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YIO CHU KANG SECONDARY SCHOOL

END-OF-YEAR EXAMINATION 2022
SECONDARY ONE EXPRESS

HISTORY 1 Hour 10 Minutes

3 October 2022

Additional Materials: Answer Booklet

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Section A
Answer all parts of Question 1.

Section B
Answer any two questions.

Write all answers on the Answer Booklet provided.

The number of marks is given in brackets   at the end of each question or part question.

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Section A: Source-Based Question (15 marks)

Study the sources and Question 1 carefully, and then answer all parts of the question.

For each question part, you should use the source(s) indicated to help you answer the
question. In answering the questions, you should also use your knowledge of the topic to
help you understand and analyse the sources.

1. (a) Study Source A.

What can you infer from Source A about what life was like for people living in
rural villages in early 20th century Singapore? Use details from the source to
explain your answer.
[4m]

(b Study Source B.
)
What can you learn from Source B about going to the cinema in early 20th
century Singapore? Explain your answer.
[5m]

(c) Study Sources C and D.

In what way are these sources similar about the state of healthcare in British
Singapore? Explain your answer.
[6m]

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What was life like in Singapore during the 19th and early 20th centuries?

Source A: A photograph of a river scene and native huts in Singapore in the early
20th century.

Source B: Adapted from an online article about cinemas in Singapore in the early
part of the 20th century.

In 1904, Singapore’s first enclosed cinema – the Paris Cinematograph – located at

Victoria Street was opened. It was installed with electric fans. Before this, early
cinema screenings were held in tents in open spaces along Victoria Street or at the
foot of Fort Canning Hill. The new cinema initially screened one-hour-long films on
Saturdays, with showings at 6.30 pm and 11.30 pm. In the following year, screenings
of short films were held nightly at four timeslots. Seats were priced at 10 cents for
third class and 50 cents for reserved seats, while boxed seats were as much as a
dollar. There were even separate seats for ladies.

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Source C: Adapted from an article titled, “The Early Years”, in the Singapore
General Hospital website.

Western medical care in the early decades of Singapore’s founding was

administered by doctors in military hospitals for the troops. There was no hospital for
civilians such as sailors who were not part of the colonial military establishment. Nor
was there one for the local inhabitants. Local inhabitants and immigrants sought
treatment from their traditional doctors and healers. Government officials and the
European community were luckier. They were treated in their homes by surgeons
sent from the General Hospital. Hospitals were often dilapidated, had few beds and
suffered from chronic shortage of trained healthcare staff.

Source D: Adapted from an oral history interview with Mr N I Narayanan, about

his experience of living in early 20th century Singapore.

In those days it was quite expensive to visit the western doctor. There were also not
that many of them. I think most of the ethnic communities depended on their own
traditional backgrounds. The Malays had the Jamu, the Indians had their Ayuverdic,
and the Chinese had their own traditional medicine shops that were located all over
Singapore. These were much cheaper and each ethnic group will only go to their
own traditional medicine places. It was only in extreme cases that people will go to
the hospital.

Acknowledgments:

Source A © Collection of National Museum of Singapore. Retrieved 30 July 2022 from:

https://www.roots.gov.sg/Collection-Landing/listing/1071792

Source B © Paris Cinematograph: Singapore’s First Enclosed Cinema (2014).

Retrieved 22 December 2020 from:
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history/events/cbd217d0-67f0-4780-a5a6-044eec4c39ca#5,

Source C © The Early Years. Singapore General Hospital. Retrieved 19 July 2022 from:
https://www.sgh.com.sg/SGH200/Pages/The-Early-Years.aspx

Source D © Narayanan, N. I. (2010). Special Project [Interview by Osman, Z.

Retrieved 22 December 2020, from:
http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/oral_history_interviews/record-details/69ef3671-1162-11e3-
83d5-0050568939ad?keywords=malay%20traditional%20medicine&keywords-type=all

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Section B: Structured Questions (20 marks)

Answer any two of the three questions in this section.

2 This question is on Singapore’s growth as a port city during the 19th and
early 20th centuries.

(a) State three external developments that affected Singapore’s development as a port
city in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
[3m]

(b) Describe how the British expanded Singapore’s port facilities from the 1850s to
early 20th century.
[7m]

3 This question is on the role of the migrant community in Singapore under the
British.

(a) State three places of origin of migrants who came to Singapore in the 19th century.
[
[3m]

(b) Describe the pull factors that attracted migrants to Singapore in the 19th and early
20th centuries. [7m]

4 This question is on the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in the Second World
War.

(a) State three types of defences set up all over Singapore by the British before the
Japanese invasion in early 1942. [3m]

(b) Describe how the Japanese prepared themselves for their invasion of Singapore.
[7m]

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