Making History

Sample Summer Exam Paper/Questions

This sample exam paper is based on the first 8 chapters of Making History textbook
and Skills Book, and the associated Learning Outcomes.

It follows the structure and style of the Sample Business Studies and Science Papers
which are both Common level. These are available to see at
https://www.examinations.ie/?l=en&mc=ex&sc=jc

The sample questions try to test knowledge, understanding and skills.

In the full paper, there are too many questions for a 1-hour Summer exam. Even
though the questions are numbered, teachers can choose which questions to cut
and paste to create their own exam paper.

The questions in the Sample First Year Summer Exam Paper can also be combined
with questions in the Sample Christmas Exam Paper to create an entirely new
paper.

However, there should be a mixture of reasonably easy and more difficult questions.
There should also be a spread from How Historians and Archaeologists Find Out
about the Past (chapter 1) up to and including The Plantations of Ulster and the
Growth of Towns (chapter 8).

Teachers can also create their own marking scheme to suit their own classes.

Dermot Lucey
 Sample JC History Exam Paper
First Year Summer 2019
Answer All Questions.
1. Multiple Choice Questions
Select the answer in each of the following by inserting the correct letter in the answer
box.
(i) A source which is deliberately written or created (vii) In Early Christian Ireland, the abbot
to persuade people to support a cause or a person A. Was a missionary who went around the
is called country
B. Was the only person who met St Patrick
A. Reliable
C. Was in charge of a monastery
B. Useful
D. Was the person who wrote the ogham
C. Propaganda
D. Objective alphabet
(ii) Stratigraphy is a method used by archaeologists (viii) In Early Christian Ireland, one of the Irish
to missionaries who travelled to the Continent was
A. Find objects A. St Finian
B. Date objects B. St Ciarán
C. Preserve objects C. St Íta
D. Store objects D. St Columbanus
(iii) In Ancient Rome, most people (ix) In medieval times, the king gave towns
A. Lived to be 80 A. Paintings of himself
B. Were called Patricians B. Charters
C. Worked in mines C. Flagpoles
D. Were called Plebeians D. Flags with his crest
(iv) The modern calendar is based on the calendar (x) In medieval times, a guild
in Ancient Rome introduced by
A. Spartacus
B. Julius Caesar
C. Cicero
D. Mark Antony
(v) In Ancient Rome, the Circus Maximus was used
for
A. Gladiator fighting
B. Theatre
C. Executions
D. Chariot-racing

(vi) In Early Christian Ireland, manuscripts were

copied in a
A. Scriptorium
B. Nave
C. Beehive hut
D. Church

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 A. Was used by farmers to harvest crops
B. Controlled the business of trades and crafts
C. Was another name for a group of monks
D. Was another name for a group of nuns
2. Chronology
These sources pictured below represent the different historical periods which are listed in
the next page.
(i) Identify each of the sources and insert the name and numbers in the matching sources
boxes opposite the historical periods.
(ii) Put the historical periods in chronological order (1 to 6), with 1 being the oldest.

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 Historical period Matching source Chronological
order (1 to 6)
Medieval times/Middle Ages
The Reformation
Ancient Rome
Early Christian Ireland
Conquest and colonisation in the
Age of Exploration
The Renaissance

(iii) Each of the following boxes contain a list of historical events. If they are in correct
chronological order, the list of events should begin with the oldest and finish with the latest
(or most recent). Which of the following lists is in correct chronological order? Please tick
() next to the correct boxes (i–v).

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3. Sources
This scene is from the Middle Ages/medieval times, but it includes 5 objects which are not
from that time.
(i) Circle each of the 5 objects which are not from the Middle Ages.
(ii) Choose one of the objects you have circled and explain why you think this object is not
from the Middle Ages.
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(iii) What does this illustration tell you about the people pictured here?
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(iv) Explain one advantage (strength) and one disadvantage (weakness) of this illustration
as a source on medieval times.
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 (Source: https://www.ancient.eu/article/1301/trade-in-medieval-europe/)

(v) Archaeological artefacts (objects) and ruins can be destroyed or preserved.

Insert a tick () in the boxes opposite each of these features depending on whether you
think they are more likely to destroy or preserve artefacts and ruins.

Features Destroy Preserve

Wars
Building
Robbers
Tombs
Desert heat
Peat bogs
Volcanic ash
Storms
Tree roots

(vi) Select one of your choices above and explain how it destroys or preserves archaeological
evidence.
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 4. Technology and Historical Change – The Printing Press
Study the sources below and answer the questions that follow.

