Students must start practicing the questions from CBSE Sample Papers for Class 11 History with Solutions Set 5 are designed as per the revised syllabus.
CBSE Sample Papers for Class 11 History Set 5 with Solutions
Time : 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 80
General Instructions:
- Question paper comprises five Sections — A, B, C, D, and E. There are 34 questions in the question paper. All questions are compulsory.
- Section A – Question 1 to 21 are MCQs of 1 mark each.
- Section B – Question no. 22 to 27 are Short Answer Tupe questions, carrying 3 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 60-80 words.
- section C – Question no 28 to 30 are Long Answer Type questions, carrying 8 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 300-350 words.
- Section D – Question no. 31 to 33 are Source-based questions with three sub-questions and are of 4 marks each.
- Section-E – Question no. 34 is Map-based, carrying 5 marks that includes the identification and location of significant test items, Attach the map with the answer book.
- 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 has to be attempted.
Section-A
Objective Type Questions.
Question 1.
How did the invention of Compass inspire the sailors’ [1]
(A) It made the journey eventful
(B) Inspired the sailors to sail in different directions because it helped them to locate the cardinal directions.
(C) It inspired them to study marine life
(D) Both (A) and (C)
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.
Explanation: Inspired the sailors to sail in different directions because it helped them to locate the cardinal directions.
Question 2.
The ………………………….. taught the art of writing to the human civilisation. [1]
(A) Mesopotamian
(B) Roman
(C) Italian
(D) Sumerian
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.
Explanation: The art of writing developed first in the Mesopotamia from which it transferred to other parts of the world.
Question 3.
Which of these was the oldest Mesopotamian town? [1]
(A) Ur
(B) Sumer
(C) Babylon
(D) Akkad
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.
Explanation: Ur was the oldest Mesopotamian town from which a lot of archaeological artifacts were discovered.
Question 4.
Which of these scientific discoveries made long journeys across oceans possible? [1]
(A) Telescope
(B) Astronomical compass
(C) Mathematical Tables
(D) The art of mapping
Answer:
Option (D) is correct
Explanation: The art of mapping is the scientific discovery that made long journeys across oceans possible.
Question 5.
Fill in the blank.
……………………… was an important item of trade for Roman Empire. [1]
(A) Olive oil
(B) Mustard
(C) Gold
(D) Silk
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.
Explanation: Olive oil was one of the important items of trade in the Roman Empire.
Question 6.
What was the Solidus? [1]
(A) A Silver Coin
(B) A Gold Coin
(C) A Bronze Coin
(D) None of these
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.
Explanation: Chinese developed barriers to protect their subjects from the nomadic raids which caused severe destruction to life and property.
Question 7.
Fill in the blank.
……………………….. Was dynasty ruled over South China. [1]
(A) Sung
(B) Hsi
(C) Wu
(D) All of the above
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.
Explanation: The Sung dynasty ruled over the territories of the South China for a significant time.
Question 8.
Which of these are the characteristic features of the Arawk civilization? [1]
(A) They were great mathematicians
(B) They practiced polygamy
(C) They were fond of science
(D) They were a ferocious tribe
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.
Explanation: The Arawak civilization was known for practicing polygamy.
Question 9.
Read statements about the people. [1]
(i) Many people in towns were free peasants or escaped serfs who provided unskilled labour.
(ii) Shopkeepers and merchants were very few in numbers.
(iii) Guards patrolled the town walls and musicians were called to play at feasts and in civic processions, and
innkeepers looked after travellers.
Choose the statement/s which is not correct:
(A) (ii) only
(B) (ii) and (iii)
(C) (i), (ii), and (iii)
(D) (i) and (ii) only
Answer:
(A) (ii) only
Question 10.
Who were Tupinambas? [1]
(A) The tribe who had plentiful diamond supplies
(B) The tribe that given to the king was strictly subjected to king’s orders
(C) The name given to the king’s army
(D) The tribe who lived on the east coast of South America.
Answer:
Option (D) is correct.
Explanation: The Tupinamba were a Tupi-speaking people who lived on the east coast of South America. They were one of the largest and most powerful indigenous groups in the region before the arrival of Europeans.
Question 11.
