SECTION A (20 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section.

1. For each of the items (i) (xv), choose the correct answer from among the given alternatives and write its letter beside the item number in the answer booklet provided.

(i) What are the major types of oral traditions? 

1. Museums and archives
2.  Poems and proverbs
3. Historical sites and narration of events
4.  Archaeology and museum
5.  Cultural practices and narration of events

(ii) Why is Charles Darwin famous in history?

1.  He discovered pebbles and chopping tools.
2.  He discovered the fossil of mans ancestors.
3.  He introduced the theory of creation.
4.  He discovered the remains of old people. 
5. He introduced the theory of evolution.

(iii) What was the most common method of farming in pre-colonial Africa?

1. Mixed farming 
2. Plantation agriculture 
3. Shifting cultivation
4. Slash and burn cultivation
5. Permanent crop cultivation

(iv) As a historian, which one would you consider as Prince Henrys main aims in organizing the Portuguese voyages to West and East African coasts?

1. Acquiring raw materials, markets and cheap labour
2.  Acquiring colonies, raw materials and markets
3.  Spreading Christianity, adventure, and trade
4.  Establishing processing industries, markets and raw materials
5.  Abolishing slave trade, slavery and introduction of legitimate trade

(v) What took place in Europe between 1750s and 1850s?

1. Industrial revolution
2. Scramble for Africa
3. Mercantile capitalism 
4. Emergency of slave trade
5. Monopoly capitalism

  (vi) Colonialism was established through 

1.  post-colonial political changes.
2. Violence and coercion
3. piracy and plundering.
4. Revolution and violence
5. waylaying and bogus treaties.

 (vii) Who headed the Central government of the colony? 

1. Queen    
2. Governor
3. Secretary for colonies
4. Secretary General
5. Minister for colonies

 (viii) The law that demanded the Africans to carry a labour card "Kipande" aimed at ensuring that

1.  the European colony is exploited effectively.
2.  there is effective occupation of the colony.
3.  the Africans should be allowed to grow cash crops.
4.  the welfare of the Africans were taken care of.
5. the white farmers got a cheap supply of labour.

 (ix) Why the British in East Africa provided colonial health services to few areas such as settler plantation areas, military camps and cash crop producing areas?

1.  To make their subjects support the colonial rule.
2.  To keep their subjects wealthier and resistant to diseases.
3.  To make their subjects fit for economic production.
4.  To make their subjects loyal to the colonial state.
5.  To stop their subjects from using traditional medicines.

  (x) Which of the following were the long-term causes of the First World War?

1. The formation of military alliances among the great powers of Europe.
2. The need for revenge among the European powers.
3. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Serbia.
4. The rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism in Germany.

1. I and II
2. II and III
3. IV and I
4. III and IV
5. I and III

(xi) Which of the following were the countries which used constitutional means to gain their political independence?

1. Mozambique and Nigeria
2. Kenya and Tanganyika
3. Ghana and Uganda
4. Uganda and Tanganyika

1. I and II
2. II and III
3. IV and I
4. III and IV
5. I and III

(xii) What challenged the work of the police in 1998 in East Africa?

1.  Terrorist bombing attacks
2.  Idi Amins government take over from Milton Obote
3.  Launching over the New East African Community
4.  Inciting genocide in Rwanda
5. Adoption of the universal Declaration of Human Rights

(xiii)   The social challenges facing people in Africa include 

1. political instability and tribalism.
2.  tribalism and neo-colonialism.
3.  colonialism and illiteracy.
4.  illiteracy and diseases.
5.  corruption and lack of rule of law.

(xiv) Which organ of the United Nations investigates situations that pose threat to international peace?

1. The Executive Secretariat
2. The General Assembly
3. The Trusteeship Council
4. The Security Council
5. The Red Cross

(xv) The international organization undermined by Hitler was called

1. United Nations Organization. 
2. League of Nations.
3. Non-Aligned Movement.
4. Berlin conference. 
5. International Court of Justice.