Students must start practicing the questions from CBSE Sample Papers for Class 11 History with Solutions Set 3 are designed as per the revised syllabus.

CBSE Sample Papers for Class 11 History Set 3 with Solutions

Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 80

General Instructions:

  1. The Question paper is divided into five sections: Section A: MCQs 10 marks, Section B: Short Answer Type Questions 9 marks, Section C: Source based questions 15 marks, Section D: Long Answer Type Questions 32 marks, Section E: Map based 4 marks.
  2. All questions are compulsory.
  3. You may attempt any section at a time.
  4. All questions of that particular section must be attempted in the correct order.

Section-A (20 Marks)

Question 1.
Multiple Choice Questions

(i) The creators of Das Capital are: [1]
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Getech
(C) Carl Ais
(D) Aristotle
Answer:
(A) Karl Marx

(ii) In total, Hammurabi code of conduct consists of: [1]
(A) 100 codes
(B) 167 codes
(C) 213 codes
(D) 282 codes
Answer:
(D) 282 codes

(iii) Which of these was initially used for smelting? [1]
(A) Wood
(B) Coal
(C) Dry leaves and twigs
(D) Charcoal
Answer:
(C) Dry leaves and twigs

(iv) Declaration of the Indian Rights was prepared by: [1]
(A) Canadian natives
(B) Australia natives
(C) US natives
(D) European natives
Answer:
(C) US natives

(v) The water frame was invented by: [1]
(A) John Kay
(B) Richard Arkwright
(C) Wilbur Wright
(D) None of these
Answer:
(B) Richard Arkwright

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(vi) Where are Altamira caves located? [1]
(A) France
(B) Britain
(C) Egypt
(D) Spain
Answer:
(D) Spain

(vii) Canada came into existence. [1]
(A) By the end of the 17th century
(B) By the end of the 18th century
(C) By the beginning of the 18th century
(D) By the beginning of the 19th century
Answer:
(B) By the end of the 18th century

(viii) Printing was done in Japan with. [1]
(A) Wooden blocks
(B) Iron bocks
(C) Copper blocks
(D) Coal
Answer:
(A) Wooden blocks

(ix) Which language replaced the earliest language of Mesopotamian civilization? [1]
(A) Latin
(B) Sumerian
(C) Akkad
(D) Greek
Answer:
(C) Akkad

(x) When did the excavation at Mesopotamia begin? [1]
(A) 1850
(B) 1804
(C) 1840
(D) 1871
Answer:
(C) 1840

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Question 2.
Fill in the blanks.

(i) The_________was the Roman silver coin containing 4J4 gm of pure silver. [1]
Answer:
Denarius

(ii) Agricultural produce and______from China were exchanged with the Steppe. [1]
Answer:
Iron utensils

(iii) The Last Judgement is the painting of_______. [1]
Answer:
Michelangelo

(iv) Japanese emperor was known as_______. [1]
Answer:
Mikado

(v) _______wrote the Epic of Gilgamesh. [1]
Answer:
Sin-Leqi-unninni

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Question 3.
State whether true or false

(i) The famous Lazaret Caves are located in Australia. [1]
Answer:
False

(ii) Mongols were a nomadic tribe of Central Asia. [1]
Answer:
True

(iii) Guilds were the basis of the economic organisations. [1]
Answer:
True

(iv) Frankincense is a Latin name for an aromatic spice. [1]
Answer:
False

(v) The wood of the Iraqi Date Palm and poplar was not good enough for carts, cart wheels or boats. [1]
Answer:
True

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Section – B (9 Marks)

Question 4.
The Greatest Legacy of Mesopotamia to the world is its scholarly tradition of time reckoning and mathematics. Explain. [3]
Answer:
Dating around 1800 BCE, tablets with multiplication and division tables, square and square root tables, and tables of compound interest have been found. For Example- the square root of 2 was given as: 1 + 24/60 + 51/602 + 10/603.
(1) Students had to solve problems such as the following: a field of an area such and such is covered one finger deep in water; find out the volume of water.
(2) The division of the year into 12 months according to the revolution of the moon around the earth, the division of the month into four weeks, the day into 24 hours, and the hour into 60 minutes- all that we take for granted in our daily lives- has come to us from the Mesopotamians.
(3) Whenever solar and lunar eclipses were observed, their occurrence was noted according to year, month and day. Also, there were records about the observed positions of stars and constellations in the night sky.
(4) None of these momentous Mesopotamian achievements would have been possible without writing and the urban institution of schools, where students read and copied earlier written tablets, and where some boys were trained to become not record keepers for the administration, but intellectuals who could build on the work of their predecessors.

