PRESIDENENT’S OFFICE-REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL

GOVERNMENT
MBARALI DISTRICT COUNCIL
IGAVA SECONDARY SCHOOL
PRE NECTA EXAMINATION
FORM FOUR
HISTORY

TIME 3:00 HRS YEAR: 2023

INSTRUCTIONS
• This paper consists of A, B and C sections with a total number of nine (9) Questions
• Answer all Questions in sections A and B, and only three (3) Questions from section C.
• All writings must be in either blue or black ink
• All drawings must be in pencil.
• Write your Examination index Number on every page of your answer sheet(s)

SECTION A (20 MARKS)

Answer all Questions in this section
1. For each of the items (i-x), choose the correct alternative from among the given and write
its letter in your answer sheet provided.
i. During the colonial period the provision of social services was not given priority to
Africans because:
A. Arabs and Portuguese had provided social services before colonialism
B. Africans refused to accept modernity
C. fricans had all such social services needed
D. Social services were part of profit to European capitalists
E. Social services were not part of profit to European capitalists.
ii. In 1900 Sir Harry Johnstone Signed a treaty with the Buganda Kabaka called:
A. Apolo Kagwa II
B. Suna I
C. Daudi Chwa
D. Mwanga II
E. Mutesa II
iii. The US involvement in the Second World War was due to the following reasons
except;
A. Defending her investments in the European colonies
B. Rescuing her friends and relatives from attacks and killings.
C. Showing her military and arms strength in the World
D. German’s declaration to attack all neutral powers
E. Stopping ongoing Americas political chaos in the South.

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 iv. Among the following, one was Not a kind of labour during colonial rule in Africa
A. Forced labour
B. Cheap labour
C. Migrant labour
D. Contract labour
E. Waged labour.
v. Colonial education was pyramidal in shape. This implies:
A. It appeared in the structure of a pyramid figure.
B. The number of learners concentrated much at the top
C. The number of learners decreased as higher one was climbing.
D. It neglected the patterns of African informal education
E. African and white learners where equal in all learning levels.
vi. A decade is different from a century because;
A. A decade is a period of 10 years while a century is a period of 100 years.
B. A decade is a period of 100 years while a century is a period of 10 years.
C. A decade is a period of 10 years while a century is a period of 1000 years.
D. A decade is a period of 10 years while a century is a period of 1000 years.
E. A decade is recorded from a long time while a century is recorded in a short
time.
vii. Refers to someone who lives on somebody else’s land in return for provision of
cheap labour to the owner of the land
A. Slave
B. uzerain
C. potter
D. Squatter
E. Peasant
viii. The policy divide and rule was used by….which involved making alliance with one
town and learning out the other;
A. Arabs
B. British
C. Portuguese
D. France
E. Germany
ix. The term MKWAVINYIKA means
A. the ma of the people
B. the conqueror
C. the master of war
D. the leader of hehe
E. the man him self
x. The Harmaton Treaty (185) was about:
A. Allowing Sultan of Zanzibar to buy slaves outside East Africa
B. Closing all slaves markets along the coast of East cost.
C. For binding Sultan of Zanzibar to export slaves outside East Africa.
D. Allowing Sultan of Zanzibar to sell slaves in Arabin
E. Abolishing slave trade and slavery in all British colonies.
xi. The British explorer who discovered Lake Victoria in 1858, July 30th was;

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 A. Johan Rebman
B. Henry Mostan Stanley
C. Richard Burton
D. John Hanning Speke
E. Dr. David Livingstone
xii. The major political problem faced by independent African states after
independence was:
A. Interterritorial border conflicts
B. Experts without color jobs
C. Size of independent states
D. Low incomes to the majority
E. Low life expectancy at births
xiii. During industrial capitalism the production in the industries were done through the
use of;
A. Tractors
B. Machines
C. A certain technology
D. machinery
E. human labour
xiv. The following were the methods used to affect settler agriculture except.
A. Applying land alienation from the natives
B. Providing long land leases to the whites
C. Creation of land policies like crown lands
D. Prohibiting Africans from growing cash crops
E. Formation of laborer working associations
xv. The Ndendeule society who fled to Kilombero valley were renamed as the;
A. Mbunga
B. Matengo
C. Tuta
D. Hehe
E. Makua
2. Match the items in List A with their correct responses in List B by writing the letter of the
response beside the item number.
LIST A LIST B
(i) The movement of borers with their A: Delimination Treaty
families from the cape to the interior of B: Rudd Concession
southern Africa C: Boer trek
(ii) Lived between 1,500,000 and 750,000 D: Bogus Treaties
years ago E: Homohabilis
(iii) Strong nation control weak nation F: Omkotho we Sizwe
(iv) The treaties signed between African local G: Moffat Treaty
rulers with the industrial imperialist H: Colonialism
forerunners
(v) A treaty signed by the British and
Germans in 1886 for division of East
Africa territories.

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 SECTION B: (35 MARKS)
Answer all questions from this section.
3. Give briefly explanations to the following historical terms
(a) Neolithic revolution
(b) Ubusoka ceremony
(c) Colonial transport infrastructures
(d) Long Distance trade
(e) Indian Banyans
(f) Industrial capitalism
4. Re - arrange the following sentences in a chronological order by writing numbers (1-6).
(i) In December 1963, the British handled political powers to the Arab Minority.
(ii) It was soon followed by the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar forming the
United Republic of Tanzania.
(iii) The 1964 Zanzibar Revolution was the second attempt to bring about the real
political independence.
(iv) British control of Zanzibar started in 1890 after the Heligoland Treaty.
(v) This was a great contribution to the creation of East African Community in 1967.
(vi) That event of handling powers to the minority was not smoothly welcomed and
therefore was strongly opposed and resisted.
5. Draw a sketch map of East Africa and locate the following by using numbers
(i) A country that adopted socialist ideology known as socialism and self-reliance.
(ii) The area where the skull believed to be the early man was discovered.
(iii) The area where cloves plantations were planted.
(iv) The area which was colonized by France
(v) The country that its colonial economic system was settler economy

SECITON C: (45MARKS)
Attempt only three (3) Questions from this section
6. The Majimaji Uprising of 1905 – 1907 in Tanganyika remains a symbol of the African
struggle against colonial rule. Justify with six (6) points.
7. Describe five (5) uses of iron discovered during Iron Age
8. What were the reasons that hindered political unity in Africa?
9. Show how indirect rule was useful in the British administrative system by giving six (6)
points.

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