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FINAL EXAMINATIONS – ACADEMIC

YEAR 2022
CAMBRIDGE CURRICULUM

SUBJECT: ________________ GRADE: ______

Name: ________________________________________
Date: ____ November 2022
Score: Percentage
___/___ ___/100% :
___/50%
You must:
 have your complete materials (pencil, pen, eraser, coloured
pencils)
 be on time for all exams
 follow instructions of the invigilator

You must NOT:

 talk to, attempt to communicate with, or disturb other
students once you have entered in the classroom
 be involved in any unfair or dishonest practice before, during,
or after the exam
If you are in any doubt raise your hand and speak to an invigilator.
If you break any of the rules you could be DISQUALIFIED.

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 I. Directions: Read the statements correctly. Write True if the statement is correct and
False if it is incorrect. Write your answers on the space provided.

___________1. Stone Age is a prehistoric period of time.

___________2. A person who studies past human life, by looking at objects and other evidence
is called an paleontologist.
___________3. Stone Age people used different types of metal to make tools.
___________4. Early Stone Age people were nomads.
___________5. There are examples of Early Stone Age art in caves and on rocks in different
places on earth.
___________6. People started farming about 15 000 years ago in Mesopotamia.
___________7. Farmers sometimes built a dam across a river.
___________8. Farming led to inventions such as stylus.

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___________9. Neolithic builders used building materials such as wood, mud and stone.
___________10. Skara Brae is a settlement of stone houses on an island off the coast of
Scotland.
___________11. Neolithic people built stone monuments.
___________12. Early farmers domesticated wild animals to live and work on their farms.
___________13. People learned to farm at the same time all over the world.
___________14. The Stone age is divided into three periods: the Palaeolithic, the Mesolithic
and the Neolithic.
___________15. After people started farming, they had to move from one place to another.

II. Multiple Choice: Directions: Read each question carefully. Write the letters of your
on the space provided.

_____1. People mixed copper and tin together to create a new material called:
a. iron b. copper c. tin d. bronze
_____2. Which of the following was not a job developed throughout Bronze age?
a. Hunter c. metal-workers
b. weaver d. miners
_____3. In an Iron Age village, most people on worked on:
a. seas b. farms c. building d. factory
_____4. All of the following were items traded during Bronze age except:
a. jewellery b. timber c. salt d. tin
_____5. A large group of people who live in an organized way
a. trade b. city c. society d. civilisation
_____6. A place where people live and make a community
a. settlement b. society c. villa d. cave
_____7. In about __________ people learned how to use iron.
a. 500 BCE b. 800 BCE c. 8000 BCE d. 5000 BC
_____8. It is made of one flat, round stone on top of another stone and used to grind grain to
make flour.
a. rotary quern b. pots c. loom d. none of the
above
_____9. In Iron Age village, the common works for women were:
a. potter and weaver c. potter and builder
b. potter and teacher d. d. none of the above
_____10. These were areas of high ground with walls and ditches built around them
a. hill forts b. mountain forts c. valley forts d. none of the above
_____11. A house built in a round shape because this shape was very strong
a. Square house b. roundhouse c. pottery d. trianglehouse
_____12. Some Iron age warriors rode into battle in a two-wheeled vehicle called a
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 a. cart b. wagon c. chariot d. none of the above
_____13. People started to use iron instead of bronze because iron was:
a. cheaper and stronger c. stronger and more expensive
b. softer and cheaper d. all of the above.
_____14. A line of rulers who come from the same family is called:
a. king b. dynasty c. monarchy d. republican
_____15. The bronze age ended when the people began to use:
a. copper b. tin c. iron d. gold
_____16. This clay tablet has writing from Ancient Sumer. This writing is called:
a. stylus c. circular
b. cuneiform d. symbol

_____17. The Shang Dynasty civilisation was based along the:

a. Green River b. Yellow River c. Blue River d. Red River
_____18. It helped prepare more land for crops.
a. shaduf b. plough c. potter’s wheel d. loom
_____ 19. It was a machine for raising water from the channels onto the fields.
a. shaduf b. plough c. potter’s wheel d. channel
_____ 20. A person who carries out unskilled manual work
a. thatch b. scribe c. labourer d. none of the above
_____21. A roof covering of straw or reeds
a. thatch b. rammed earth c. brick wall d. none of the above
_____22. An ancient writing tool, often with a sharp end for making marks and a blunt end for
removing them.
a. tax b. symbol c. stylus d. scribe
_____23. Money collected to pay government workers, the army and for public services such as
roads and water supply.
a. tax b. symbol c. stylus d. cuneiform

_____24. A very thick, black, sticky liquid

a. paint b. bitumen c. goods d. merchant
_____25. It is the exchange of one thing for something else.
a. tax b. trader c. trade d. symbol

III. Matching type: Directions: Match the words in Column A with the correct picture in
column B. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided after the
number.

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1. ______ rotary quern a.

2. _______ Penny Black b.

3. _______ moveable type c.

4. _______ stylus d.

5. _______ Stone arrow heads e.

6. _______ roundhouse f.

7. ________ moveable type g.

8. ________ printing press h.

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 9. ________ loom i.

10. ________ television j.

IV. Fill in the blanks: Directions: Write what is being asked or described. The terms in
the box will help you. Write the the correct answer on the space provided before the
number.
V.
Johannes Gutenberg Bi Sheng moveable type mail
printing blocks stamp Alexander Graham Bell cuneiform
A Penny Black postal service smart phone Rowland Hill
radio telecommunication

__________________1. the world’s first stamp

__________________2. He invented the moveable type in between 1041-1048 CE.
__________________3. means “wedge-shaped” and the earliest writing system
__________________4. He introduced the world’s first stamp.
__________________5. a special way of sending signals that carry sound through the air
__________________6. a service that delivers letters and parcels
__________________7. exchanging information using technology
__________________8. they carved the image to be printed from a wooden block
__________________9. a mobile telephone that has many functions, like a computer
__________________10. He invented the first telephone in 1876.
VI. Enumeration: Directions: List down or enumerate what are being asked on each of the
following item.

(1-3) What did people eat in the early Stone Age?

1. ______________________________
3. ______________________________
2. ______________________________
(4-7) Give 4 examples of an Ice Age animals
4. ______________________________ 5. ______________________________
6. ______________________________

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 7. ______________________________
(8-10) Provide at least 3 new jobs developed throughout the Bronze Age

8. _____________________________
10. _____________________________
9. _____________________________
(11-15) Give 5 items/goods that Bronze Age people traded

11. ____________________________
14. _____________________________
12. ____________________________
15. _____________________________
13. ____________________________
(16-18) Enumerate 3 objects that were buried with people during Iron Age.

16. ____________________________
18. ____________________________
17. ____________________________
(19-21) List 3 items traded in the Shang Dynasty.

19. ____________________________
21. ____________________________
20. ____________________________
(22-24) Enumerate at least 3 pens that developed over time.

22. ___________________________
24. ____________________________
23. ___________________________
(25-26) 2 ways on how people communicate today.
25. ____________________________ 26. ____________________________
VII. Answer these questions:
1. Why did different groups go to war? (3 pts.)

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

2. What is the impact of printing press? (3 pts.)

___________________________________________________________________________
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3. How do people use telecommunication today? (4pts.)

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

VIII. Use the Cuneiform alphabet below to decode the words below. (10 pts.)

_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____

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