PARADISE EDUCATION CENTRE

JOINT EXAM
HISTORY
FORM 4
Time; 3hours Date; 21/07/2021
Instructions
1. This paper consists of sections A, B and C with a total of nine (9) questions.
2. Answer all questions in sections A and B and three (3) questions from section C.
3. Cellular phones and any unauthorized materials are not allowed in the examination
room.
4. All drawings should be in pencil.
5. Write your Name on every page of your answer booklet(s).

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 SECTION A (20 Marks)
Answer all questions in this section.

1. For each of the items (i) - (xv), choose the correct answer from among the given
alternatives and write its letter beside the item number in the answer booklet provided.

i. The skull of earliest man discovered by………...

A. Dr Louis leakey.
B. Dr locy leaky
C. Dr Richard leakey.
D. Dr colin leakey.

ii. The earliest human skull discovered in……...

A. 1959
B. 1859
C. 1969
D. 1589

iii. The process of walking by using two limbs is called………

A. Bipedalism.
B. Biopedalism.
C. Biopedal
D. Bipedealism.

iv. ………………….. Is also termed as a true man or modern man.

A. Homo sapiens
B. Homo eractus.
C. Chimpanzee.
D. Monkey.

v. The theory of evolution of man developed by………...

A. Charles Darwin.
B. Dr Louis Leakey
C. Dr living stone
D. Dr H Stanley

vi. Man discovered fire during.

A. Old stone age
B. Middle stone age
C. Late stone age
D. Early stone age.

vii. Scholars whose work is to study remains are called:

A. Anthropologists
B. Archaeologists
C. Archivists

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viii. The old stone age is also known as:
A. a middle stone age
B. a period of ten years
C. an early stone age
D. the late stone age

ix. The first exploitative mode of production in Africa was:

A. Capitalism
B. Communalism
C. Feudalism
D. Slavery

x. Deals with past events of man and his environment

A. History
B. Historical sites.
C. Anthropology.
D. Archive’s

xi. The history which is passed on by word of mouth from one generation to
another is known as………...
A. Oral tradition.
B. Museum.
C. Archives.
D. Written records.

xii. A person who study archaeology.

A. Archaeologist.
B. Achaologist.
C. Archaologist.
D. Archaeologists.

xiii. ………………… includes letter, books, maps, magazines, newspapers, journal

and minutes of meeting and conferences.
A. Anthropology
B. Linguistics studies.
C. Written records.
D. Archaeology.

xiv. Which one of the following is not a source of history.

A. Museum.
B. Archives.
C. Written records.
D. Proverbs and idioms.

xv. The title given to the king of the Oyo Empire in west Africa was:
A. Alafin

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 B. Oba
C. Asantehane
D. Nzinga

2. Match the descriptions in List A with the corresponding answer in List B by writing the
letter of the correct response beside the item number in the answer booklet provided.
List A List B
i. 1487 A. Genocide in Rwanda.
ii. 1869 B. The policy of Socialism and Self Reliance was introduced in
iii. 1929 Tanzania
iv. 1967 C. Great Economic Crisis started
v. 1994 D. Suez Canal was opened
E. Bartholomew Diaz landed in South Africa
F. Britain annexed Cape Colony.
G. Kenya entered into the first multiparty election
H. Jan Van Riebeeck landed at the cape of South Africa
I. First World War came to an end.
J. Beginning of British rule in Zanzibar

SECTION B (35 MARKS)

3. Answer the following questions briefly;

i. Show the differences between Creation theory and Evolution theory.

ii. Show the differences between Trans-Saharan trade and Long distance trade.

iii. Show the differences between Triangular slave trade and Legitimate trade.

iv. Show the differences between Settler agriculture and Peasant agriculture.

v. Show the differences between Industrial capitalism and Imperialism.

vi. Show the differences between Explorers and Traders.

4. Arrange the following statements in chronological order by writing number 1 to 6 beside

the item number.
i. Furthermore, the trade increased in size when in the 1770s the French opened up
plantations of sugar in Mauritius and Reunion.
ii. However, the indigenous chiefs in the hinterland of East Africa participated fully
in the trade because it was their source of political and economic power.
iii. Slave trade was a trade which involved selling of human being like other
commodities.
iv. At the beginning Slave Trade was small in size because the slaves were taken to
work as domestic slaves.

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 v. The coming of Portuguese increased the demand for slaves because many people
were enslaved for the big plantations of coffee in Brazil.
vi. The coming of Seyyid Said to Zanzibar intensified the trade. The clove and coconut
economy in Zanzibar mainly depended on the Slave Trade.

5. Draw a sketch map of Africa to show colonial possessions in 1914 and use letters A, B, C,
D and E to locate
i. A country which resisted colonial rule successfully in 1896
ii. German East Africa
iii. A Portuguese colony of Angola
iv. A British colony which regained her independence in 1957
v. The biggest Belgian colony in African

SECTION C (45 Marks)

Answer three (3) questions from this section.

6. Explain six perquisites for state formation in pre-colonial Africa.

7. Describe five stages of evolution of man.

8. How were the East African colonies affected by the First World War? Give six points to
support your answer.

9. Examine the factors for nationalism in Africa after the Second World War.

PREPARED BY SIR JOHN EDWARD (BAED-HONS)

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