KALA FORM 4 PRE-TRIAL EXAMINATION 2024

HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT

Kenya Certificate ofSecondary Education

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MAY 2024 2 Yi HOURS

Name: ...................................................Admission No .......................

School.....................................................Class..............................

Signature ........................Date: ..........................

Instructions to candidates
(a) Write your name, admission number and school in the spaces provided above.
(b) Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided above.
( c) The paper contains THREE Sections: Section A, Section Band Section C.
(d) Answer ALL the questions in Section A, THREE questions in section Band TWO
questions from Section C
( e) All answers must be written on the question paper in the spaces provided

(/) Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing.
(g) Answer all the questions in English.

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 SECTION A (25 MARKS)

Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided.

1. Identify one branch of Kenyan history. (1 mark)

2. Identify two pre-historic sites where the remains of Kenyapithecus were discovered in Kenya.
(2 marks)

3. Give two reasons why Kenyan communities fought each other during the pre-colonial period.
(2 marks)

4. Identify one age grade of elders among the Akamba. (1 mark)

5. Name one Arab family which ruled the Kenyan Coast on behalf of the Oman. (1 mark)

6. Identify one economic duty of a Kenyan citizen. (1 mark)

7. Identify two ways in which elders resolve conflicts in their communities. (2 marks)

8. Identify the main reason for the formulation of the Inter-Party ParlL.amentary Group (1.1.P.G) in 1997.
(1 mark)

9. State two survival rights of children. (2 marks)

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10. Identify two ways in which the results of the collaboration of the Maasai with the British was similar
to that of the Wanga. (2 marks)

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11. Give the main reason why Poll-tax was introduced in Kenya during the colonial period. (1 mark)

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12. State two recommendations of the Lyttelton constitution of 1954. (2 marks)

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13. Name the political party founded by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga after resigning from Kenya African
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14. Identify two types of cases which are determined by Kadhis' Courts in Kenya. (2 marks)

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15. Give two reasons for the adoption of Harambee strategy in Kenya after independence. (2 marks)

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16. State the main role of opposition political parties in Kenya. (1 mark)

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17. Give the main function of the Commission on Revenue Allocation in Kenya. (1 mark)

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 SECTION B (45 MARKS)
Answer any three questions in this section.

18. {a) Give three social reasons which influenced the migration of the Plain Nilotes to Kenya
during the pre-colonial period {3marks)
{b) Describe six aspects of the social organization of the Agikuyu during the pre-colonial
period. {12 marks)

19. (a) Give five reasons for the coming of the Portuguese to the Kenyan Coast in the 15th
century AD. {5 marks)
{b) Describe five effects of Oman rule along the Coast of Kenya by the 19th Century. {10 marks)

20. {a) Identify five causes of the Nandi resistance against the British invasion in Kenya.
(5 marks)
{b) Describe five roles played by Thomas Joseph Mboya in the development of trade union
movement in Kenya. (10 marks)

21. (a) Identify three features of African Socialism in Kenya. (3 marks)

(b) Explain six functions of the National Land Commission. (12 marks)

SECTION C (30 MARKS)

Answer any two questions in this section.

22. {a) Give three conditions one must fulfil in order to become a Kenyan citizen by registration.
(3 marks)
{b) Describe six features of the Independence Constitution of Kenya. (12 marks)

23. {a) Give the composition of the Judicial Service Commission in Kenya. {5 marks)
{b) Explain five limitations of Parliamentary supremacy in Kenya. (10 marks)

24. (a) Give three ways in which the National Governmenl: relates with the County
Governments in Kenya. (3 marks)
(b) Describe six functions of the County Governments in Kenya. {12 marks)

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