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KCSE CLUSTER TESTS 25

History and Government Paper 2

SECTION A (25 Marks)

(ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS)
1.

Give two limitations of using written records as a source of African History

2 marks

2.

State two ways in which the Agrarian Revolution contributed to the rural urban migration in Europe.

2 marks

3.

State one limitation of barter trade

1 marks

4.

State two advantages of the Macadamised roads.

2 marks

5.

Give one advantage of drumbeating over the use of smoke signals in Africa during the pre- colonial period

1 marks

6.

Give one disadvantage of using coal as a source of industrial energy.

1 marks

7.

State two functions of Cairo as an early urban centre.

2 marks

8.

Give one importance of the Odwira festival in the ancient kingdom of the Asante.

2 marks

9.

Identify one way in which Africans reacted to the European colonization in Africa.

1 marks

10.

Give two functions of chiefs in Zimbabwe during the colonial period.

2 marks

11.

. Identify two peaceful methods used by nationalists in South Africa in the struggle for independence.

2 marks

12.

. Identify the immediate course of the first world war.

2 marks

13.

State two economic results of the 2nd world war.

2 marks

14.

. Give the main reason for the failure of the league of nations.

2 marks

15.

State two achievements of Pan-Africanism between 1963-1965.

2 marks

16.

State any political challenges that faced Tanzania during the rule of president Nyerere

2 marks

17.

Name one international Governmental Organisation.

1 marks

SECTION B (45 Marks)

Choose any three questions
18.

a) Name ways in which man used tools during the old stone age.

b) Explain the importance of fire during the old stone age.

15 marks

19.

. a) Give three methods used to acquire slaves during the Trans Atlantic trade

( b) Explain six factors that led to the decline of the Trans Atlantic trade.

15 marks

20.

. a) Which factors facilitated the spread of Iron working in Africa?

b) Explain the consequences of Iron working in Africa.

15 marks

21.

. a) What problems face industrialization in South Africa?

b) Give the social effects of industrial revolution.

15 marks

SECTION C (30 Marks)

Choose any two questions
22.

. a) Why did the British use indirect rule in Northern Nigeria?

b) Explain five reasons for the failure of the policy of assimilation.

15 marks

23.

a) State five duties of the Kabaka among the Baganda.

b) Which factors led to the growth of a strong Buganda Kingdom?

15 marks

24.

a) What were the objectives of ECOWAS?

b) What are the challenges that ECOWAS has faced?

15 marks

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