SARASWATI PARADISE INTERNATION PUBLIC SCHOOL, SHIMLA
Pre Board Examination, Session (2022-23)
Class – XI Section- __________ Subject – History Time – 3 Hrs
Name - ________________________ Date - ___________ Roll No. ________ MM – 80
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS :-
(I) Question paper comprises Five Sections - A, B, C, D and E. There are 37
questions in the question paper. All questions are compulsory.
(II) Section A - From 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 words.
(IV) Section D - Question no. 28 to 30 are long answer type questions, carrying 5
marks each.
(V) Section E Questions no. from 31 to 33 are case based questions with three sub
questions and are of 4 marks each
(VI) Section F Question No. 34 is map based, carrying 5 marks
(VII) 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 (1x21=21)
1. In the second world war, Japan sided with which country ? (1)
(a) USA (b) Allies (c) Germany (d) None of the above
2. Who was Sun Yat Sen ? (1)
(a) A great leader of Modern China
(b) Ruler of Taiwan
(c) Japanese Leader
(d) None of the above
3. Japan defeated China in ________ and Russia in _________ ? (1)
(a) 1914 and 1939
(b) 1939 and 1945
(c) 1894 and 1904
(d) None of the above
4. Who is the speaker of the following lines :
The water’s Murmur is the Voice of my father’s Father (1)
(a) Franklin Pierce - The president of USA in 1854
(b) George Wasington - The President of USA
(c) Mobutto - An African Slave
(d) Chief Seattle – A Native Leader
5. State True or False if statement is false then rewrite it ? (1)
(a) The obarigine ‘s’ ___ a general name given to number of different societies began to
arrive from new Guinea
(b) Native of North America used to live in colonies in the centre of the city
6. Which one of the following is Copernicu’s achievement ? (1)
(a) He invented the telescope (b) He discovered the law of Gravitation
( c)He Proved that the Earth Revolve round the sun (d) All the above
7. What was the main reason to Usher the Renaissance in Italy first of all ? (1)
(a) The decline and disintegration of Feudalism in Italy
(b) The capture of Constantinople by the turks
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above
8. Which one of the following was not a merit of Feudalism (1)
(a) Maintenance of peace and order (b) Improvement in Mobbery
(c) Improvement in administration (d) All of the above
9 The practice of Feudalism existed in the Roman Empire and during the age (1)
of the King:
(a) Petertheo Great (1682-1725) (b) Charlemagne (742-814) French King
(c) Louis XIV (1638 -1715) (d)William Shakespeares
10. How did the rise of Mongal power affect the political situation in India (1)
(a) Forced the sultans to pay special attention to words the north –west frontier
(b) Economic Burden on the people
(c) Militarism
(d) All of the above
11 During the reign of Al-ud- Din Khilji who carried fire raids between 1279 (1)
and 1307 A.D. ?
(a) Mongals (b) Changez Khan (c) Nasir – Ud- Din (d) Balban
12. Rule of three Great khans and continued Mongal Unity was from ___to __? (1)
(a) 1206 to 1227 (b) 1180 to 1190
(c) 1227 to 1260 (d) 1236 to 1242
13. Which of the following statement is not correct in the context of Mongals?. (1)
(a) Mongals were herder and hunter – gatherers
(b) They were not great warriors
(c) The lived in the steppe region of Middle Asia
(d) They were fierce tribe of Central Asia.
14. Who was Julius Caesar (1)
(a) He was cousin of famous politician Marius
(b) Great ruler of the Roman Empire
(c) He was also a writer of highest order
(d) All of the above
15. Oligarchy is a form of government where : (1)
(a) The highest authority is exercised by the people
(b) The highest authority is exercised by few nobles of the aristocratic class.
(c) The government of the people is headed by a president elected by the people of
their representatives
(d) The characters stand for certain sound and not particular objects.
16. Who was Justinian ? (1)
17. Match column A with Column B ? (1)
Column A Column B
a) Pyramids i. Founded Taoism
b) Sppinx ii. A Sharp Pen
c) Papyrus iii. Body of a lion and head of a man
d) Loa – Tze iv. Bark of a tree
e) Stylus v. Large Traingular structure
18. Which one of the following cities is associated with the ancient civilization (1)
of Mesopotamia ?
