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Borabu Masaba District Mock-History Paper 2 Question Paper

Borabu Masaba District Mock-History Paper 2

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2012

311/2
HISTORY
PAPER 2
JULY/AUGUST - 2012
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS
BORABU-MASABA DISTRICTS JOINT EVALUATION TEST– 2012
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
311/2
HISTORY
PAPER 2
JULY/AUGUST - 2012
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
(a) This paper consists of three sections A, B and C.
(b) Answer all questions in section A, three questions from section B and two questions
from section C
This paper consists of 2 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated and that no
questions are missing.
SECTION A (25 MARKS)
Answer all questions in this section
1. State two advantages of written materials as a source of history. (2mks)
2 List two economic activities of early man during the stone age period. (2mks)
3. Why was the Trans-Atlantic Trade refered as the Triangular Trade? (1mk)
4. Give two economic effects of the development of iron technology in Africa in the
pre-colonial period. (2mks)
5. State two ways in which the railway transport promoted industrialization in Europe. (2mks)
6. Identify one social function of the ancient city of Athenes. (1mk)
7. Give one importance of the Odwira festival in ancient Kingdom of the Ashanti. (1mk)
8. Distinguish between a written and an unwritten constitution. (2mks)
9. State one way through which the European powers maintained peace among themselves
during the partition of Africa. (1mk)
10. Identify two terms of the treaty signed between Robert Coryndon and Lewanika of the
Lozi in 1898. (2mks)
11. State one method used by the Ghananians in articulating their guest for Nationalism. (1mk)
12. Give two ways in which president Mobutu Sese seko’s leadership undermined
Economic development in Democratic Republic of Congo. (2mks)
13. What was the main function of the Liberation committee of Organization of
African Unity? (1mk)
14. State the condition given to serbia by Austria which she rejected causing the out-break
of the First World War. (1mk)
15. Identify the main difference between membership into the House of Lords and the House
Of Commons in Britain. (1mk)
16. State two functions of the supreme court in the United States of America. (2mks)
17. Name the political party that was formed by merging Tanganyika African National
Union and Afro-Shiraz party in Tanzania. (1mk)
SECTION B (45 MARKS)
Answer Only Three questions from this section
18. (a) Identify three agricultural practices used in Britain before the Agrarian Revolution (3mks)
(b) Describe six changes that marked the Agrarian Revolution in Britain. (12mks)
19. (a) State five factors that contributed to the decline of the Trans-saharan Trade in
the 15th century AD. (5mks)
(b) Explain the social estects of the Trans-saharan Trade on the people of Western
Sudan. (12mks)
20. (a) Name three colonies of France in West Africa. (3mks)
(b) Explain six reasons why Samouri Toure resisted the French colonisation in
West Africa for a long time. (12mks)
21. (a) How was pan African congress of manchester 1945 different from the earlier
Congresses? (3mks)
(b) Explain six problems encountered by African nationalists in South Africa during
the struggle for majourity rule. (12mks)
SECTION C (30 MARKS)
Answer Only Two questions from this section.
22. (a) Identify three roles of the Native African Department during the Application of
Direct rule in Zimbabwe. (3mks)
(b) Describe six negative effects of the British application of Direct-rule in Zimbabwe(12mks)
23. (a) State three ways in which the versailles treaty of 1919 affected Germany. (3mks)
(b) Describe six political results of the second world war 1939 – 1945. (12mks)
24. (a) Name three major political parties in India. (3mks)
(b) Explain how the system of government of India works. (12mks)
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