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Machakos District Mock - History Paper 2 Question Paper

Machakos District Mock - History Paper 2

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2010

Name________________________________________________ Index No: _________________
311/2
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
JULY/AUGUST 2010
PAPER 2
2 ½ HOURS
FORM FOUR MID-YEAR CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT TEST
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
PAPER 2
2 ½ HOURS
INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATES
This paper consists of three sections A, B and C
Answer ALL the questions in section A,
THREE questions from B and TWO questions from section C
This paper consists of 3 printed pages
Please Turn Over
SECTION A (25 MARKS)
1. State two advantages of using electronics as a source of information in History and Government (2mks)
2. Identity the early form of writing developed in Egypt (1mk)
3. Name one hominid who made oldwan tools during the Old Stone Age (1mk)
4. Early Agriculture resulted to urbanization. Give one town which developed in Egypt due to early
Agriculture (1mk)
5. Identity two trade participants in the Trans-Atlantic trade (2mks)
6. Give two social factors which contributed to the European scramble and partition of Africa (2mks)
7. Identify any two additional improvements that have been made to the modern roads from the
macadamized roads. (2mks)
8. State two roles of locational heads (chief de canton) in the French colonial administration (2mks)
9. Give one source of unwritten constitution of Britain (1mk)
10. State the main reason why Ghana achieved independence earlier than any other African country (1mk)
11. State one reason why USA was reluctant to join the First World War in its early stages. (1mk)
12. Name one permanent member of the security council of United Nations organization (U.N.O) (1mk)
13. State one outstanding founder member of pan-Africanism (1mk)
14. Name one political challenge which has been facing the African Nations since independence (1mk)
15. State one condition that one must fulfill to become a senator in the United States of America (1mk)
16. Give two military organizations formed by the capitalists and communists power blocs during the cold war period (2mks)
17. Name the main political party which brought independence to South Africa (1mk)
18. Identify two functions of East African legislative Assembly (2mks)
SECTION B (45 MARKS)
Answer any three questions
19. (a) state three reasons which encouraged early Agriculture in Egypt (3mks)
(b) Explain six consequences of early Agriculture in Egypt (12mks)
20. (a) Name any two methods of dating used by the archaeologists (2mks)
(b) List the three sub-species of the Homo-sapiens (3mks)
(c) Describe any five ways of life of early man during the middle Stone Age (10mks)
21. (a) Give three officials who worked with Kabaka in Buganda (3mks)
(b) Explain six terms of Buganda Agreement of 1900 (12mks)
22. (a) State three factors that led to the growth of Johannesburg (3mks)
(b) Discuss Negative effects of urbanization in Africa (12mks)
SECTION C (30 MARKS)
Answer any two questions
23. (a) Give three reasons why British opted to use Direct rule in Zimbabwe (3mks)
(b) Describe three impacts of the British rule in Zimbabwe (12mks)
24. (a) State three reasons which enabled the Allied Powers to win the second world war (3mks)
(b) Discuss the consequences of the Second World War (12mks)
25. (a) State three objectives of COMESA (3mks)
(b) Explain six challenges facing COMESA (12mks).

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