SHIVALIK SCHOOLS

Annual Examination

CLASS- 11

HISTORY

SET - B

General Instructions:

(i) Question paper comprises five Sections – A, B, C, D and E. There are 34 questions in the question
paper. All questions are compulsory.

(ii)Section A – Question 1 to 21 are MCQs of 1 mark each.

(iii) Section B – Question no. 22 to 27 are Short Answer Type Questions, carrying 3 marks each. Answer
to each question should not exceed 60-80 words.

(iv) Section C - Question no 28 to 30 are Long Answer Type Questions, carrying 8 marks each. Answer to
each question should not exceed 300-350 words

(v) Section D – Question no.31 to 33 are Source based questions with three sub questions and are of 4
marks each

(vi) Section-E - Question no. 34 is Map based, carrying 5 marks that includes the identification and
location of significant test items. Attach the map with the answer book.

(vi) There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, an internal choice has been provided in
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, wherever
necessary.

SECTION - A

Multiple choice questions - (21x1=21)

Question 1.
Japan could modernise rapidly because
(a) She had sufficient means and machines.
(b) There was repository of coal and other natural resources.
(c) She could analyse the situation national and international the best way and
took right decisions.
(d) There were bullions stock in several mines.
Question 2.
Path of modernisation runs between
(a) The situations and the means
(b) Availability of men and machines
(c) Thought and their application
(d) Neither of them.

Question 3.
Chiang-Kai-Shek could not lead the NPP properly because
(a) He was aggressive
(b) He could not make his base strong,
(c) He was driven out at Taiwan
(d) He stressed on elimination of CCP.

Question 4.
Taiwan was
(a) An independent state
(b) Japan’s colony
(c) Semi- autonomous state
(d) provience

Question 5.
Examination System was withdrawn by China because
(a) It was not regulated properly.
(b) It was corrupted.
(c) It was based on classical Chinese learning.
(d) The civil and military officials so recruited were found unsuitable.

Question 6.
Population of native people in America met to sharp decrease because
(a) They were deported to reservations
(b) They were not given rights of citizen
(c) They were made slaves
(d) They had to suffer inclement weather in so-called reservations and the
atrocities exercised upon them by Europeans.

Question 7.
Revolution in America came different way than that of England.
(a) Estates were established here
(b) People organised in grids and sold the artefact
(c) Infrastructural development and manufacture of agricultural tools
(d) They snatched lands from natives and expelled them.

Question 8.
A number of native people became citizen of USA but on condition that
(a) They shall be given citizenship right
(b) They shall be treated at par with Europeans
(c) Their traditions shall not be interfered with and reservation shall be
sustained
(d) They shall be provided with administrative jobs.

Question 9.
Natives were puzzled by the fact that the European traders sometimes gave
them a lot of things in exchange for their goods, sometimes very little because
(a) They thought they are cheated
(b) They had no sense of market and fluctuation in demand and supply
(c) Europeans were clever people
(d) Prices were fluctuating every year.

Question 10.
Gold mish ended with
(a) Several wars between natives and Europeans
(b) Construction of railway lines, recruitment of Chinese workers
(c) Several problems to nature people.
(d) Mere mirage of finding gold mines in California.

Question 11.
Columbus could explore the New world because
(a) He had got training from a college
(b) He was employed in a ship-making workshop
(c) He was brought up at the shore and from a poor family
(d) He properly used compass and other devices invented till then.

Question 12.
Corrtes could destroy Aztecs empire because
(a) He was an expert Army Commander.
(b) He bagged help from the Totonacs.
(c) He was supported by artillery.
(d) He was shrewd, manipulator and fraudulent.
Question 13.
Brazil was discovered by
(a) Columbus
(b) Pedro Alvares Cabral
(c) Vasco-da-gama
(d) Cortes

Question 14.
The Portuguese would have thought of importing slaves from Africa because
(a) Slaves were openly sold in Africa
(b) Sugar mills were being estabilished in Brazil
(c) Local natives had abandoned their homes and hearth
(d) Slaves could further be exported to Portugal.

Question 15.
Cathedrals were
(a) Church
(b) Abbeys
(c) Monasteries
(d) Benedictine monasteries.

Question 16.
Factors affecting society and economy are
(a) Gradual and dramatic
(b) rapid and permanent
(c) infrastructural and inner
(d) moderate and slow.

