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Rarieda District Mock - History Paper 2 Question Paper

Rarieda District Mock - History Paper 2

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2009

311/2
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
Paper 2
July/ August 2009
Time: 2 ½ Hours
RARIEDA DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOLS
JOINT EVALUATION TEST - 2009
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
311/2
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
Paper 2
July/ August 2009
Time: 2 ½ Hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
• This paper consists of THREE sections A, B and C.
• Answers ALL questions in section A, THREE questions from section B and TWO questions from
section C.
• Answers to ALL questions must be written in a separate answer booklet provided.
This paper consists of 3 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing
SECTION A (25MARKS)
Answer all the questions in this section.
1. State the main disadvantage of oral information as a source of Historical information. (1mk)
2. Identify two areas in Africa where the remains of Australopithecines have been discovered.
(2mks)
3. State the main way in which the diminishing of forests contributed to the development of
Neolithic culture. (1mk)
4. A part from tool making, identify two other early industries of man. (2mks)
5. Identify two materials which were used in the recording of messages before the invention of the papers. (2mks)
6. Give the main reason why the camel was referred to as the ‘ship’ of the desert. (1mk)
7. State two reasons why African slaves were preferred during Trans Atlantic slave trade. (2mks)
8. Identify the famous cultural event that was first held in the city of Athens in 1896. (1mk)
9. Give two practices that symbolized that the vassal chiefs of the Shona remained loyal to the king.
(2mks)
10. Apart from river Congo, name any other river that was declared free to all Europeans for navigation at the Berlin conference of 1884. (2mks)
11. Give one reason why some European powers used the scorched earth policy against Africans resistance in the 19th Century. (1mk)
12. State two functions of the Emirs in the British indirect administration of Northern Nigeria.
(2mks)
13. Identify the event that marked the end of the Second World War. (1mk)
14. Identify the frontier state in which many liberation groups in Mozambique set up their
headquarters by 1962. (1mk)
15. State the main reason why Tanzania took to the policy of nationalization in 1967. (1mk)
16. State two functions of the executive secretariat of the economic community of West African states. (2mks)
17. Identify the House of the congress that approves all presidential appointees to the cabinet in the United Sates of America. (1mk)
SECTION B (45 MARKS)
Answer any THREE questions from this section in the answer booklet provided.
18. a) What were the physical characteristics of Aegyptopithecus? (5mks)
b) Explain five factors that must have contributed to the development of upright posture of
the early man. (10mks)
19. a) Give three disadvantages of water transport. (3mks)
b) What were the social effects of Trans-Saharan trade on the people of Western Sudan?
(12mks)
20. a) Identify three sources of threat to Lewanika’s position before his collaboration with the British. (3mks)
b) Explain six ways in which the Buganda collaboration with the British reduced the
influence of Kabaka over the Buganda kingdom. (12mks)
21. a) Give three internal discontents that fuelled the course of nationalism in Ghana. (3mks)
b) Explain how the African National Congress (A.N.C) contributed to the attainment of
majority rule in South Africa. (12mks)
SECTION C (30 MARKS)
Answer any TWO questions from this section in the answer booklet provided.
22. a) Name any three countries with veto power in the United Nations organizations (U.N.O).
(3mks)
b) Explain six factors that contributed to the collapse of cold war. (12mks)
23. a) Give three principles that interested countries had to adopt to become members of the Non-Aligned movement. (3mks)
b) Explain the principles of the commonwealth organization? (12mks)
24. a) State three ways by which one can become a member of parliament in Britain. (3mks)
b) Explain the functions of the House of Lords in British parliament. (12mks)
END

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