Practice Paper
TERM II (2021 – 2022)
Class – XI
History (027)
Time: 2 hours Maximum Marks: 40
General Instructions:
i. This Question paper is divided into four Sections-Section A, B, C and D
ii. All questions are compulsory.
iii. Section-A: Question no. 1 to 4 are Short Answer type questions of 3 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 80 words.
iv. Section-B: Question no. 5 to 7 are Long Answer type questions, carrying 6 marks. Answer to this question should not exceed 150-200 words.
v. Section-C: Question no. 8 and 9 are Case Based questions, carrying 4 marks each with subparts.
vi. Section-D: Question no. 10 is map based, carrying 2 marks
vii. There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, the internal choice has been provided in a few questions. Only one of the choices in such questions have to be attempted.
viii. In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each section and question, whenever necessary.
SECTION – A
Short Answer Type Question
1. What were the main characteristics of Renaissance?
The meaning of Renaissance is rebirth. Renaissance resulted in coming out of nation- states out of darkness of medieval ages. Because of Renaissance, these nation-states saw the light of modern era. Men became rational and scientific in their approach. New ideas and style came into prominence.
The main characteristics of Renaissance are as follows:
• Cities of Italy emerged as the first centre of the Renaissance.
• Architecture and literature developed.
• A new style came into prominence.
• New towns came into existence.
• Humanism, free thinking and reasoning emerged.
• Men became rational and scientific in their approach.
OR
Do you think that the Renaissance started a new age?
Undoubtedly, it can be said that the Renaissance started a new age. The reasons are as follows:
• The Renaissance broke the feudal bonds and established nation-states.
• Before the Renaissance period, the church was the supreme authority. People had complete faith in the authority of the church. But in the Renaissance period, rational thinking and logical thought were dominant.
• It brought about new ideologies in art and literature. Art and literature began to prosper and reached at its glory. Intellectuals and philosophers attacked on the social norms of the society through their writings. Many painters showed the evils of society through their paintings.
2. What did the ‘Reservation/ frontier’ mean to the Americans?
The conquest and purchase of land by the Americans resulted in the extension of boundaries. The natives of America were compelled to move accordingly. The boundary where natives reached was known as ‘Reservation/Frontier’.
3. How did the Europeans justify the displacement of the natives?
The Europeans justified the displacement of the natives by saying that they (the natives) did know the judicious use of their land. They criticized them by calling them sluggish. They were unaware about their crafts skill to produce goods for the market. Natives were also criticized on the ground that they were not interested in learning English and wearing western dress. So they deserved to die out. Wild bisons were killed on a large scale to clear prairies for farmland
4. What was Luddism and what were its demands?
It was a movement led by General Ned Ludel, a prominent leader of factory workers. Its demands were
1. To get minimum wages fixed by the government,
2. Prevent child and women labour,
3. Give work to the people retrenched due to installation of machines,
4. Give the right to form trade unions.
SECTION – B
Long Answer Type Questions
5. Why was Britain the first country to experience the industrial revolution?
1. England, Wales, and Scotland were unified under a monarchy hence, a stable government.
2. Common laws, single currency, common taxation on entire land facilitated the capital formation and investment in the manufacturing sector.
3. Money was used as a medium of exchange and a large section of the people received their income in the form of wages and salaries, not in goods.
4. Demand for consumer goods increased because national savings got a boost.
5. Under the agricultural revolution, bigger landlords had bought up small farms and enclosed the common land of the village (i.e. pastures). Thus, large estates were made and opened their factories.
6. Towns were grown in area and population. These were- New castles, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield including London.
7. There were rivers used for navigation because all of them drained into the sea. There were 1,160 miles of navigable water. 8. There was a banking facility in each town.
There were 600 banks in provinces and 100 banks in London etc.
6. How did the achievements of renaissance scientists contribute to revolution in science?
Following facts reflect the different scientific aspects in the works of Italian artists:
• Andreas Vesalius (1514-64), a Belgian and a professor of medicine at the university of Padua was the first to dissect human body. This was the beginning of modern physiology. The artists went to the laboratories and studied skeletons there. They started working once they learnt the body structure of human beings.
• Fragments of art discovered from the ruins of Roman Empire, became helpful to the Italian artists as perfectly proportioned men and women were sculpted there. On the basis of this study, one of the sculptors Donatello made life like statues in 1416.
• Leonardo da Vinci was a painter and artist. He painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. His self-portrait is vibrant and catchy.
• Scientific taste in arts like sculptures naturally had to emerge life-like vibrancy in the artifacts.
OR
What was Counter Reformation Movement?
Counter Reformation Movement came into being as a result of the Reformation movement. Many defects had come into Catholicism but the Roman Catholic Church did not pay heed to it. That is why this movement was spreading rapidly. According to the Counter Reformation, the Catholic Church tried to reform itself of some of its objectionable practices. For example, now the Bishops were appointed on the basis of ability.
