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Bomet District Mock-History Paper 2 Question Paper

Bomet District Mock-History Paper 2

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2008

311/2
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
PAPER 2
JULY / AUGUST 2008
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS.
BOMET DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education 2008
311/2
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
PAPER 2
JULY / AUGUST 2008
TIME 2 ½ HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES.
_ This paper consist of THREE sections; A, B and C.
_ Answer ALL questions in section A, THREE questions from section B and TWO questions
from section C.
_ Answers to all questions must be written in the answer booklet provided.
This paper consists of 4 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated and no
questions are missing.
SECTION A ( 25 MARKS)
Answer all questions in this section in this section in the separate answer sheets
Provided:
1. Name any two branches into which history is divided. (2mks)
2. Give two reasons why Africa is regarded as the cradle of mankind. (2mks)
3. Give one advantage of the enclosure system in Britain during the Agrarian Revolution.
(1mk)
4. State two uses of Copper in Africa during the precolonial period. (2mks)
5. What is the main advantage of telecommunications over the early forms of communication?
(1mk)
6. Name two commodities from West Africa during the Trans – Atlantic trade. (2mks)
7. Give one reason why the early urban centres in Africa were always situated along the river valleys. (1mk)
8. Give one function of the Lukiiko in the Buganda Kingdom during the 19th C. (1mk)
9. Give one humanitarian reason for the European scramble and partition of Africa. (1mk)
10. State two factors which made the British colonialists to use the direct rule policy in Southern Rhodesia (2mks)
11. Name the MAIN political party which brought South Africa to Independence. (1mk)
12. State two causes of the Maji Maji Rebellion in Southern Tanganyika. (2mks)
13. Name any two organs of the African Union (AU) (2mks)
14. Give one advantage of a written constitution (1mk)
15. List two political challenges which have been facing the African Nations since independence.
(2mks)
16. What was the MAIN cause of the Cold War in the World (1mk)
17. Give one function of the Electoral Commission of India (ECI) (1mk)
SECTION B ( 45 MARKS)
Answer any THREE questions in this section in the answer sheets provided
18. (a) Name any three methods of dating used by the archaeologists. (3mks)
(b) List the three sub-species of Homo sapiens. (3mks)
(c ) Describe any six ways of life of the Middle Stone Age man. (9mks)
19. (a) What is the difference between transport and communication? (2mks)
(b) State three advantages of animal transport. (3mks)
(c ) Explain five effects of the development of railway systems in the World. (10mks)
20. (a) Name any two early sources of industrial energy. (2mks)
(b) State three reasons for the low level of Science and technology in the third world.
(2mks)
(c ) Explain five factors which have facilitated industrialization in the Republic of South
Africa. (10mks)
21. (a) State three causes of the Chimurenga War of resistance in 1896 -97. (3mks)
(b) Explain six reasons why Samori Toure was able to keep of the French for along time.
(12mks)
SECTION C ( 30 MARKS)
Answer any Two Questions in this section.
22. (a) What was the ASSIMILATION Policy? (2mks)
(b) State three qualifications for one in Senegal to become a French citizen during the
French assimilation. (3mks)
(c) Describe five reasons for the failure of assimilation in West Africa. (10mks)
23. (a) State three causes of the Second World War (3mks)
(b) Name any two founder members of the Non-Aligned Movement. (2mks)
(c ) Explain five factors which have undermined the success of this movement since it
formation in 1947. (10mks)
24. (a) Name the two Chambers of the British bi-cameral parliament. (2mks)
(b) State three ways in which a person may become a member of parliament in Britain
(3mks)
(c ) Discuss five roles played by a British Monarch (10mks)

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