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HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
Paper 2
TIME: 2 ½ Hours

KISII SCHOOL
MOCK EXAM 2025
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)

311/2
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT
Paper 2
TIME: 2 ½ Hours

Instructions to Candidates

1. This paper consists of three sections A, B & C.

2. Answer to ALL questions must be written on the answer sheet provided.
3. Choose any three questions in Section B and any two questions in Section C.
4. Answer ALL questions in Section A.

This paper consists of 8 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to
Ensure that all the pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.
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 SECTION A (25MKS)
Answer all the Questions
1. Define the term prehistory as used in the study of history and government (1mk)
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2. Name one area in Africa where the remains of Australopithecus were first discovered (1mk)
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3. Give two inventions that led to the agrarian revolution in Britain (2mks)
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4. What is the difference between barter and trade in which currently is used as a medium of
exchange (2mks)
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5. Give two features of the Roman roads by 300AD (2mks)
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6. Give two factors which should be considered when sending message (2mks)
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7. Identify the main source of energy use in the early stages of industrial revolutions in Europe
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8. Name the scientist who invented the first modern portable mobile handset (1mk)
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9. State two ways through which the growth of Cairo was influenced by river Nile (1mk)
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10. Name two Portuguese colonies in Africa (2mks)
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11. Identify two communes in West Africa where the policy of assimilation was successfully
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12. Identify two types of nationalism in South Africa (2mks)
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13. What event prompted the United States of America to join the First World War (1mk)
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14. Identify the main organs of the united nation organization (2mks)
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15. State the main reason for the formation of ECOWAS (1mk)
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16. State one aim of Arusha declaration in Tanzania (1mk)
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17. Name one house of parliament in India (1mk)
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SECTION B 45MARKS
Answer any three questions in the section
18. Identify five uses of stone tools by the early man (5mks)
b) Explain five causes of food shortage in Africa today (10mks)
19a) Give three methods used to acquire slaves from invest Africa during Trans-Atlantic trade
(6mks)
b) Describe the organization of Trans-Sahara n trade (12mks)
20. What were the terms of the Berlin conference (1884-1885) (3mks)
b) Explain six reasons why Samori Toure was finally defeated by the French. (12mks)
21. State three economic reasons for the rise of nationalism in Ghana (3mks)
b) Explain six factors that contribute to the success of the front for liberation of Mozambique
(FRELIMO) in the struggle for independence (12mks)

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SECTION C (3MRKS)
Answer any two questions in this section
22. State three European dictators responsible for Second World War. (3mks)
b) Explain six political results of the Second World War (12mks)
23. State five characteristics of the common wealth member states (5mks)
b) Describe six achievements of no-aligned movement since its formation. (10mks)
24 State three requirements one was to fulfil in order to contest as presidential candidate in the USA
(3mks)
b) Discuss five functions of the federal government in the united states of American
(12mks)
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