agiriama resistance against the British Colonial rule ( 2 mks)
7 State one importance of the swynerrton plan of 1954 to Kenyan farmers ( 1 mk)
8 State two recommendation of the phelps- stokes commission of 1924 ( 2 mks)
9. Give two grievances that Asians in Kenya had against the colonial administration by 1923
(2 mks)
10 State two challenge facing the education sector today ( 2 mks)
11 Mention one constitutional amendments of 1991 ( 1 mks)
12 Identify one main evidence that shows democracy exists in Kenya ( 1 mk)
13 Identify two components of the national budget in Kenya ( 2mks)
14 Mention the core function of the armed forces in Kenya (1 mk)
15. State one circumstance which may lead the government to limit the right to own property by an
individual 1 mk
16 What does the right of Franchise provide for in the constitution of Kenya ( 1 mk)
17 Identify one duty of the sergeant – at – arms in Kenya’s parliament ( 1 mk)
SECTION B
ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION
18 a) Identify five common political features of the Kenyan societies during the pre- colonial period
(5 mks)
b) Describe the social organization of the Agikuyu during the pre- colonial period (10 mks)
19 a) State five reasons for the success of the of the Portuguese conquest of the East Coast of Africa
(5 mks)
b) Explain the negative impact of the Portuguese rule on the East Coast of Africa (10 mks)
20 a) Give five factors which made the Maasai to collaborate with the British (5 mks)
b) Explain five results of the Maasai collaboration with the British (10 mks)
21 a) State five roles Kenya African Union (KAU) played in promoting nationalism in Kenya between
1944 and 1953 (5 mks)
b) Describe five features of the independence constitution in Kenya (10 mks)
SECTION C
ANSWER ANY 2 QUESTIONS FROM THE SECTION
22 a) Identify three causes of conflicts in Kenya (3 mks)
b) Discuss six effects of conflicts in Kenya (12 mks)
23 a) State five constitutional provisions that can make a president to lose office in Kenya (5
mks)
b) Describe chronologically any five stages of law making in Kenya ( 10 mks)
24 a) (i) State three functions of the clerk of the national assembly ( 3 mks)
ii) Identify four functions of the permanent secretary in Kenya (4 mks)
b) Explain four political duties of a Kenyan citizen (8mks)
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