Question 5.
What were the three principles of Sun Yat Sen ? Explain. [3]
Answer:
Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) is regarded as the founder of modern China. His programme was called the Three Principles (San min chui). These were :
(1) Nationalism or overthrowing the Manchu who were seen as a foreign dynasty, as well as other foreign imperialists.
(2) Democracy or establishing a democratic government.
(3) Socialism, regulating capital and equalising landholdings.

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Question 6.
How did the emperors control and administer the vast Roman empire? [3]
Answer:
The Roman empire was organised into provinces except Italy and were subject to taxation. The urban centres were the main base of the imperial system. The local upper classes helped in administering their own territories. They became administrators and military commanders. The army and the administration consisted of people from the provinces which was due to the fact that citizenship had spread to these regions. Thus, the emperors controlled the provinces with the help of the local elite. This enabled them to tax the provincial countryside that generated much wealth for the empire.

Section – C (15 Marks)

Question 7.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. [5]
Karl Marx (1818-83), the great German philosopher, described the American frontier as ‘the last positive capitalist utopia the limitless nature and space to which the limitless thirst for profit adapts itself’.
(i) Who was Karl Marx?
(ii) Why was he so popular among the common people?
(iii) What were his views regarding the American frontier?
Answer:
(i) Karl Marx was a great German philosopher.
(ii) He was popular among the common people because of his theory of communism. He was particularly concerned about the conditions of the working class.
(iii) He described the American frontier as ‘the last positive capitalist utopia. He said that the American frontier was concerned with the thirst for profit.

Question 8.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: [5]
Doctor Galen on how Roman Cities Treated the Countryside ‘The famine prevalent for many successive years in many provinces has clearly displayed for men of any understanding the effect of malnutrition in generating illness. The city-dwellers, as it was their custom to collect and store enough grain for the whole of the next year immediately after the harvest, carried off all the wheat, barley, beans and lentils, and left to the peasants various kinds of pulses -after taking quite a large proportion of these to the city. After consuming what was left in the course of the winter, the country people had to resort to unhealthy foods in the spring; they ate twigs and shoots of trees and bushes and bulbs and roots of inedible
plants. Galen, On Good and Bad Diet.
(i) What does the given passage represent?
(ii) What was the custom of the city dwellers?
(iii) How was the ancient Roman society divided?
Answer:
(i) The passage is talking about the famine conditions and its ill effects which resulted in the shortage of food.
(ii) The city dwellers collected and stored sufficient grains like wheat, barley, beans and lentils, for the whole of the next year directly after the harvest and left to the peasant’s various kinds of pulses- after taking quite a large proportion of these to the city.
(iii) The ancient Roman society was divided into three classes.
(a) The Patrician
(b) The Plebeian
(c) The Slaves

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Question 9.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. [5]
‘Late antiquity’ is the term now used to describe the final, fascinating period in the evolution and break-up of the Roman Empire and refers broadly to the fourth to seventh centuries. The fourth century itself was one of considerable ferment, both cultural and economic. At the cultural level, the period saw momentous developments in religious life, with the emperor Constantine deciding to make Christianity the official religion, and with the rise of Islam in the seventh century.

But there were equally important changes in the structure of the state that began with the emperor Diocletian (284- 305), and it may be best to start with these. Overexpansion had led Diocletian to ‘cut back’ by abandoning territories with little strategic or economic value. Diocletian also fortified the frontiers, reorganised provincial boundaries, and separated civilian from military functions, granting greater autonomy to the military commanders (duces), who now became a more powerful group. Constantine consolidated some of these changes and added others of his own. His chief innovations were in the monetary sphere, where he introduced a new denomination, the solidus, a coin of 4Vi gm of pure gold that would, in fact, outlast the Roman Empire itself. Solidi were minted on a very large scale and their circulation ran into millions.
(i) For how long did Diocletian regime continue?
(ii) What does Late Antiquity mean?
(iii) Mention the innovation of Constantine.
Answer:
(i) The Diocletian regime continued from 284-305.
(ii) ‘Late antiquity’ is the term used to describe the final, fascinating period in the evolution and break-up of the Roman Empire and refers broadly to the fourth to seventh centuries.
(iii) Constantine did innovation in the monetary sphere. He introduced a new denomination, the solidus, a coin of 4/2 gm of pure gold that would, in fact, outlast the Roman Empire itself. Solidi were minted on a very large scale and their circulation ran into millions

