PRESIDENT’S OFFICE

REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT:

ZAEKI SECONDARY SCHOOL ,

FORM ONE SCHOOOL OPEN EXAMINATION

HISTORY

TIME 2:30 Hours JULY 2024

INSTRUCTIONS

1. This paper consists of section A, B and C with a total of ten (10) questions.
2. Answer all questions
3. All writing must be in blue or black ink.
4. Write your NAME on every page of your answer booklet (s) or sheet.

SECTION A: (15 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section.
1. For each of the items (i)-(x) choose the correct answer from among the given alternatives
and write its letter beside the items number in the answer booklet provided.
(i) History is the study which deals with -:
A. Past tense and future events
B. Past present and predication of future events
C. Human activities only

(ii) A person who proposed evolution theory was called-:

A. Dr. louse Leakey

B. Dr. Charles Darwin
C. Dr. Mary Leakey
(iii) The tools which were used during early stone age were called-:
A. Sango an tools
B. Old wan tools
C. Pebbles stone tools
(iv) Homo Sapiens was a man who was called -:
A. Intelligent man
B. Man of ability to read and write
C. The modern man
(v) The history which is given through narration is called-:
A. Oral tradition
B. Museums
C. Archives
 (vi) Archives involves with -:
A. Keeping of public stories
B. keeping of Animal And hunting
C. Keeping public and private documents
(vii) Carbon 14 refers to the -:
A. scientific methods used in dating
B. Scientific ways used in date
C. Time chat and family trees
(viii) The historical remains kept in the museums are known as -:
A. artifact and fossils
B. Stone age tools
C. Books and stone tools
(ix) One of the historical sources which used excavation method is known as -:
A. Archives
B. Archaeology
C. Anthropology

(x) The average of different age between parents and children is -:

A. Generation
B. Decade
C. Century

2. Match the items in list A with the corresponding correct responses in list B by writing the
letter of the correct responses besides the item Number in your answer booklet.

LIST A LIST B
(i) A scientific study of languages. A. Museums
(ii) The keeping of public and private B. Linguistic
documents. C. Archaeology
(iii) The scientific study of historical D. Archives
remains E. The source of Zinjanthropus
(iv) Oldvai Gorge. F. Anthropology
(v) Kisesa Mwanza. .

Answer

LIST A i. ii. iii. iv. v.

LIST B

SECTION B:
Answer all questions
3. Define the following historical terms-:
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v. Century
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4. –list down five stage of evolution of man-:
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5. Give out five features of Homo erectus -:
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6. List down four method used to determine date of historical events
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7. Draw a map of East Africa and locate the following historical sites (i) Olduvai George
(ii) fort tenan (iii) Isimila (iv) Kondoa irangi (v) Ntusi -:
 8. List down five museums found in Tanzania -:
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9. Give five different between oral tradition and written records

Oral tradition Written records

i. i)

ii. ii)

iii. iii)

iv. iv)

v. v)

SECTION C:
10. Mention and explain importance of studying history
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