History: CBSE Sample Question Paper - 1 | Sample Papers for Class 11 Humanities - Humanities/Arts PDF Download

Q.1. Multiple Choice Questions.
(i) What is meant by the term Shogun?
(a) In American history, the hereditary Commander-in Chief of the army.
(b) In Japanese history, the hereditary Commander-in Chief of the army.
(c) In Chinese history, the hereditary Commander-in Chief of the army.
(d) In French history, the hereditary Commander-in Chief of the army.

(ii) What defined the ‘identity ’ of the USA?
(a) The democratic spirit
(b) A nation of diversity
(c) A nation of tribes
(d) A nation of blacks

(iii) Which were the principal materials for mechanization that were available in plenty in England
(a) Coal and Steel
(b) Iron and Steel
(c) Coal and Iron
(d) Coal and Magnesium

(iv) How have the sedentary societies characterized nomads?
(a) Herdsmen
(b) Pastorals
(c) Mongols
(d) Primitive Barbarians

(v) Which of these factors was responsible for the 14th century crisis?
(a) Policy changes
(b) Environmental changes
(c) Growth of new ideas
(d) Both  (A) & (C)

(vi) What was the name of Charles Darwin’s book?
(a) On the origin of species
(b) The story of fossils
(c) Survival of the fittest
(d) The new species

(vii) The civilization of Mesopotamia is known:
(a) For prosperity and urban life
(b) For the rich and rich literature
(c) For mathematics and astronomy
(d) All of the above

(viii) Which of these is a source for the reconstruction of the history of the Mesopotamians
(a) Water resources
(b) Mathematical texts
(c) Archaeological remains
(d) None of these

(ix) Mesopotamia is widely known due to:
(a) Availability of sources including clay tablets in abundance
(b) Availability of records in English
(c) Records of Literature and Poetry
(d) All of above

(x) When did the Roman Empire become a Republic?
(a) 100 BCE
(b) 505 BCE
(c) 905 BCE
(d) 509 BCE

Q.2. Fill in the blanks.
(i) The Theory of Rome being a republican state was given by _________.
(ii) A Muslim writer ________, was regarded as a man of wisdom in the Italian world.
(iii) Fukuzawa Yukichi was born in an impoverished _______ family.
(iv) The King and Chiefs of Mesopotamia built _______ to offer their booty to the gods.
(v) The ‘Trail of Tears’ incident occur in ______.

Q.3. State whether true or false.
(i) Ethnography is the study of contemporary ethnic groups.
(ii) Cuneiform was the script of the Nigerians.
(iii) Dome of the Rock was built by Abd al-Malik.
(iv) Cotton weavers destroyed power looms as they found their jobs threatened by the new machines.
(v) The beginning of modern China can be traced from its encounter with the west in the 14th and the 15th centuries.

Q.4. What Mesopotamian tradition shares similarities with the story of the flood as mentioned in the Bible?

Q.5. What were the impacts on the economy and society in Europe resulting from long-term changes in population levels?

Q.6. How was the kingdom of Mari able to achieve exceptional prosperity despite its lack of military strength?

Q.7. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Q.8. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
‘Kathy my sister with the torn heart,
I don’t know how to thank you
For your Dreamtime stories of joy and grief
Written on paperbark.
You were one of the dark children
I wasn’t allowed to play with–
Riverbank campers, the wrong colour
(I couldn’t turn you white.)
So it was late I met you,
Late I began to know
They hadn’t told me the land I loved
Was taken out of your hands.’

(i) What did the natives refer to as "Dreamtime"?

(ii) Judith Wright, who was she?

(iii) When and how did conditions for Australian indigenous change?

Q.9. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
From  the  ninth  century,  there  were  frequent  localized  wars  in  Europe.  The  amateur  peasant soldiers  were  not  sufficient,  and  good  cavalry  was  needed.  This  led  to  the  growing  importance  of  a  new  section  of  people  –  the  knights. They were linked to the lords, just as the latter was linked to the king. The Lord gave the knight a piece of  land  (called  ‘fief ’)  and  promised  to  protect  it.  The  fief  could  be  inherited.  It  extended  to  anything  between  1,000 and 2,000 acres or more, including a house for the knight and his family, a church and other establishments to house his dependants, besides a watermill and a wine-press. As in the feudal manor,the land of the fief was cultivated by peasants. In exchange, the knight paid his lord a regular fee and promised to fight for him in war. To keep up their skills, knights spent time each day fencing and practicing tactics with dummies. A knight might serve  more  than  one  lord,  but  his  foremost  loyalty  was  to  his  own  lord.  In  France,  from  the  twelfth  century,  minstrels travelled from manor to manor, singing songs which told stories – partly historical, partly invented – about brave kings and knights. In an age when not too many people could read and manuscripts were few, these travelling bards were very popular. Many manors had a narrow balcony above the large hall where the people of the manor gathered for meals. This was the minstrels’ gallery, from where singers entertained nobles while they feasted.

(i) Who were the Knights? What were their responsibilities?

(ii) Who is the author of these lines?

(iii) Who is the person being referred to by the term "the Knight"?

Q.10.  What did you mean by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution? What were the results?

Q.11. What factors led to the emergence of Renaissance in Italy? How did it transform the daily lives of people during that time?

Q.12. Provide a succinct description of Genghis Khan's military structure.

Q.13. What were some distinguishing characteristics of the Late Roman Empire that differentiated it from the Early Roman Empire?

Q.14. Make the following marks on the provided map:
(a) Taiwan
(b) Australia
(c) Canberra
(d) Nagasaki