SOCIAL STUDIES - PAPER 1

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

This test has 40 questions. You have 1 hour and 10 minutes to answer them. Each question has four possible answers: (A), (B), (C), (D).Read each question carefully, then choose the correct answer.Shade the circle with the letter, (A). (B), (C) or (D) that matches your answer for each question. If you want to change your answer, erase it completely before you fill in your new choice.If you try a question and find that you cannot answer it, go on to the next one. You may return to that question later. 1. Which of the following phrases best defines the term ‘family’?

A) Friends sharing the same house

B) Students living in a rented apartment

C) People related by blood living in the same house

D) Members of a service club living and working together

2. Which of the following activities is not usually asso ciated with the Amerindians in Guyana?

A) Body painting/art B) Cooking pepperpot C) Making nibbi baskets D) Dancing masquerade

3) Which of the following rivers separates Guyana from its eastern continental neighbour?

A) Ireng B) Takutu C) Amakura D) Corentyne

4) Which Of the following events usually follows a queh-queh?

A) A wedding

B) Burning of Holika C) Christening of a baby D) Sacrificing of animals

1 hour and 10 minutes

5) Read the scenario below and then answer Question 5.

Adam, who lives in Georgetown, Region 4, wants to invite his friend Mark, from Lethem, Region 9, to his birthday party.

Which of the following ways would allow Adam to invite Mark in the shortest time?

A) Mail B) Telegram C) Television D) Telephone

6) Which CARICOM country is still ruled by Britain?

(A) Guyana (B) Barbados (C) Montserrat (D) Grenada

7) Which South American country is Guyana’s eastern neighbour?

(A) Venezuela (B) Brazil

(C) Suriname (D) Chile

8) Which of the following is a group of continents?

A) Asia, China. Australia

B) Asia, Canada, Europe

C) Africa, Europe, Australia

D) New Zealand, Antarctica, Africa

Which of the following names is given to the imaginary

line which runs across the centre of the globe?

A) Equator

B) Prime Meridian C) Tropic of Cancer D) International Date Line

9. Read the caption below and then answer 10 and 11 10) Which of the following words best describes the schoolboy’s action?

A) Caring B) Defacing (C) Protecting (D) Decorating

11) How can the schoolboy use his talent to promote positive attitudes in his school?

A) Writing hateful slogans

B) Splashing paint on the floor

(C) Painting a mural on the school wall (D) Drawing pictures of gang members

12) Which of the following is an environmentally safe method of waste disposal?

A) Burning

B) Burying

C) Throwing in the sea D) Dumping in trenches

Study the caption below and then answer and 14. 13) The words in the caption above are known as the

A) B) C) D)

14) The words in the caption are depicted on Guyana’s.

A) B) C) D)

One People, One Nation, One Destiny

flag. motto. pledge. national anthem.

national flag. coat of arms. national pledge. presidential arm.

15) If the national anthem is played before a cricket match starts, then the spectators should

A) sit quietly.

B) sit at attention. C) stand at attention. D) speak to their friends.

16) Which item on the Guyana Coat of Arms shows that the country was once a colony ruled by a monarch?

A) B) C)

Shield Helmet Pickaxe

Questions

Questions 13

D)

Headdress

17) Which of the following groups of villages in Guyana was established by the East Indian inden tured immigrants?

A) Victoria, Ithaca B) Orealla, Timehri C) Cane Grove, Calcutta D) Belladrum, Hopetown

18) Which of the following observances does not take place in the month of May in Guyana?

A) B) C) D)

Arrival Day Labour Day Republic Day Independence Day

Study the picture below that shows an economic activity and then answer Questions 19 AND 20. 19) In which natural region is this economic activity done on a large scale?

(A) Highland Region

(B) Low Coastal Plain

(C) Interior Savannahs

(D) Hilly Sand and Clay Region

20) In which of the following industries does this activ ity take place?

A) B) C) D)

Study the chart below that outlines the features of Guyana’s natural regions and then answer Questions 21 and 22. 21)

Rice Sugar Timber Bauxite

A) I B) II C) III D) IV

22)

Which feature is best suited for sugar cane cultivation?

Which natural region has the features listed in I?

A) Highland Region

B) Low Coastal Plain C) Interior Savannahs

D) Hilly Sand and Clay Region