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?
OR
Do you think that the Renaissance started a new age?
2. What did the ‘Reservation/ frontier’ mean to the Americans?
3. How did the Europeans justify the displacement of the natives?
4. What was Luddism and what were its demands?
SECTION – B
Long Answer Type Questions
5. Why was Britain the first country to experience the industrial revolution?
6. How did the achievements of renaissance scientists contribute to revolution in science?
OR
What was Counter Reformation Movement?
7. Japan’s transformation into a modem society can also be seen in the changes in everyday life. Comment.
OR
When was CCP founded? What was Russian influence in its formation? Discuss the role of Mao Zedong in it?
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?
8.2 How did the European settlers treat the natives?
8.3 How did things begin to change for the natives in Australia?
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?
9.2 What did he advocate?
9.3 Mention the name of the book in which he was critical of Japanese knowledge.
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.
OR
II Britain‘s one town which was a centre of financial market.
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.
