History: CBSE Sample Question Paper - 3 | Sample Papers for Class 11 Humanities - Humanities/Arts PDF Download

Q.1. Multiple Choice Questions
(i) In total, Hammurabi code of conduct consists of:
(a) 282 codes
(b) 213 codes
(c) 167 codes
(d) 100 codes

(ii) Declaration of the Indian Rights was prepared by:
(a) European natives
(b) Canadian natives
(c) Australia natives
(d) US natives

(iii) Where are Altamira caves located?
(a) Britain
(b) Spain
(c) France
(d) Egyp

(iv) Printing was done in Japan with
(a) Iron bocks
(b) Coal
(c) Wooden blocks
(d) Copper blocks

(v) When did the excavation at Mesopotamia begin?
(a) 1840
(b) 1850
(c) 1871
(d) 1804

(vi) The creators of Das Capital are:
(a) Aristotle
(b) Carl Ais
(c) Getech
(d) Karl Marx

(vii) Which of these was initially used for smelting?
(a) Charcoal
(b) Dry leaves and twigs
(c) Wood
(d) Coal

(viii) The water frame was invented by:
(a) Richard Arkwright
(b) None of these
(c) John Kay
(d) Wilbur Wright

(ix) Canada came into existence
(a) By the beginning of the 19th century
(b) By the end of the 18th century
(c) By the end of the 17th century
(d) By the beginning of the 18th century

(x) Which language replaced the earliest language of Mesopotamian civilization?
(a) Sumerian
(b) Greek
(c) Latin
(d) Akkad

Q.2. Fill in the blanks.
(i) Agricultural produce and __________ from China were exchanged with the Steppe.
(ii) Japanese emperor was known as ___________.
(iii) The ___________was the Roman silver coin containing 4½ gm of pure silver.
(iv) _______ wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh.
(v) The Last Judgement is the painting of ___________.

Q.3. State whether true or false
(i) Mongols were a nomadic tribe of Central Asia.
(ii) Frankincense is a Latin name for an aromatic spice.
(iii) The famous Lazaret Caves are located in Australia
(iv) The wood of the Iraqi Date Palm and poplar was not good enough for carts, cart wheels or boats.
(v) Guilds were the basis of the economic organisations.

Q.4. How did the emperors rule and govern the vast Roman empire?

Q.5. Mesopotamia's greatest legacy to the world is its scholarly tradition of time reckoning and mathematics. Explain.

Q.6. What were Sun Yat Sen's three guiding principles? Explain.

Q.7. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
‘Late  antiquity ’  is  the  term  now  used  to  describe  the  final,  fascinating  period  in  the  evolution  and  break-up  of  the  Roman  Empire  and  refers  broadly  to  the  fourth  to  seventh  centuries.  The  fourth  century  itself  was  one  of  considerable ferment, both cultural and economic. At the cultural level, the period saw momentous developments in religious life, with the emperor Constantine deciding to make Christianity the official religion, and with the rise of Islam in the seventh century. But there were equally important changes in the structure of the state that began with the emperor Diocletian (284- 305), and it may be best to start with these.Overexpansion had led Diocletian to ‘cut back’ by abandoning territories with little strategic or economic value. Diocletian  also  fortified  the  frontiers,  reorganised  provincial  boundaries,  and  separated  civilian  from  military  functions,  granting  greater  autonomy  to  the  military  commanders  (duces),  who  now  became  a  more  powerful  group.Constantine consolidated some of these changes and added others of his own. His chief innovations were in the monetary sphere, where he introduced a new denomination, the solidus, a coin of 4½ gm of pure gold that would, in  fact,  outlast  the  Roman  Empire  itself.  Solidi  were  minted  on  a  very  large  scale  and  their  circulation  ran  into  millions.
(i) Mention Constantine's innovation.

(ii) What was the duration of Diocletian's regime?

(iii) What exactly is Late Antiquity?

Q.8. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
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 ’.
(i) What were his thoughts on the American frontier?

(ii) Karl Marx, who was he?

(iii) What led to his widespread popularity among the masses?

Q.9. Read the passage 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  pulses  –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...’
– Galen, On Good and Bad Diet.
(i) What were the divisions in ancient Roman society?

(ii) What is the meaning of the given passage?

(iii) What were the city dwellers' customs?

Q.10. Make a note of the major developments of the Meiji era.

Q.11. Describe the Mongols' social and political history.

Q.12. Mention some facts about Ur, one of the first cities to be excavated.

Q.13. What do you mean when you say "Renaissance"? Examine the role of the printing press in the Renaissance and the rapid spread of Italian humanist culture.

Q.14. Locate the following on the Australia map.
(i) Perth
(ii) Adelaide
(iii) Canberra
(iv) Melbourne