Which of this Italian city contributed to the growth of Renaissance? [1]
(A) Turin
(B) Lucca
(B) Venice
(D) None of the above
Answer:
Option (C) is correct.
Explanation: Renaissance expanded from the Italian city of Venice and spread to several nations of the Europe.
Question 12.
Which of these is a similar between the Aztecs and the Incas? [1]
(A) Both were food suppliers
(B) Both were magnificent builders
(C) Both were obedient towards the king
(D) All of the above
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.
Explanation: The Aztecs and Incas were both magnificent builders.
Question 13.
Yam is basically: [1]
(A) Cavalry system
(B) Courier system
(C) Administrative system
(D) None of these
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.
Explanation: Yam was the advanced courier system in the Mongol Empire.
Question 14.
Who were the early European/British settlers in Australia? [1]
(A) Convicts who had been deported from Africa
(B) Convicts who had been deported from England
(C) The Australian tribals
(D) All of these
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.
Explanation: The first settlers in the Europe was the convicts who were deported from England.
Question 15.
Who displaced the Arawaks from the Antilles? [1]
(A) Aztecs
(B) Cariebs
(C) Incas
(D) Tupinambas
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.
Explanation: The Caribs were a semi-nomadic people who migrated from South America to the Caribbean islands. The Arawaks were a peaceful people who had lived in the Caribbean islands for centuries before the arrival of the Caribs. The Caribs quickly conquered the Arawaks and enslaved many of them.
Question 16.
Workers who provided cheap labour in Australia were: [1]
(A) Chinese immigrants
(B) African slaves
(C) Australian Aborigines
(D) Indian labourers
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.
Explanation: The workers who provided cheap labour in Australia were the Chinese immigrants.
Question 17.
Indicate which of the following options is correct: [1]
(A) China is a small continental country that has the same climate throughout the year.
(B) Chinese food reflects its regional diversity with at least three distinct types.
(C) Japan lacks a tradition of animal rearing.
(D) In eastern China, only pulses are eaten.
Answer:
(C) Japan lacks a tradition of animal rearing.
Question 18.
Which natural resource of Brazil was exploited by the Portuguese? [1]
(A) Timber
(B) Forest
(C) Minerals
(D) All of the above
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.
Explanation: Timber was the natural resource of Brazil that was exploited by the Portuguese.
Question 19.
I was a Muslim physician, philosopher, and scientist. I wrote the book The Canon of Medicine that was the standard medical textbook in Europe for centuries. Identify me from the pictures. [1]
(A) Ibn Sina
(B) Ibn Battuta
(C) Al Rashid
(D) none of the above
Answer:
Option (A) is correct.
Explanation: Ibn Sina was a famous Muslim writer who was referred as a man of wisdom in the Italian world.
Question 20.
What was the name of the autobiography written by Olaudah Equiano? [1]
(A) The adventures of Olaudah Equiano
(B) The life of Olaudah Equiano
(C) The interesting narrative of the life of Laudah Equiano
(D) Olaudah Equiano-The slave.
Answer:
Option (C) is correct.
Explanation: The interesting narrative of the life of Laudah Equiano.
Question 21.
Who were the Daimyos? [1]
(A) Business heads
(B) Military lords
(C) Powerful feudal lords
(D) Priests
Answer:
(C) Powerful feudal lords
Section-B
Short answer Type Questions.
Question 22.
Describe the differences between the Latin American cultures of the Aztecs and Incas and the European culture. [3]
OR
How did the Aztecs undertake reclamation to meet shortage of land? [3]
Answer:
All the main cultures of Latin America differed from European cultures in a number of ways. In Europe, private ownership of resources was with a few people but in Latin American cultures, the ownership rested with the community. In European
society much importance was accorded to gold and silver whereas the Incas and the Aztecs used it only for ceremonial purposes and it did not have any greed to acquire them.
OR
The Aztecs made artificial land by weaving huge sea mats and covering them with mud and plants. They constructed canals between those exceptionally fertile Lands on which they built the capital city of Tenochtitlan in 1325. Its palaces and pyramids rose dramatically out of the lake.
Question 23.