(Source: The National Print Museum, www.nationalprintmuseum.ie)

(i) Write down one fact and one opinion from Source 1.
One fact: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
One opinion: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
(ii) Based on Sources 1 and 2, in what century was Gutenberg’s invention? Explain your
answer.
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(iii) How does the graph in Source 2 support the statement in Source 1 that ‘Gutenberg’s
invention was a great success’? Explain your answer
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(iv) According to Source 1, why were books cheaper to buy? ………………………………………………
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(v) How could more people learn to read? ………………………………………………………………………….
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(vi) Which of the following books about science or medicine were printed during the
Renaissance? Please tick () the correct answer(s).
On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres
On the Origin of Species
On the Structure of the Human Body
The Principles of Geology

(vii) What information in Source 1 is explained by the graph in Source 3?

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(viii) How did the printing press contribute to the Reformation?
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5. Medieval Life and Death

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those carrying on their
various trades, those selling
different types of goods, and
those who hireThe
(Source: themselves
Past Today, 2002)
out as labourers. On the river
bank amidst the ships there
is wine for sale. On a daily
basis can be found fried or
boiled foods and dishes, fish
large and small, meat –
lower quality for the poor,
finer cuts for the wealthy –
game and fowl.
Source: William FitzStephen,
Description of London, about
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Modern street scene in York, England

Source: https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/articles/york-guide/

(i) Explore four aspects of life and death in medieval times using the information in the
above sources.
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(ii) Which of these sources are primary and which are secondary?
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Secondary: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
(iii) Which are more reliable, the primary or the secondary source(s)? Explain your answer.
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(iv) How do the sources show differences between life in towns and life in the countryside?
Explain your answer.
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6. Renaissance Art and Science
Renaissance Art

The Delivery of the Keys by Pietro Perugino, painted 1481–82, shows Christ giving the ‘keys to the kingdom of
heaven’ to St Peter.

(i) Circle and number three features of this painting which show it is a Renaissance painting.
(ii) Explain how each feature you have circled makes this a Renaissance painting.
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(iii) Select an artist you have studied and explain how his or her work illustrates the changes
in the arts brought about by the Renaissance.
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Source: Tower of Pisa: https://jimadamsauthordotcom.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/galileo-was-right/

(iv) Using information from the above pictures, consider the significance of developments in
Renaissance Science.
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7. Impact of Conquest and Colonisation
Use these sources and your own knowledge to write an account of conquest and
colonisation during the Portuguese and Spanish explorations under the headings below.

Alfred Cro
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1492’, publ ange: Biological an
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4 Distribution of slaves
in the New World,
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Population, religion and language in Brazil, 2018

1. How widespread was Portuguese and Spanish conquest in the Age of Exploration?
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2. How Portuguese and Spanish conquest impacted on native people:
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3. How Portuguese and Spanish colonisation influenced the land system and the slave trade:
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8. Luther and The Reformation
(i) Study the key words about the Catholic Church and the Protestant Reformation below.

Classify each of the key words by inserting them in the Venn diagram below, deciding which
relate to the Catholic Church, which relate to the Protestant Reformation, and which are
common to both.

Catholic Church Protestant

Reformation

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(ii) Select one of the following statements about the significance of the Reformation and
explain it.
A. Luther’s Reformation led to the division of Christianity
B. Religious wars broke out.
C. The Catholic Church reformed itself.
D. The Reformation spread to many countries.

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 9. Plantations and Identity
Study the sources below and answer the questions that follow.

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Plantations Maps of Moneymore and Bellaghy, Co Derry/Londonderry

Source: http://www.towermuseumlearning.co.uk/plantation-siege/plantation/

Northern Ireland in 2011 The Plantation of Ulster was unique among Irish
3 Religion 4
plantations in that it set out to attract colonists of all
Roman Catholic 738,033 40.8% classes from England, Scotland and Wales by
Protestant religions 752,555 41.6 generous offers of land. … The sum of the Plantation
Other religion 14,859 0.8 of Ulster was the introduction of a foreign
No religion and community, which spoke a different language,
Religion not stated 305,416 16.9 represented an alien (foreign, strange) culture and
National identity Respondents way of life, including a new type of land tenure
British 876,577 (ownership) and management. In addition, most of
Northern Irish 533,085 the newcomers were Protestant by religion, while
Irish 513,390 the native Irish were Catholic. … They often lived in
English, Scottish or Welsh 29,187 separate quarters. They identified their differences
Other 61,884 as religious and cultural as well as territorial.
Source: Wikipedia Source: John Darby, Conflict in Northern Ireland: A
Background Essay

(i) What evidence can you find in Sources 1 and 2 that these towns were planned?
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(ii) Explain the difference between the houses at X and other houses in the maps.
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(iii) In Sources 1 and 2, what evidence can you find to show that the planters defended
themselves?
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(iv) In Source 4, what was the ‘foreign community’?
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(v) In Source 4, what aspects of identity were important to both sides?
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(vi) Is Source 4 an objective viewpoint? Explain your answer.
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(vii) What information in Source 4 explains the differences in Source 3?
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(ix) What differences in Source 3 are not explained by information in Source 4?
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(x) Which of these sources are primary sources? Explain you answer.
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