Practice Paper
TERM II (2021 – 2022)
Class – XI
History (027)
Time: 2 hours Maximum Marks: 40
General Instructions:
(i) Answer all the questions. Some questions have internal choice. Marks are indicated against each question.
(ii) Question number 1 to 25 are objective type carrying one marks each.
(iii) Question number 26 to 39 carrying 3 marks, answer should not exceed 100 words.
(iv) Question number 30 carrying 6 marks, answer should not exceed 350 words.
(v) Question number 31-33 carrying 4 marks is source based question.
(vi) Question number 34 is a map based question carrying 5 marks.
SECTION – A
1.Which of these Italian cities were Republics?
(a) Florence
(b) Venice
(c) both a and b
(d) none of these
2.The word humanities has been coined by whom?
(a) Cicero
(b) Plato
(c) Giotto
(d) Dante Alighieri
3. “The Deserted Village” is a book written by whom?
(a) Oliver Goldsmith
(b) Matthew Boulton
(c) James Watt
(d) James Brindley
4. Which of these books has been written by Charles Dickens?
(a) The hard times
(b) The hard work
(c) The industrial revolution
(d) The village by the sea
5. Luddism was a movement led by whom?
(a) Ted Ludd
(b) Ned Ludd
(c) St. Peter
(d) Saint Columbus
6. Louisiana was bought by the USA from which country?
(a) Russia
(b) England
(c) France
(d) Mexico
7. What is the meaning of Canberra?
(a) Praying area
(b) Wool Wheat Gold
(c) Seating area
(d) Meeting place
8.Japan was ruled by —– in the name of the emperors.
(a) Shogun
(b) Samiti
(c) Kings
(d) Honshu
9. Who was the first President of the Republic of China?
(a) Sun-Yat-Sen
(b) Mao Zedong
(c) Liang Qichao
(d) Deng Xiaoping
10. What is the meaning of the term ‘to Poland us’?
(a) to partition
(b) to break
(c) to build
(d) to travel to Poland
11. What is the literal meaning of the term Renaissance?
(a) Re-imagine
(b) revert
(c) slumber
(d) rebirth
12. Which of these was a motivating factor behind voyages and discoveries?
(a) The need to meet new people.
(b) to spread different religions only
(c) to visit new places
(d) the thirst to earn name and fame
13. Who was petrarch?
(a) a great poet and historian of France
(b) a great poet and historian of Italy
(c) a great poet and historian of Australia
(d) Philanthropist of France
14. Which of these Italian cities contributed to the growth of the Renaissance?
(a) Venice
(b) Taurine
(c) Luker
(d) Bari
15. What was the first form of industrial revolution in Britain?
(a) Manual part was used extensively
(b) Animal and manual labour was replaced by new machines and steam power
(c) Road, Rail and Canals were not used as a means of transport
(d) None of these
16. Which was the principal material for Mechanization that was available in plenty in England?
(a) Coal and magnesium
(b) coal and iron
(c) iron and steel
(d) coal and steel
17.Why were canals built in 18 century?
(a)To beautify the city
(b) to transport coal to the cities
(c) to use the excess money available
(d) all the above
18. Which of these not caused an industrial revolution in England?
(a)Political stability
(b) Need to invent new things
(c) Understand the working of Machines
(d) None of these
19. Who invented the water frame?
(a) James Watt
(b) Richard Arkwright
(c) Robert Fulton
(d) Samuel Morse
20. What do you understand by Meiji restoration?
(a) Restoration of power back to the public
(b) Restoration of part back to the army head
(c) Restoration of power back to the emperor
(d) Both a and c
21.Cherokees tribe belonged to which country?
(a) America
(b) France
(c) England
(d) India
22. The imperialist country Germany is located in which continent?
(a) Europe
(b) America
(c) Asia
(d) Australia
23. What is meant by the term Shogun?
(a) In Japanese history the hereditary commander-in-chief of the Army
(b) In Chinese history the hereditary commander-in-chief of the Army
(c) In French history the hereditary commander-in-chief of the Army
(d) In American history the hereditary commander-in-chief of the Army
24. What form of Government was established by meiji constitution?
(a)Monarchy
(b)Communalism
(c) Parliamentary form of Government
(d) Dictatorship
25.Who Used the term ‘Expel Asia”?
(a) Fukuzawa Zukichi
(b) Fukuzawa Yukichi
(c) Fukuzawa Lukichi
(d) Charles Yukichi
26.What are the four great needs of people, according to Dr Sun yat Sen?
27. Why did the Industrial Revolution occur in England?
28 Elaborate the various causes that led to the Renaissance in Italy?
29. Describe the early Encounters of the natives with the Europeans in the 17th century?
30.When and how did things improve for the natives of the USA and Canada? Discuss
OR
Industrial Revolution occurred as a mixed blessing. Examine and elucidate the statement?
31. In his novel Hard Times, Charles Dickens (1812-70), perhaps the most severe contemporary critic of the horrors of industrialisation for the poor, wrote a fictional account of an industrial town he aptly called Coketown. ‘It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a stare of melancholy madness.
(a) What is the other name used for the Industrial Town?
(b) Why is the town not of red bricks?
OR
What is the colour of the river and why?
32. ‘At sunset on the day before America [that is, before the Europeans reached there and gave the continent this name], diversity lay at every hand. People spoke in more than a hundred tongues. They lived by every possible combination of hunting, fishing, gathering, gardening, and farming open to them. The quality of soils and the effort required to open and tend them determined some of their choices of how to live. Cultural and social biases determined others. Surpluses of fish or grain or garden plants or meats helped create powerful, tiered societies here but not there. Some cultures had endured for millennia…’ – William Macleish, The Day before America.
(a) This passage is taken from which book and is written by whom?
(b) What economic activities did people perform?
OR
What are the factors that determine how people live?
33. The Japanese had borrowed their written script from the Chinese in the sixth century. However, since their language is very different from Chinese they developed two phonetic alphabets – hiragana and katakana. Hiragana is considered feminine because it was used by many women writers in the Heian period (such as Murasaki). It is written using a mixture of Chinese characters and phonetics so that the main part of the word is written with a character – for instance, in ‘going’, ‘go’ would be written with a character and the ‘ing’ in phonetics.
The existence of a phonetic syllabary meant that knowledge spread from the elites to the wider society relatively quickly. In the 1880s it was suggested that Japanese develop a completely phonetic script, or adopt a European language. Neither was done.
(a) From whom did the Japanese borrowवर their script?
(b) Name the two scripts used by the Japanese?
OR
Name the women authors who used these scripts?
34. On an Outline map of the world mark the following
a. China
b. Japan
c. Canberra
d. Mexico
e. Brazil
