THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE

FORM TWO SECONDARY NATIONAL EXAMINATION, 2008

0012 HISTORY

TIME : 2 HOURS

SECTION A

1. For each of the following items choose the best answer from the given alternatives.

(i)The collection of public documents is called:

1. Museums
2. Archives
3. Archaeology
4. Oral traditions

(ii) The chronological order of events is usually shown in the following EXCEPT:

1. Time chart
2. Time line
3. Family tree
4. Carbon 14

(iii) The following are the stages in evolution of man:

1. Zinjanthropus, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens, Homo Habilis
2. Chimpanzee, Homo Erectus, Zinjanthropus
3. Chimpanzee, Zinjanthropus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens
4. Modern Apes, Homo Sapiens, Chimpanzee, Zinjanthropus

(iv)The basic needs which man constantly struggles to obtain are:

1. Water, food and clothes
2. Relationship, love and peace
3. Air, love and food
4. Food, shelter and clothes

(v) The following is one of the methods used to obtain gold in African societies:

1. Shaft and panning methods
2. Pottery and ornaments
3. Ornaments and shaft
4. Panning method and pottery

(vi)were the main participants in long distance trade in East Africa:

1. Yao, Nyamwezi and Kamba
2. Imbangala, Vimbundu and Arabs
3. Ngoni, Tuareg, Arabs and Mazrui
4. Yao, Barbaig, Arabs and Mandinka

(vii) Local trade among African societies became possible when:

1. One society became more powerful than others
2. Iron tools had increased
3. People produced less than their needs
4. People could produce more than their needs

(viii) One reason for the Dutch settlement at the Cape in 1652 was to:

1. Create Dutch empire in South Africa;
2. Defeat Asians and Europeans who monopolized the Indian Ocean;
3. Prepare a refreshment station for Dutch merchants from India;
4. Place South Africa in the World of Capitalism

(ix)The social factors for interaction among the people of Africa were: 

1. Migration, intermarriage and the need to search for new areas; 
2. Trade, war and migration;
3. Language, migration and population increase;
4. Trade, intermarriage, language and population increase.

(x)The earliest social organization from which each society has passed through is: 

1. Slavery
2. Socialism
3. Feudalism
4. Communalism