Practice Paper (2025-26)
HISTORY (027)
CLASS-Xl
Time Allowed: 3 hrs Max. Marks: 80
General Instructions:
(i) Question paper comprises five Sections – A, B, C, D and E. There
are 34 questions in the question paper . All questions are
compulsory.
(ii) Section A – Question 1 to 21 are MCQs of 1 mark each.
(iii) Section B – Question no. 22 to 27 are Short Answer Type
Questions, carrying 3 marks each.Answer to each question should
not exceed 60-80 words.
(iv) Section C - Question no 28 to 30 are Long Answer Type
Questions, carrying 8 marks each. Answer to each question should
not exceed 300-350 words.
(v) Section D – Question no.31 to 33 are Source based questions with
three sub questions and are of 4 marks each.
(vi) Section E - Question no. 34 is Map based, carrying 5 marks that
includes the identification and location of significant test items.
Attach the map with the answer book.
(vi) There is no overall choice in the question paper . However, an
internal choice has been provided in few questions. Only one of the
choices in such questions has to be attempted.
(viii) In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each
section and question, wherever Necessary.
SECTION A
OBJECTIVE BAAED QUESTIONS 1X21=21Marks
Q1. Identify the name of emperor with the help of the following
information:
• He collected a library at his capital, Nineveh in the north.
• He sent his scribes south to find old tablets.
• He declared himself as a king of the universe.
a) Nabonidus
b) Sargon
c) Assurbanipal
d) Enmerkar
Q2. War captives and local people who were put to work for the
temple or for the ruler were paid
a) Bronze tools
b) Cattle
c) coins
d) Ration
Q3. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A)
and the other labeled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) - The greatest legacy of Mesopotamia to the world is its
scholarly tradition of time reckoning and mathematics.
Reason (R)- The division of the year into 12 months according to the
revolution of the earth around the sun.
i) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
ii) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
iii) A is true but R is false.
iv) A is false but R is true
Q4.'What is the meaning of ‘mesos’?
a) The Highland
b) The Mid Land
c) The Plateau region
d) An Island
Q5.The first known language of Mesopotamia was
a) Akkadian
b) Hebrew
c) Aramaic
d) Sumerian
Q6. Roman Empire remained the Republic till .............
a) 27 BCE
b) 27 CE
c) 527 BCE
d) 512 BCE
Q7.Which among the following is Correctly matched?
List 1 List 2
1. Spain. i. Punic
2. Armenia. ii. Celtic
3. Egypt. iii. Coptic
4. North Africa. iv. Armenian
Q8. Who recommended that landowners should keep a reserve stock
of implements and tools, twice as they needed?
a) Tacitus
b) Pliny the Elder
c) Columella
d) Augustine
Q9.“If you insult the peasantry' take their oxen and seed and trample
their crops into the ground, what will you do in the future?” Who
said this statement?
a) Genghis Khan
b) Ghazan Khan
c) Qubilai Khan
d) Chaghatai khan
Q10. Why Genghis Khan commanded to plunder and destroy
Nishapur?
a) Because a Mongol prince was killed.
b) Because Nishapur refused to export agricultural produce.
c) Because they were developing industries.
d) None of the above.
Q11.The Mongol Empire was founded by:
a) Genghis Khan
b) Alexander the Great
c) Julius Caesar
d) Attila the Hun
Q12. Construction of Cathedral town attributed to
(a) Higher yield in agricultural production
(b) Promotion of trade and industry
(c) Business promotion drive under the shade of religion
(d) The contribution and subscription by craftsmen, artisans,
merchants and common people.
Q13.A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a
water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean
world for writing
a) All of these
b) Papyri
c) Ancient ink
d) Annals
Q14. Who bestowed Temujin with the title of Genghis Khan?
a) Quriltai
b) Muhammad
1c) The Prophet Muhammad
d) Mongke
Q15. Assertion (A): An average European could expect to live 10
years longer than in the eighth century. In comparison to men,
women and girls lived longer lives.
Reason (R): By the thirteenth century, men were able to eat better
food.
