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Busia District Mock - History Paper 2 Question Paper

Busia District Mock - History Paper 2

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2011

311/2
HISTORY & GOVERNMENT
PAPER 2
JULY/AUGUST 2011
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E.)
History & Government
Paper 2
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES:-
• This paper consists of three sections; A, B, & C
• Answer all questions in section A, three questions in section B and any two questions in section C.
• Answers to all questions must be written in the separate sheets provided.
This paper consists of 2 printed pages. Candidates should check to ascertain that both pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.
SECTION A. ( 25 MARKS)
Answer all questions
1. Identify two unwritten sources of information in History and Government. (2mks)
2. State two economic practices of homo sapiens (2mks)
3. Name the two rivers that were associated with early agriculture in Mesopotamia. (2mks)
4. State two advantages of the mobile phones as a means of communication. (2mks)
5 Give two uses of steam power in Europe during the 19th century. (2mks)
6 Identify the main reason for the decline of Meroe as an urban centre in the pre-colonial period.(1mk)
7. State two sources of the British constitution. (2mks)
8. State two characteristics of the human rights. (2mks)
9. Give two methods that were used by Europeans to acquire colonies in Africa during the
Period of Scramble (2mks)
11. State two privileges that were accorded to assimilated Africans in French West Africa. (2mks)
12. State two internal factors that enhanced African nationalism in South Africa After 1945. (2mks)
13. Give the main reason why the League of nations was formed in 1919. (1mk)
14. Identify two methods that the UN security Council may use to Maintain peace and
security in the world. (2mks)
15. Name one African head of state who attended the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester
City in 1945. (1mk)
SECTION B. ( 45 MARKS)
Answer any three questions in this section.
16. (a) State five factors that led to the Agrarian revolution in Britain. (5mks)
(b) Discuss five results of Agrarian Revolution in Britain ( 10mks)
17. (a) State five problems that were encountered by the Trans-Saharan traders. (5mks)
(b) Explain five effects of the Trans-Saharan trade on the African Continent. (10mks)
18. (a) State five factors that underme scientific inventions in the third world countries. (5mks)
(b) Explain five benefits of scientific inventions in the field of medicine. (10mk)
19. (a) Identify five political developments in Tanzania since independence. (5mks)
(b) Explain five results of the Arusha Declaration of 1967 in Tanzania.
SECTION C. ( 30 MARKS)
Answer any two questions in this section.
20. (a) State five factors that led to the growth of Buganda Kingdom. (5mks)
(b) Describe the political organization of the Asante kingdom during the pre-colonial
period. (10mks)
21. (a) Identify three results of U.S.A entry into the First World War. (3msk)
(b) Explain six long – term causes of the first world war (12mks)
21. (a) Name three member state in the UN that have veto power. (3mks)
(b) Discuss six achievements of the UN. (12mks)

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