What do you know about Pizarro and the Incas? [3]
Answer:
Pizarro had heard about the Inca kingdom as land of gold and silver. He tried to reach it many times through the Pacific. He was promised the governorship of the Inca lands if he conquered it by the Spanish King. In 1532, Atahualpa secured the Inca throne after a civil war. Pizarro arrived on the scene and captured the king. He was offered a roomful of gold as ransom to release the king but Pizarro did not honour his promise. He had the king looted and his followers went on a looting spree.
This was followed by occupation of the country. Their cruelty provoked an uprising in 1534 that continued for two years during which thousands of Incas died in war or due to epidemics. In the next five years, the Spanish had located the vast silver mines
in Potosi (in upper Peru) and they used the native Incas to work as slaves.
Question 24.
Write a short note on the Mayan culture. [3]
Answer:
The Mayan culture of Mexico developed remarkably between the 11th and 14th centuries but by the 16th century, their power had declined. Corn cultivation was central to their culture and many religious ceremonies were centered on planting, growing, and harvesting of corn.
Efficient agricultural production generated surplus which helped the ruling classes, priests to invest in architecture. They
had developed a form of pictographic script that has only been partially deciphered. They also invested in the development of astronomy and developed a calendar. Their calendar had 18 months and 365 days. They knew mathematics and had a specific
symbol for zero.
Question 25.
State the arguments given in favour of slavery in South America. [3]
Answer:
The use of African slaves was an integral part of exploitative practices of European colonialists in South America e.g. between 1550s and 1880s over 3,60,000 African slaves were imported into Brazil. Among the arguments given in favour of slavery
were:
- Slavery existed in Africa prior to the entry of Europeans.
- Slaves formed the bulk of the labour force in states being formed in Africa from the 15th century.
- European traders were helped by Africans themselves to capture young men and women to be sold as slaves in return for crops from South America.
These arguments did not stand the test of time and justify the continuance of this inhuman practice and immense suffering of the African slaves at the hands of the colonialists.
Question 26.
Write an account of the journey of an African boy of seventeen captured and taken to razil as a slave. [3]
Answer:
With the support of the natives the Portuguese exploited timber, and after dearing forests undertook sugarcane plantations. Their inhuman treatment of the natives forced them to retreat into the interiors – the Portuguese then began to kidnap the natives to make them work on the plantations as slaves.
A 17-year-old boy was among those captured in West Africa by a local slave trader-handcuffed and chained, shipped to Brazil-endured weeks of inhuman treatment and unhygienic conditions on the ship, also starved.
In Brazil, the slave was put to hard work. At one time, he was engaged in mining while sometimes he was asked to cut trees. He was forced to work and live like animals. He could not even try to flee to escape from this horrible condition. He tried once but was caught and beaten brutally and subjected to rigorous punishment. At last, he was rescued by a Jesuit priest.
Question 27.
How did the ‘discovery’ of South America lead to the development of European colonialism? [3]
OR
Explain the meaning of Industrial Revolution. [3]
Answer:
The ‘discovery’ of South America had significant consequences not only for the initial voyagers but others as well. The influx of gold and silver helped further expansion of international trade and industrialisation. Between 1560 and 1600, a hundred ships each year carried silver from South American mines to Spain. But it was not Spain and Portugal that benefited. They did not invest their huge income to further trade or in building up a navy.
Instead, the countries bordering the Atlantic, particularly England, France, Belgium, and Holland that took advantage of the discoveries. Their merchants formed joint stock companies and sent out trading expeditions, established colonies, and introduced Europeans to the products of the new world, including tobacco and spices, cocoa, and rubber. Europe also became familiar with the new crops from America like potatoes, sweet potatoes, and chilies. These were taken by the Europeans to other countries like India.
The influx of gold and silver helped in industrialisation. With the expansion in production more and more raw material was required, it could be obtained easily from places under their political control. This ultimately led to colonialism. The colonies served as a cheap source of raw materials and ready markets for finished goods e.g. India and Latin America. Thus, European colonialism developed in the 17th and 18th centuries. For the natives, the immediate consequences were the physical decimation of local populations, the destruction of their way of life and their enslavement in mines and plantations.