Section – D (32 Marks)

Question 10.
Mention some of the facts regarding Ur, one of the earliest cities to be excavated. [8]
Answer:
Ur was systematically excavated in the 1930s. The main features that came to light were:
(1) Narrow winding streets indicate that wheeled carts could not have reached the houses. Sacks of grains or firewood would have been carried on donkey backs. Narrow winding streets and irregular shapes of plots indicates an absence of town planning. Also, there were no street drains like those found in Mohenjo-Daro. However, drains and pipes made of clay have been found in the inner courtyards of the Ur houses and probably the roofs sloped inwards so that the rainwater was channelized via the drain pipes into the sumps in the inner courtyards.
(2) This could have been a way to prevent the unpaved streets from becoming slushy after a heavy downpour.
(3) People seem to have swept all the household refuse into the streets. This made the street levels rise overtime and the thresholds of houses had to be raised so that no mud would flow in after the rains. Light came into the rooms from doors that opened into courtyards. There were no windows.
(4) There was a town cemetery at Ur in which the graves of the royalty and commoners have been found together, but few individuals were also found buried under the floors of the ordinary houses.

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Question 11.
Write a note on major development of Meiji era. [8]
Answer:
(1) Peasants were not allowed to carry arms and only the samurai class could carry swords.
(2) Disarmament of peasants ended frequent wars and established peace.
(3) Funds were raised by levying an agricultural ta(x) Textile machinery was imported from Europe, and foreign technicians were employed to train workers, as well as to teach in universities and schools.
(4) Population growth boosted the commercial economy and use of money created financial and creditsystems. The land was surveyed and owners were asked to pay regular ta(x).
(5) Paying for imports with gold and silver was stopped. Silk industry had achieved extraordinary growth.
(6) Cultural growth occurred. People developed new reading habits. Study of ancient Japanese literature came into being. Patronization of art and theatre also began by the merchants.
(7) Schooling was made compulsory for boys and girls and by1910 almost universal. Tuition fees were minimal.
(8) All young men over twenty had to do a period of military service. A modern military force was developed.
(9) A legal system was set up to regulate the formation of political groups, control the holding of meetings

Question 12.
What do you understand by the term ‘Renaissance’? Analyse the role of the printing press in Renaissance and the rapid spread of humanist culture of Italy. [8]
Answer:
Renaissance means ‘rebirth’. It occurred in Italy in the 15lh century. A new movement of knowledge started in Europe after a long dark age of ignorance. The people of Europe again began to take interest in European ancient culture and civilisation. By 1500 CE, a number of classical texts had been printed in Italy and most of them in Latin language.

Now books were easily available and students did not have to depend on the hand-written notes. Ideas and opinions spread more widelyand rapidly than ever before. A printed book with new ideas could quickly reach thousands of readers. Now people could purchase books and this greatly spread humanist ideas. Great writers like Shakespeare wrote great books. The books discussed man’s sentiments, capabilities and weaknesses in detail. Famous literary works of the period include Utopia, Hamlet, Divine comedy etc.

Humanism also had a great influence on the art of the Renaissance Age. Though the paintings of Raphael and Michelangelo were concerned with wealth, their basis was man. In their paintings they depicted mother Mary as an affectionate mother to Jesus. Other famous works include Mona Lisa, Madonna etc. The artists attached great importance to the beauty of the physical form. Leonardo-da- Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer and a scientist. His works reveal his mastery over colours and forms.

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Question 13.
Describe the social and political background of the Mongols. [8]
Answer:
Social background: The Mongols consisted of different types of people who were linked together with similarities of languages. Some Mongols were pastoralists who tended horses, sheep, cattle, goats and camels while others were hunter-gatherers. They habituated the area of the Steppes of Central Asia and the hunter-gatherers resided in the Siberian forests. They made a living by trading in furs of animals. The Mongols did not take to farming and travelled with their herds from winter to summer pasture lands.

Political background: The scarce resources and natural calamities like harsh cold winters led to conflicts to have control over more pasture lands or to search more livestock. The groups of families would form confederacies for offensive or defensive purposes. These confederacies were however formed for a short duration. The size of confederation formed by Genghis Khan was almost the same as formed by Attila in the fifth century.

Section – E (4 Marks)

Question 14.
On the given map of Australia, locate the following. [4]

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(i) Perth
(ii) Adelaide
(iii) Canberra
(iv) Melbourne

Answer:

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