History: CBSE Sample Question Paper - 2 | Sample Papers for Class 11 Humanities - Humanities/Arts PDF Download

Q.1. Multiple Choice Questions
(i) Which was the first known language of Mesopotamia?
(a) Urdu
(b) German
(c) Japanese
(d) Sumerian

(ii) Who were Plebeians?
(a) Plebeians were the common people of the Roman empire.
(b) Plebeians were the royal people of the Roman empire.
(c) Plebeians were the slaves of the Roman empire.
(d) Plebeians were the nomads of the Roman empire.

(iii) Name the world-famous paintings made by Leonardo da Vinci?
(a) The Last Supper
(b) The Pieta
(c) Mona Lisa
(d) Both (a) and (b)

(iv) Who used the term ‘Expel Asia’?
(a) Fukazawa Yokkaichi
(b) Fukuva Yukichi
(c) Fukazawa Lukichi
(d) Fukazawa Zukichi

(v) Copernicus asserted that the planets including the earth revolve around the Sun.
(a) The statement is False
(b) The statement is partially True
(c) The statement is True
(d) None of these

(vi) Which of these sources help us to know about early human history?
(a) Time Machine
(b) Cave paintings
(c) Stories from ancestors
(d) None of these

(vii) What form of government was established by the Meiji Constitution?
(a) Dictatorship
(b) Monarchy
(c) Communalism
(d) Parliamentary form of government

(viii) Which religion was promoted by the Byzantine?
(a) Christianity
(b) They did not promote any religion in particular.
(c) Hinduism
(d) Islam

(ix) What do you understand by “The Great Australian Silence”?
(a) A mourning ceremony
(b) The electrifying lecture given by the anthropologist W.E.H Stanner in 1968
(c) A battle between Australia and France
(d) Both (b) and (c)

(x) What term was used for the native people of Australia?
(a) Red Indian
(b) Aboriginal
(c) Indigenous people
(d) Aborigine

Q.2. Fill in the blanks.
(i) Australia is _________ populated.
(ii) _________ dynasty ruled over South China.
(iii) The prospect of _______ drove imperialist countries to establish colonies.
(iv) Ptolemy’s Almagest is about ___________.
(v) The ___________ could not leave the estate without the permission of their masters/lords.  
(vi) The earliest cities developed in Mesopotamia around _________.
(vii) The first Railway line connected the cities of ___________ and __________.

Q.3.  State whether true or false.
(i) Gilgamesh was the greatest epic of the Mesopotamians.
(ii) The Mesopotamians taught the art of writing to the human civilisation.
(iii) Spanish in South America overcome by the abundance of gold in the country.

Q.4. Why did Genghis Khan believe it was necessary to divide the Mongol tribes into new social and military groups?

Q.5. 'Britain was the first country to experience modern industrialisation,' says one historian. Investigate the factors that contributed to it.

Q.6. What is your understanding of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?

SECTION - C

Q.7.  Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
‘Each  of  the  great  houses  of  Rome  contained  within  itself  everything  which  a  medium-sized  city  could  hold,  a  hippodrome,  fora,  temples,  fountains  and  different  kinds  of  baths...  Many  of  the  Roman  households  received  an income of four thousand pounds of gold per year from their properties, not including grain, wine and other produce which, if sold, would have amounted to one-third of the income in gold. The income of the households in Rome of the second class was one thousand or fifteen hundred pounds of gold.’

(i) Give three characteristics of Late Roman aristocracy.

(ii) Why do you believe households received gold income?

(iii) Describe the late antiquity's social structure.

Q.8. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Apart from the Church, devout Christians had another kind of organisation. Some deeply religious people chose to live isolated lives, in contrast to clerics who lived amongst people in towns and villages. They lived in religious communities called abbeys or monasteries, often in places very far from human habitation. Two of the more well-known monasteries were those established by St Benedict in Italy in 529 and of Cluny in Burgundy in 910. Monks took vows to remain in the abbey for the rest of their lives and to spend their time in prayer, study and manual labour,  like  farming.  Unlike  priesthood,  this  life  was  open  to  both  men  and  women  –  men  became  monks  and  women nuns. Except in a few cases, all abbeys were single-sex communities, that is, there were separate abbeys for  men  and  women.  Like  priests,  monks  and  nuns  did  not  marry.  From  small  communities  of  10  or  20  men/women, monasteries grew to communities often of several hundred, with large buildings and landed estates, with attached  schools  or  colleges  and  hospitals. They contributed  to  the  development  of  the  arts.  Abbess  Hildegard  was a gifted musician and did much to develop the practice of community singing of prayers in church. From the thirteenth century, some groups of monks – called friars – chose not to be based in a monastery but to move from place to place, preaching to the people and living on charity.

(i) What examples does he give to back this up?

(ii) What was the identity of Abbes Hildegard?

(iii) Was he a supporter of the Three Orders?

Q.9.  Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
It  is  interesting  to  note  that  another  writer,  Washington  Irving,  much  younger  than  Wordsworth  and  who  had  actually  met  native  people,  described  them  quite  differently.  ‘The  Indians  I  have  had  an  opportunity  of  seeing  in  real  life  are  quite  different  from  those  described  in  poetry...  Taciturn  they  are,  it  is  true,  when  in  company  with white men, whose goodwill they distrust and whose language they do not understand; but the white man is  equally  taciturn  under  like  circumstances.  When  the  Indians  are  among  themselves,  they  are  great  mimics,  and  entertain  themselves  excessively  at  the  expense  of  the  whites...  who  have  supposed  them  impressed  with  profound respect for their grandeur and dignity... The white men (as I have witnessed) are prone to treat the poor Indians as little better than animals’.
(i) Natives and Europeans viewed each other differently. Explain

(ii) Who wrote the passage?

(iii) What is his perspective towards indigenous communities?

Q.10. Mongolia had portrayed Genghis Khan as an iconic figure capable of forging a national identity and leading the country into the future. Justify this claim with appropriate arguments.

Q.11. What are the benefits and drawbacks of using ethnographic accounts to reconstruct early man's life?

Q.12. What factors allowed Japan to avoid being colonized?

Q.13. Can the 14th century be considered as a period of European Renaissance? Explain.

Q.14. How can you identify the locations of A and B on an outline map of Asia, and also locate the Red Sea and Arabian Sea on the same map?