OR
The transformation of industry and economy in Britain between the 1780s and 1850s is referred to as the Industrial Revolution. The scientific and technological changes during this period brought about a number of changes in the sources of production. Domestic system of production was replaced by the factory system. Industrial units which manufactured goods on a large scale, were set up at many places. Soon England transformed from an agrarian country into an industrial country. Gradually these changes occurred in other European countries, USA and Japan which taken together are known as the Industrial Revolution.
Section-C
Long Answer Type Questions.
Question 28.
Describe in detail the effects of Industrial Revolution on Britain. (any four points) [8]
OR
Briefly discuss the inventions that revolutionized the Coal and Iron industries. [8]
Answer:
The industrial Revolution deeply affected all aspects of public life in England. It transformed Britain an agriculture-dominated country into an industrial country.
Following were the major effects of the Industrial Revolution:
- It made England one of the largest industrial nations. She established her trade relations with other countries and with increased exports her national income increased.
- The machines invented during this period could not be installed at home so innumerable factories were set up in the country. Consequently, cottage industries almost ended.
- The Industrial Revolution contributed to the establishment of large towns such as Manchester, Lancashire, Birmingham.
- Invention of machines resulted in the sufficient production of goods. As these were cheaper, more and more people began to buy them.
- One of the worst effects was the elimination of the home industries. As a single machine could do the work of many people, people who rendered manual labour were left unemployed.
- The Industrial Revolution forced small farmers to sell their land and work in the factories. Thus, the number of landless labour increased.
OR
England had large coal and iron reserves but until 18th century there was scarcity of usable iron, and coal mining too was riddled with many dangers. Various inventions revolutionized the iron and coal industries:
- For centuries, iron was drawn from the ore by a process of smelting by charcoal. But this had many problems as Charcoal was too fragile to be transported over long distances and its impurities produced poor quality iron. Further, it was in short supply as major forests had been cleared for timber. The Darbys of Shropshire brought the solutions to these problems. Grandfather Darby invented blast furnace that used coke instead of charcoal. This enabled generation of high temperatures for smelting. The second Darby developed wrought iron which was less brittle than pig iron.
- Henry Cort designed the puddling furnace in which molten iron could be rid of impurities and the rolling mill which used steam power to roll purified iron into bars.
- These processes revolutionised the iron industry for now it became easier to produce a wide range of iron products. Also, iron made a more durable product than wood for everyday items and for machinery. In 1770s the first iron chairs, vats for breweries and distilleries were made and cast iron was used for water pipes.
- In 1779 the third Darby built the first iron bridge of the world spanning the River Severn, in Coal Brook Dale.
- Sir Humphry Davy invented the ‘safety lamp’ which miners could take with them for light without the danger of coal gas catching fire.
Question 29.
What do you understand by the Protest Movement? [8]
OR
What do you know about Luddism? Explain.
Answer:
The condition of the factory workers had become very miserable during the initial years of the Industrial Revolution. They had to work hard for 14-16 hours daily in the dark and dingy factories. It affected their physical and mental health badly. The wages they received for their hard work were very meager. Therefore, political process against the harsh working conditions in factories was gaining strength in England continuously.
The workers wanted to be given the right to vote and to achieve their objective. The government was not ready to accede to their demand. So, they took to repression and started following hard repressive politics. The pace of the protest movements started gaining momentum with the increasing numerical strength of workers in the factories and urban areas. They started expressing their anger and frustrations in various forms of protest.
The Protest Movement grew strong, particularly in 1790s. It was during this period that there were bread or food riots throughout the country. The Protest Movement became stronger in the following years till the government agreed for parliamentary reforms.
OR
The movement known as Luddism (1811-17) was led by General Ned L.udd. Iuddism was not merely a backward-looking assault on the machines. Its participants demanded a minimum wage, control over the labour of women and children, work for those who had lost their jobs because of machines and the right to form trade unions so that they could legally represent their demands.
During the early years of industrialisation, the working population possessed neither the vote nor legal methods to express their anger at the drastic manner in which their lives had been overturned. In August 1819 around 80,000 people had gathered
peacefully at St. Peters Fields in Manchester to claim democratic rights of political organisation, public meetings, and freedom of the press. They were brutally suppressed in what came to be known as the Peterloo massacre and the rights they demanded were denied by the Six Acts, passed by Parliament the same year.