7. Japan’s transformation into a modem society can also be seen in the changes in everyday life. Comment.
Japan’s transformation into a modem society can also be seen as the changes in everyday life. Patriarchal system was in practice. The patriarchal household system comprised many generations living together under the control of the head of the house. More people became affluent. New ideas of the family spread. The new home (Homu as the Japanese say) was that of the nuclear family, where husband and wife lived as breadwinner and homemaker. This new concept of domesticity in turn generated demands for new types of domestic goods, new types of family entertainments, and new forms of housing. In the 1920’s, construction companies made cheap housing available for a down payment of200 yen and a monthly instalment of 12 yen for ten years. It was at that time when the salary of a bank employee (a person with higher education) was 40 yen per month.
OR
When was CCP founded? What was Russian influence in its formation? Discuss the role of Mao Zedong in it?
The CCP was founded in 1921 soon after the Russian Revolution. The Russian success exercised a powerful influence around the world and leaders such as Lenin and Trotsky went on to establish the Comintern or the Third International in March 1918. It was done to bring about a world government that would end exploitation. The Comintern and the Soviet Union supported Communist parties around the world. They worked within the traditional Marxist understanding that revolution would be brought about by the working class in cities. Its initial appeal across national boundaries was immense. It soon became a tool for Soviet interests and was dissolved in 1943. Mao Zedong (1893-1976), emerged as a major CCP leader. He took a different path by basing his revolutionary programme on the peasantry. His success made the CCP, a powerful political force that ultimately won against the Guomindang. Mao Zedong’s radical approach can be seen in Jiangxi, in the mountains, where they camped from 1928 to 1934, secure from Guomindang attacks. A strong Peasants Council (Soviet) was organised, united through confiscation and redistribution of land. Mao, unlike other leaders, stressed the need for an independent government and army. He was quite aware of women’s problems and supported the emergence of rural women’s associations. He also promulgated a new marriage law that forbade arranged marriage, stopped purchase or sale of marriage contracts and simplified divorce.
SECTION – C
Case Based Questions
8. Read the source given below and answer the question that follows.
‘Kathy my sister with the torn heart,
I don’t know how to thank you
For your Dreamtime stories of joy and grief
Written on paperbark.
You were one of the dark children I wasn’t allowed to play with
Riverbank campers, the wrong colour (I couldn’t turn you white.)
So it was late I met you,
Late I began to know
They hadn’t told me the land I loved
Was taken out of your hands.’
- ‘Two Dreamtimes’, written for Oodgeroo Noonuccal
8.1 What do you know about Judith Wright?
Judith Wright was an Australian writer, who championed for the rights of Australian aborigines. She also wrote many poems about the loss made by the white people and the natives apart.
8.2 How did the European settlers treat the natives?
The European settlers forced the natives to evacuate their lands and deprived them of their resources. Some of them were employed by European settlers in their farms under the conditions of work, which were very different from slavery.
8.3 How did things begin to change for the natives in Australia?
“Multiculturalism” was adopted as the official policy in Australia. Under this policy, equal respect was given to native cultures and to the different cultures of the immigrants from Europe and Asia.
9. Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901):
Born in an impoverished samurai family, he studied in Nagasaki and Osaka learning Dutch and Western sciences and, later, English. In I860, he went as a translator for the first Japanese embassy to the USA. This provided material for a book on the West, written not in the classical but in the spoken style that became extremely popular. He established a school that is today the Keio University. He was one of the core members of the Meirokusha, a society to promote Western learning.
In The Encouragement to Learning (Gakumon no susume, 1872-76) he was very critical of Japanese knowledge: ‘All that Japan has to be proud of is its scenery’. He advocated not just modem factories and institutions but the cultural essence of the West-the spirit of civilisation. With this spirit it would be possible to build a new citizen. His principle was: ‘Heaven did not create men above men, nor set men below men.’
9.1 What do you know about Fukuzawa Yukichi?
Fukuzawa was a leading Meiji intellectual. He was one of the leading members of the Meirokusha, a society to promote western learning.
9.2 What did he advocate?
He advocated the adoption of the spirit of western civilization. It would help Japan to build a new citizen. He also advocated that God has not created superior or inferior mrui. All are equal before Him.
9.3 Mention the name of the book in which he was critical of Japanese knowledge.
In ‘The Encouragement to Learning’ Fukuzawa Yukichi was critical of the Japanse language.
SECTION – D
Map Based Questions
10. a) On the given political outline map of Europe, locate and label ANY ONE of the following with appropriate symbol:
I Britain‘s one town which was a hub of market.
LONDON
OR
II Britain‘s one town which was a centre of financial market.
Florence
b) On the same outline map of Europe, a place related to the renaissance is marked as A.
Identify it and write its name on the line drawn near them.