Question 17.
New agricultural technology was consisting of
(a) reclamation of land
(b) use of heavy iron tipped ploughs
(c) shoulder harness of bullock
(d) all of them.

Question 18.
Change in land use pattern was seen with form of
(a) Two field system
(b) Three field system.
(c) Jhoom system
(d) Transhumance system.

Question 19.
Free peasants were
(a) peasant-cum-soldier
(b) tenants of the Lord.
(c) payer of labour-rent in Begar
(d) denied of political rights.

Question 20.
Monasteries were established
(a) in the middle of towns
(b) away from town and in forest
(c) far away from human inhabitation
(d) in vicinity of Churches.

Question 21.
Construction of Cathedral town attributed to
(a) Higher yield in agricultural production
(b) Promotion of trade and industry
(c) Business promotion drive under the shade of religion
(d) The contribution and subscription by craftsmen, artisans, merchants and
common people.

SECTION- B

Short answer type questions – (6x3=18)

Question 22.
Which of the following were necessary conditions and which the causes of early urbanization, and which
would you say were the outcome of the growth of cities:
(a) highly productive agriculture
(b) water transport
(c) the lack of metal and stone
(c) the division of labor
(e) the use of seals
(f) the military power of kings that made labor compulsory?

Question 23.
Why would the early temple have been much like a house?

Question 24.
If you had lived in the Roman Empire, where would you rather have lived—in the towns or in the
countryside? Explain why?

Question 25.
Imagine that you are a Roman housewife preparing a shopping list for household requirements. What
would be on the list?

Question 26.
Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

Question 27.
How do later Mongol reflections on the Yasa bring out the uneasy relationship they had with the memory
of Genghis Khan?

SECTION- C

Long answer type questions – (8x3=24)

Question 28.
What was the function of medieval monasteries?

Questions 29.
Compare details of Italian architecture of this period with Islamic architecture.

Question 30.
Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.

SECTION-D

Source Based Questions - (3x4=12)

31.
Karl Marx (1818-83), the great German philosopher, described the American frontier as “the last
positive capitalist utopia…the limitless nature and space to which the limitless thirst for profit
adapts itself.”

—‘Bastiat and Carey’, Grundrisse

Questions:
(i) Who was Karl Marx? (1)
(ii) What made him popular?(1)
(iii) What was his opinion about the American frontier?(2)

32.

In India, early stone seals were stamped. In Mesopotamia until the end of the first millennium
BCE, cylindrical stone seals, pierced down the center, were fitted with a stick and rolled over
wet clay so that a continuous picture was created. They were carved by very skilled craftsmen,
and sometimes carry writing; the name of the owner, his god, his official position, etc. A seal
could be rolled on clay covering the string knot of a cloth package or the mouth of a pot, keeping
the contents safe. When rolled on a letter written on a clay tablet, it became a mark of
authenticity. So the seal was the mark of a city dweller’s role in public life.

Questions:
(i) Which type of material was used to make seals? (1)
(ii) What were the various types of seals? (1)
(iii) Who carved these seals? Write a few features of these seals (Mesopotamian seals). (2)

33.

Ghazan Khan’s Speech:

Ghazan Khan (1295-1304) was the first Il-Khanid ruler to convert to Islam. He gave the
following speech to the Mongol-Turkish nomad commanders, a speech that was probably drafted
by his Persian wazir Rashiduddin and included in the minister’s letters :

‘I am not on the side of the Persian peasantry. If there is a purpose in pillaging them all, there is
no one with more power to do this than I. Let us rob them together. But if you wish to be certain
of collecting grain and food for your tables in the future, I must be harsh with you. You must be
taught reason. If you insult the peasantry, take their oxen and seed and trample their crops into
the ground, what will you do in the future ? … The obedient peasantry must be distinguished
from the peasantry who are rebels.

Questions:
(i) Who drafted this speech? (1)
(ii) What do you know about Ghazan Khan?(1)
(iii) What was the tenure of Ghazan Khan?(1)
(iv) What did Ghazan Khan’s speech depict?(1)

SECTION- E

34. Map based questions – (1x5=5)

Locate the following on map-

1. Korea
2. Taiwan
3. Iraq
4. Italy
5. Mediterranean sea