(a) Lagash (b) Ur (c) Babylon (d) All the above
[Link] did and on which cities USA drop two Atom Bombs (1)
(a) In 1939 on Peking and Shanghai in China
(b) In 1939 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan
(c) In 1945 A.D. on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan
(d) None of the above
[Link] were settlers ? Choose the right option? (1)
(a) Dutch in South Africa
(b) The British in Ireland
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above
21. Identify the picture (1)
Section –B
Short Answer Type Question (3x6=18)
22. Explain in brief account of North America and Australia. (3)
or
Discuss the reasons for the failure of Mao’s Great Leap forward.
23. Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they decline ? (3)
24. Write a short note on the counter Reformation (3)
25. Why did the Genghis Khan feel the need to fragment the Mongal tribes into (3)
new social and military groupings.
or
Explain the social conditions in ancient Greece and Rome
26. What is the contribution of the Romans in the field of Education. (3)
27. Why did knights become a distinct group and when they decline (3)
or
What steps were taken by the people of Mesopotamia to promote trade and commerce ?
Section – C
Long Answer type Questions (8x3=24)
28. Explain the important part of Meiji reform of the economy. (8)
Or
What ultimately led to the decline of the Roman Empire
29. What is feudalism ? Explain mainfeatures , merits and demerits of feudalism. (8)
Or
What led to the fall of the Roman Republic ?
30. What were the factors that led to the beginning of the modern age ? (8)
Or
What were the achievements of the Mesopotamians in the field of Writing, Literature,
Science and Education ?
Section – D
Source Based Questions
31. Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow :
Doctor Galen on how Roman Cities Treated the Countryside
The famine prevalent for many successive years in many provinces has clearly displayed
for men of any understanding the effect of malnutrition in generating illness. The city-
dwellers, as it was their custom to collect and store enough grain for the whole of the next
year immediately after the harvest, carried off all the wheat, barley, beans and lentils, and
left to the peasants various kinds of pulse- after taking quite a large proportion of these to
the city. After consuming what was left in the course of the winter, the country people had
to resort to unhealthy foods in the spring; they ate twigs and shoots of trees and bushes
and bulbs and roots of inedible plants..........
Questions
(i) What did the city dwellers do? (1)
(ii) What does the given passage depict? (1)
(iii) How was ancient Roman society divided? (2)
(32) Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow :
YASA
In 1221, after the conquest of Bukhara, Genghis Khan had assembled the rich Muslim
residents at the festival ground and had admonished them. He called them sinners and
warned them to compensate for their sins by parting with their hidden wealth. The episode
was dramatic enough to be painted and for a long time afterwards people still remembered
the incident. In the late sixteenth century, 'Abdullah Khan, a distant descendant of Jochi,
Genghis Khan's eldest son, went to the same festival ground in Bukhara. Unlike Genghis
Khan, however, 'Abdullah Khan went to perform his holiday prayers there. His chronicler,
Hafiz-i Tanish, reported this performance of Muslim piety by his master and included the
surprising comment: 'this was according to
the yasa of Genghis Khan'.
Questions
(i) What is the meaning of Yasa? (1)
(ii) After which conquest, Genghis Khan had assembled the rich Muslim residents (1)
at the festival ground?
(iii) What is the importance of Yasa? (2)
(33) Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow : .
The Warka Head
This woman's head was sculpted in white marble at Uruk before 3000 BCE. (white) and
bitumen (black) inlays, respectively. There is a groove along the The eyes and eyebrows
would probably have taken lapis lazuli (blue) and shell top of the head, perhaps for an
ornament. This is a world-famous piece of sculpture, admired for the delicate modelling of
the woman's mouth, chin and cheeks. And it was modelled in a hard stone that would have
been imported from a distance.
Questions
(i) Where was the woman's head sculpture discovered? What was it called ? How (1)
old was this?
(ii) What were its unique characteristics ? (1)
(iii) Why is it a world famous sculpture? Which qualities of this sculpture made (2)
him so famous?
Section – E
Map Based Question
On the map of western Europe mark and locate the following extent of feudalism :
(1x5=5)
(i) St. Denis (ii) Bingen (iii ) London (iv) Rome (v) Vienna