These extended the restrictions on political activity introduced in the two Combination Acts of 1795. But there were some
gains. After Peterloo, the need to make House of Commons more representative was recognised by liberal political groups, and the Combination Acts were repealed in 1824-25.
Question 30.
Do you agree that Industrial Revolution with its demand for new raw materials and markets have made nations more dependent on each other? [8]
OR
Discuss the different images that Europeans and Native Americans had of each other and the different ways in which they saw nature. [8]
Answer:
Yes, we do agree that the demand for new raw materials and markets have made nations more dependent on each other. A country cannot produce all kinds of raw materials needed for its factories, so it has to import the raw materials not available within from other countries.
This inevitable exchange of raw materials has also extended to finished goods and have made the nations interdependent and interrelated. For example, Indian jute mills depend on Bangladesh for supply of raw jute.
Similarly, as factories produce goods on a large scale which cannot be wholly consumed within their own country they search for markets abroad in order to benefit from the large-scale production. e.g. England procured raw cotton from India for its industries and made India a market for her finished cotton textiles.
OR
The native Americans were illiterate, had no organised religion, and were not urbanised. So, they were labelled uncivilized by the Europeans. French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau admired the natives because they were untouched by the corruptions of the civilisations.
He called them the ‘noble savages’, though he hadn’t met any. Wordsworth described them as people living close to nature who had limited powers of imagination and emotion. Washington Irving had described them as taciturn and mimics who used to entertain themselves at the expense of the whites. Even the US President Thomas Jefferson called them uncivilised.
On the other hand, the natives distrusted the goodwill of the Europeans. The Hopis thought that the Europeans had forgotten the sacredness of all things and because of which all human beings on earth would suffer. The natives saw the Europeans as greedy, they slaughtered the beavers indiscriminately for furs.
As regards nature, the natives looked at forests and identified tracks invisible to the Europeans while the Europeans imagined the forests cut down and replaced by corn fields. Jefferson’s dream was a country populated by Europeans with small farms. The natives, on the other hand, grew crops only for their needs and not for sale or profit. They thought it was wrong to own the land.
Section-D
Source-based Questions.
Question 31.
Read the below passage and answer the following questions.
‘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.’
1. Who was Judith Wright? [1]
2. What was called ‘Dreamtime’ in the native tradition? [2]
3. When and how did things change for the natives of Australia? [1]
Answer:
1. Judith Wright was an Australian writer and a champion of the rights of Australian ‘aborigines’.
2. In the native traditions the natives did not come to Australia had always been there. The past centuries were called the dream time’, something difficult for the Europeans to understand.
3. Things began changing for the natives from the 1970s. From 1974 Australia adopted a policy of ‘multi-culturalism’ whereby the ‘non-white’ policy was eliminated. Henceforth equal respect was given to native cultures.
Question 32.
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.
1. Who wrote the excerpt? [1]
2. How does he view the native people? [1]
3. How Natives and Europeans viewed each other? [2]
Answer:
1. This excerpt is written by writer Washington Irving, who had actually met the native people.
2. Irving views natives differently than the poet Wordsworth. He regards them as great mimics who entertain themselves excessively at the expense of the whites. The natives were impressed by the grandeur and dignity of whites.
3.
- Europeans: they considered the natives uncivilized and goods they exchanged with natives they regarded as commodities
- The Natives were puzzled and saddened by the greed of Europeans for native goods. They viewed their exchange with Europeans as ‘gifts’ given in friendship.
Question 33.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
‘The man of wealth and pride takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park’s extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth.’
1. What is being referred to? [1]
2. What was the enclosure movement? [2]
3. What was the name of the book? [1]
Answer:
1. The passage refers to the enclosure process. 1
2. Under the enclosure movement, big landowners began to enlarge their farms by appropriation of common lands as private property or changing the open field system to closed fields. This process began in the 14th century and became widespread in the 15th and 16th centuries. It was further strengthened by a number of Acts of Parliament in 1760-1820.
3. The name of the book was ‘The Deserted Village”.
Section-E
Map-based Questions.
Question 34.1.
On the given political map of the world locate & label the following: [2]
(a) China
(b) Japan
(c) Iraq
Answer:
Question 34.2.
On the same map write the countries name marked as A and ‘B: [3]
Answer: