HISTORY

FORM 4 PRE-Q
TERM 3 COMMON TEST 2023

TIME: 40 Minutes

TOTAL MARKS: 25

Name _________________________ Form________

Teacher________________________

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS
Write your name, Form and Teacher’s name in the spaces provided.

You should spend 40 minutes on this History Common Test.

Answer ALL questions from Section A, Section B and Section C.

The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

Write your answers in the spaces provided below.

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Section A: Knowledge and Chronology [10]
1. Choose whether the following statements are True or False. Place a ‘T’ or ‘F’ in the box next to each
of the statements. [5]

The League of Nations was flawed from its very beginning.

One reason why Japan invaded Manchuria was to control the resources there.

The Abyssinian Crisis showed the complete ineffectiveness of the League of Nations.

Appeasement was a policy designed to prevent another war.

The Nazi-Soviet Pact secretly carved up the Ukraine.

2. Place the following events in the correct order in the table below. Use their start date to determine
order. [5]

a. The French invasion of the Ruhr

b. The German annexation of the Sudetenland
c. The Hoare-Laval Pact
d. The Wall Street Crash
e. The Manchurian Crisis

Planning Space

Order (oldest to Letter

most recent)
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2
3
4
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Section B: Source Analysis [5]

The paper that the man is reading says, “Democracy’s fool’s paradise” and he is saying “oh well, anything
for a quiet life.” Cartoon by British cartoonist David Low, 3 November 1938. The figure in the deck chair
represents the British public

3. Look at Source A. How valuable is this source as evidence of how the British public viewed
Appeasement? [5]

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Section C: Step 4 Historical Writing [10]
4. Why did Hitler expand German territory in the 1930’s? [10]

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