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is true but R is false.
d) A is false but R is true.
Q16. ______ was the supreme authority in the church’s institution.
a) Devotee
b) Pope
c) King
d) Deity
Q17. Consider the following statements and select the correct from
the following option:
(i)Enmerkar is associated with the organisation of the first trade of
Sumer
(ii) Enmerkar wanted lapis lazuli and precious metals for the
beautification of a city temple.
(iii) Enmerkar sent his chief out to get these metals from the
messenger of a very distant land called Arikamedu.
a) i and iii
b) i and ii
c) ii and iii
d) i, ii and iii
Q18. Which social order enjoyed the privileges?
a) Serfs
b) Clergy
c) None of these
d) Peasantry
Q19. What is the meaning of Yasa?
a) Legally Examined
b) Legal Authority
c) Illegal documents
d) Legal code
Q20. Assertion (A): Iraq is known as the land of uniform
environment.
Reason (R): It has undulating plains, mountain ranges, uplands, and
deserts.
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is true but R is false.
d) A is false but R is true.
Q21. Free peasants were...........?
(a) Peasant-cum-soldier
(b) Payers of labour –rent in Begar
(c) Tenants of the Lord
(d) Denied of Political Rights
SECTION B
Short Answer Questions 3
Q22. What is The Political Importance of The Feudal System?
Q23. Write a note on Mongol Society.
Q24. How was the Economic condition in the Early Roman Empire?
Q25. Describe the important features of Mesopotamian script.
Q26. What were the various ways for movement of goods into cities?
Q27. Write a brief description of Genghis Khan.
SECTION C
LONG ANSWERS QUESTIONS
Q28. Discuss the causes of the success of Genghis Khan.
Q29. Explain the system of the vassalage of the second order: The
Nobility ?
Q30. Mesopotamia civilisation gave a significant contribution in the
world.
SECTION D
SOURCE BASED QUESTIONS
Q31.Read the passage and answer given question-
This woman’s head was sculpted in white marble at Uruk before
3000 BCE. The eyes and eyebrows would probably have taken lapis
lazuli (blue) and shell (white) and bitumen (black) inlays, respectively.
There is a groove along the top of the head, perhaps for an
ornament. This is a world-famous piece of sculpture, admired for the
delicate modelling of the woman’s mouth, chin and cheeks. And it
was modelled in a hard stone that would have been imported from a
distance.
Q31.1 Where was the woman’s head sculpture discovered? What
was it called? (1)
Q31.2 What were its unique characteristics? (1)
Q31.3How can you prove that Mesopotamia was an urban
civilization? (2)
Q32.Read the passage and answer given question-
Because of the inadequacy which we often felt on feast days, for the
narrowness of the place forced the women to run towards the altar
upon the heads of the men with much anguish and noisy confusion,
[we decided] to enlarge and amplify the noble church. We also
caused to be painted, by the exquisite hands of many masters from
different regions, a splendid variety of new windows… Because these
windows are very valuable on account of their wonderful execution
and the profuse expenditure of painted glass and sapphire glass, we
appointed an official master craftsman for their protection, and also
a goldsmith. . .who would receive their allowances, namely, coins
from the altar and flour from the common storehouse of the
brethren, and who would never neglect their duty, to look after
these [works of art]. Abbot Suger (1081-1151) about the Abbey of St
Denis, near Paris. Self-made
Q32.1 Define cathedral. (1)
Q32.2 What purpose did the stained windows serve? (1)
Q32.3 What were the vital features of a cathedral and cathedral
towns? (2)
Q33..Read the passage and answer given question-
‘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 pulse –
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.
Q33.1 What was the main cause of illness in the villages? (1)
Q33.2 Which types of crops were grown in the villages? (1)
Q33.3 .What did the villagers eat in the spring? (2)
SECTION E
MAP BASED QUESTIONS
Q34.1. On the given map, locate and label the following
appropriately:
1. Rhine and Danube river
2. Sahara Desert
3. Mediterranean Sea
Q34.2. On the given map of western Italy, There are some points
cover as X. Identify them and write their names on near them.
