History Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

History involves documenting and explaining past events, particularly those related to specific places or subjects. Its aim is to enhance our understanding of the past and present social, political, religious, and economic conditions of a community.

• Question 151:

  The Mahdists revolt in the Sudan was successful

  Options:
  A) They believed they had a superior faith
  B) it enjoyed widespread support
  C) the Egyptian army was poorly trained
  D) General Gordon was an incompetent commander.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 152:

  The Ife Civilization is most remarkable for its

  Options:
  A) use of terra cotta and bronze heads
  B) multiplicity of idols and gods
  C) its discovery of terra cotta (burnt clay)
  D) use of carved woods and ivory
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 153:

  Britain suppressed the trans-Atlantic slave trade because

  Options:
  A) there was no more market for slaves in America
  B) it had become very inhuman
  C) the Christian missions preached against it
  D) it became unfavourable to her industrial progress.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 154:

  The most significant act of statesmanship associated with
  Abdulsalami regime was

  Options:
  A) promulgate the 1999 Constitution
  B) handing over power to a civilian government
  C) the release of political prisoners
  D) organizing successful general elections.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 155:

  The Mahdiyya Movement in Sudan overthrew the ...

  Options:
  A) Italo-Egyptian Regime in the early 1880s
  B) Italo-Egyptian Regime in the early 1890s
  C) Ottoman-Egyptian Regime in the early 1880s
  D) Ottoman-Egyptian Regime in the early 1890s
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 156:

  The British policy of indirect rule sought to 

  Options:
  A) encourage the educated elite to participate in local administration
  B) make the indigenous political institutions adapt to British system of Government
  C) use indigenous political institutions to serve British interest
  D) promote co-operation between the educated elite and the indigenous rulers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 157:

  The division of the Sokoto Caliphate into Emirates was largely due to

  Options:
  A) the autocratic directive of Dan Fodio
  B) the rivalry that persisted between the Hausa Jihadists and the Fulani scholars
  C) geographical reasons
  D) economical factors
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 158:

  The colonial officer who was responsible for splitting the Southern Province in to Eastern and Western Provinces was

  Options:
  A) Bernard Bourdillon
  B) Graeme Thompson
  C) Hugh Clifford
  D) Frederick Lugard.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 159:

  Muhammad es Sadek was a 19th century ruler of

  Options:
  A) Morocco
  B) Libya
  C) Tunisia
  D) Algeria.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 160:

  In 1963, the Eastern region of Nigeria went to the supreme court over the

  Options:
  A) decision of the federal government to conduct a fresh census
  B) exclusion of Easterners resident in the North from the census
  C) the population figures of the national census
  D) exclusion of women in the national census.
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  The correct answer is C .