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1 Name: Class: G I R L S S e c o n d a r y S c h o o l L - I M R I E Ħ E L HALF YEARLY EXAMINATIONS 2015/2016 FORM: 3 History (Option) Time: 1.30 Ex 1: Study the list of the following events during the early years of the Knights in Malta. Put them in chronological order: (10 Marks) a. The Turks attacked Malta during the Great Siege. b. Emperor Charles V gave the Maltese Islands to the Knights as a feudal fief. c. The Knights were expelled from Rhodes. 1 d. La Valette was appointed Grand Master of the Order. e. The Knights sent a Commission to look into the state of the Maltese Islands. f. L Isle Adam was given the symbolic keys to the city of Mdina. Ex2: Read the following text and answer the following questions. (20 marks) In 1565 the Ottoman Empire was at its peak. Under their sultan, Suleyman the Magnificent, the Turks had conquered most of Eastern Europe. The rulers of Christian Europe were at their wits' end to stem the tide of disaster. The Knights of St John, the fighting religious order drawn from most of the nations of Christendom had been driven from their island fortress of Rhodes 40 years earlier. From their new base of Malta their galleys had been so successful in their raids on Turkish shipping that the Sultan realised that only they stood between him and total mastery of the Mediterranean. He determined to obliterarte the Knights of Malta. 1

2 The Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford 1999 by Wordsworth Military Library (first published 1961) 1. From the source above give one reason why sultan, Solyman the Magnificent wanted to attack the Knights in Malta. (3 marks) Fill in: 2. When Grand Master La Valette came to know Malta was going to be attacked he asked Emperor Charles V, the Pope and the Viceroy of Sicily for but no help came. (1 mark) 3. The Islanders took refuge in the fortified towns of and destroying crops and poisoning wells as they fled. (2 marks) 4. The two main forts used during the great siege were fort,, in what is now Victoriosa and the newly-built fort on Mount Sciberras overlooking two most important harbours the and.(4 marks) 5. The Great Siege ended on 8th September. What is the feast known as? (1 mark) 6. How do we commemorate this feast today? (1 mark) 2

3 7. Give ONE reasons why the Turks lost the Great Siege? (2marks) 8. Give ONE reasons why the Knights and the Maltese won the Great Siege. (2 marks) 9. Mention TWO long term effects of the great siege: (4 marks) i. ii. Ex3: Choose ONE of the following titles and answer each question in essay form on a separate sheet. (20 marks) 1. At was the Corso and why was it an important industry under the Knights? Show the fleet important to the Order of St. John? How did the Order s naval activities affect the life of the Maltese? Or 2. Account for any two of these projects undertaken by the Knights during their stay in Malta: (a) the Sacra Infermeria (b) Wignacourt Aqueduct (c) the restoration of Mdina. 3

4 Ex 4: Match the following personalities. Fill in the following table as shown in the example provided. (5 marks) 1 Dante Alighieri The First Printing Press 2 Michelangelo The book entitled The Prince. 3 Nicholas Copernicus The first king to build Renaissance palace in France. 4 Johannes Gutenberg 1 The first Italian poem Divine Comedy 5 Niccolò Macchiavelli His work On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres provided theory for modern astronomy. 6 Francis I The Sistine Chapel Ceiling Ex 4: The Reformation (25 marks) Sorce 1: A painting showing Martin Luther Sorce 2: Martin Luther nailing the 95 points list 1. Source 1 is a (primary/ secondary source) (1mark) 2. Source 2 is a (primary/ secondary source) (1mark) 4

5 3. What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source? (3marks) 4. What was the main theme (subject) of the 95 theses? (2 marks) 5. Source 2 shows Luther nail his 95 theses to the door of a Catholic Church. Why do you think he nailed it there. (3 marks) 6. The following terms are associated with the reformation. Explain them: (2x5 = 10 marks) i. Justification by faith ii. Indulgences 5

6 iii. Papal bull iv. Excommunicated v. Heretic 7. Mention TWO consequences of Luther s revolt against the Church. (4 marks) i. ii. 8. The Reformation spread across western Europe. Name ONE other leader of the Reformation. (1 mark) 6

7 Ex 6: Choose ONE of the following titles and answer each question in essay form on a separate sheet. (20 marks) The Renaissance: What do you understand by the term Renaissance? Give reasons why the Renaissance began in Italy? Mention the characteristics of Renaissance art? What contribution did the Renaissance Popes such as Julius II give to Rome at the time of the Renaissance? or Choose four of the following and write a paragraph about each of them. a) Leonardo Da Vinci b) Christopher Colombus c) Johannes Gutenberg d) Dante Alighieri e) Niccolò Macchiavelli f) Leonardo da Vinci g) John Calvin h) Michelangelo. 7

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