History: CBSE Sample Question Paper - 4 | Sample Papers for Class 11 Humanities - Humanities/Arts PDF Download

Q.1. Multiple Choice Questions
(i) The earliest cities developed in Mesopotamia around
(a) 5500 BCE
(b) 7000 BCE
(c) 5000 BCE
(d) 6000 BCE

(ii) Mongols and other central Asian nomads traded and bartered with:
(a) Nepal
(b) Korea
(c) Singapore
(d) China

(iii) Timur claimed descent from
(a) Ogodei
(b) Jochi
(c) Toluy
(d) Chaghatai

(iv) Who were the early European/British settlers in Australia?
(a) Convicts who had been deported from Africa
(b) Convicts who had been deported from England
(c) The Australian tribal
(d) All of the above

(v) Japan is also known as:
(a) Land of Five Rivers
(b) Land of Thousand Lakes
(c) Land of Rising Sun
(d) Land of Midnight Sun

(vi) What constituted the heart of the Roman Empire?
(a) Rhine
(b) Sahara Desert
(c) The Mediterranean Sea
(d) Agriculture

(vii) The study of contemporary ethnic groups is known as
(a) Ethnography
(b) Archaeology
(c) Anthropology
(d) Sociology

(viii) What is the meaning of Mesopotamia?
(a) Land between two poles
(b) None of these
(c) The land between two bridges
(d) The Land between two rivers

(ix) Fortification built by China is called:
(a) Fort of China
(b) Great wall of China
(c) Doors of Chin
(d) Wall of China

(x) Which of these scientific discoveries made long journeys across oceans possible?
(a) Mathematical Tables
(b) Astronomical compass
(c) Telescope
(d) The art of mapping

Q.2. Fill in the blanks.
(i) The Aborigine make up ________ percent of Australia’s population in 2005.
(ii) __________ were native tribes who live near California.
(iii) The temples of Mesopotamia were known as ________.
(iv) Most of the England was connected by the rails by __________.
(v) Expansion of ___________ was a cause of urbanisation in Mesopotamia.

Q.3.  State whether true or false.
(i) A course on social values was a compulsory course in Japan.
(ii) Feudalism continued under the Meiji’s rule
(iii) Cathedral were small churches built in France during the 12th century.
(iv)  ‘The Pieta’ by Michelangelo depicts Mary holding the body of Jesus.
(v) Protestant Reformation is the movement that began in the 15th century to reform the Christian religion.

Q.4. What steps were taken to prepare the clay tablets for writing?
Q.5. What impact did the Crusades have on Europe and Asia?

Q.6. Discuss the role of iron and foreign trade in the development of African civilization.

Q.7. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The traditional religious culture of the classical world, both Greek and Roman, had been a polytheist. That is, it involved a multiplicity of cults that included both Roman/Italian gods like Jupiter, Juno, Minerva and Mars, as well as numerous Greek and eastern deities worshipped in thousands of temples, shrines and sanctuaries throughout the empire. Polytheists had no common name or label to describe themselves. The other great religious tradition in the empire was Judaism. But Judaism was not a monolith either, and there was a great deal of diversity within the Jewish communities of late antiquity. Thus, the ‘Christianisation’ of the empire in the fourth and fifth centuries was a gradual and complex process. Polytheism did not disappear overnight, especially in the western provinces, where the Christian bishops waged a running battle against beliefs and practices they condemned more than the Christian laity did. The boundaries between religious communities were much more fluid in the fourth century than they would become thanks to the repeated efforts of religious leaders, the powerful bishops who now led the Church, to rein in their followers and enforce a more rigid set of beliefs and practices.
(i) List the names of the Roman gods who were worshipped across the empire.

(ii) What was the primary function of the Christian bishops?

(iii) Explain what Judaism means.

Q.8. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
‘In Benedictine monasteries, there was a manuscript with 73 chapters of rules which were followed by monks for many centuries. Here are some of the rules they had to follow:
Chapter 6: Permission to speak should rarely be granted to monks.
Chapter 7: Humility means obedience.
Chapter 33: No monk should own private property.
Chapter 47: Idleness is the enemy of the soul, so friars and sisters should be occupied at certain times in manual labour, and at fixed hours in sacred reading.
Chapter 48: The monastery should be laid out in such a way that all necessities be found within its bounds: water, mill, garden, workshops.
(i) What exactly does humility imply?

(ii) What is contained in Chapter 47?

(iii) What values does this chapter represent?

Q.9. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The Olduvai Gorge was first 'discovered' in the early twentieth century by a German butterfly collector. However, Olduvai has come to be identified with Mary and Louis leakey, who worked here for over 40 years. It was mary Leakey who directed archaeological excavations at Olduvai and Laetoli and she made some of the most exciting discoveries. This is what Louis leakey wrote about one of their most remarkable finds: 'That morning I woke with a headache and a slight fever. Reluctantly, I agreed to spend the say in camp. With one of us out of commission, it was even more vital for the other to continue the work, for our precarious seven-week season was running out. So Mary departed for the diggings with Sally and Toots [two of their dogs] in the Land-Rover [a jeep-like vehicle], and I settled back to a restless day off. Some time later - perhaps I dozed of - I heard the Land-Rover coming up fast to camp. I had a momentary vision of Mary stung by one of our hundreds of resident scorpions or bitten by a snake that had slipped past the dogs. The Land-Rover rattled to a stop, and I heard Mary's voice calling over and over: "I ve got him! i've got him! I 've got him!' Still groggy from the headache, I couldn't make her out. "Got what? Are  you  hurt?"  I  asked.  "Him,  the  man!  Our  man,"  Mary  said.  "The  one  we've  been  looking  for  23  years.  Come  quick, i've found his teeth!"
(i) Give four distinctions between the genus and modern humans.

(ii) Who is associated with the discovery of the Olduvai Gorge?

(iii) What is the origin of the genus' name?

Q.10. What impact did the Renaissance/Humanism have on Christianity? Discuss with a focus on the Protestant Reformation.

Q.11. Mention some facts about Ur, one of the first cities to be excavated.

Q.12. Discuss the methods used by the Mongols to gain control of their vast empire.

Q.13. Did Japan's rapid industrialization policy result in wars with its neighbours and environmental destruction?

Q.14. On the given map, identify the parts (1), (2), (3), and (4).