GARDEN HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS III
Annual Examination 2018
History
Time: 2 hours Full Marks: 50
1. What did Alexander learn as a prince? Give an account of his conquest of
Persia. 2+5=7
2. Answer the following in brief: 6 × 3 = 18
(a) What did Ashoka do for the welfare of the people?
(b) What did Socrates and his friends talk about in the evenings at the
marketplace?
(c) What happened after the Mother Wolf went close to the twins?
(d) Why did Ashoka appoint special officers?
(e) What did Socrates tell the Assembly at his trial?
(f) Why was King Amulius afraid when he heard of the birth of the twins?
3. Name / Mention: 10 × 1 = 10
(a) The former name of Taxila
(b) The place where games were played in Athens
(c) The birds which Romulus saw flying across the sky above his hill
(d) The people who had valiantly defended their country against Chandragupta
Maurya
(e) The place where Alexander was brought up
(f) The river on which stands the city of Rome
(g) The art that Socrates learnt from his father
(h) Ashoka’s other name
(i) The country that Alexander conquered before Persia
(j) The person who gave Socrates the cup of poison
(2)
4. Fill in the blanks: 10 × 1 = 10
(a) Aeneas sailed around ____________ and landed on the coast of Italy.
(b) Ashoka’s ____________ carried the teachings of the Buddha to Sri Lanka.
(c) ____________ was a great temple built for the goddess Athena.
(d) Alexander gave a great deal of treasure to his old teacher, ____________.
(e) One day, a ____________ who was passing by, picked up the twins and
took them home.
(f) A stupa is a building meant to hold the ____________ of the Buddha or of
a saint.
(g) Socrates was tried before the ____________ in the Assembly.
(h) Bucephalus had a white star on his ____________ .
(i) Romulus and Remus became ____________ of their village and people
listened to what they said.
(j) Ashoka was already an ____________ ruler when he ascended the throne.
5. Match and pair: 5×1=5
(a) 272 BCE (i) ruler of Alba Longa
(b) Athens (ii) Ashoka ascended the throne
(c) Amulius (iii) Prakrit
(d) 326 BCE (iv) Greece
(e) edicts (v) Alexander entered India
