# History Grade 11 P1 November Mock Exam 2 2026 QP (Eng) > Grade 11 History Paper 1 question paper from the November Mock Exam 2 2026 (English), 9 pages. 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Read it free online on the page above; download the PDF from there. ## Document text Text extracted from the PDF. Layout, diagrams and tables may not survive extraction. ### Page 1 Mock hlayiso mock exams Practice Series: Grade 11 Exam Preparation WWW.HLAYISO.COM NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 11 HISTORY P1 NOVEMBER EXAMINATION 2026 (MOCK) MARKS: 150 TIME: 3 hours This question paper consists of 9 pages and an addendum of 12 pages. Copyright reserved Please turn over ### Page 2 History/P1 2 Hlayiso/Gr 11 Mock 2026 NSC Mock INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION 1. This question paper consists of SECTION A and SECTION B based on the prescribed content framework in the CAPS document. SECTION A: SOURCE-BASED QUESTIONS QUESTION 1: COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA: 1900–1940 QUESTION 2: CAPITALISM IN THE USA: 1900–1940 QUESTION 3: IDEAS OF RACE IN THE LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES SECTION B: ESSAY QUESTIONS QUESTION 4: COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA: 1900–1940 QUESTION 5: CAPITALISM IN THE USA: 1900–1940 QUESTION 6: IDEAS OF RACE IN THE LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES 2. SECTION A consists of THREE source-based questions. Source material that is required to answer these questions can be found in the ADDENDUM. 3. SECTION B consists of THREE essay questions. 4. Answer THREE questions as follows: 4.1 At least ONE must be a source-based question and at least ONE must be an essay question. 4.2 The THIRD question may be either a source-based question or an essay question. 5. You are advised to spend at least ONE hour per question. 6. When answering the questions, you should apply your knowledge, skills and insight. 7. You will be disadvantaged by merely rewriting the sources as answers. 8. Number the answers correctly according to the numbering system used in this question paper. 9. Write neatly and legibly. Copyright reserved Please turn over ### Page 3 History/P1 3 Hlayiso/Gr 11 Mock 2026 NSC Mock SECTION A: SOURCE-BASED QUESTIONS Answer at least ONE question, but not more than TWO questions, in this section. The source material that is required to answer these questions is contained in the ADDENDUM. QUESTION 1: HOW DID SOVIET ECONOMIC POLICIES CHANGE RUSSIA BETWEEN 1918 AND 1928? Study Sources 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and answer the questions that follow. 1.1 Refer to Source 1A. 1.1.1 Define the term War Communism in your own words. (1 x 2) (2) 1.1.2 List THREE measures, from the source, that were introduced under War Communism. (3 x 1) (3) 1.1.3 Why do you think Lenin regarded these emergency measures as necessary in 1918? (2 x 2) (4) 1.1.4 Using the information in the source and your own knowledge, explain why the forced requisitioning of grain led to a fall in agricultural production. (2 x 2) (4) 1.1.5 Name the leader of the peasant revolt in Tambov province, according to the source. (1 x 1) (1) 1.2 Read Source 1B. 1.2.1 When, according to the source, did Red Army troops storm the Kronstadt naval base? (1 x 1) (1) 1.2.2 Quote evidence from the source which shows that the Kronstadt sailors had supported the Bolsheviks in 1917. (1 x 2) (2) 1.2.3 Comment on why the Kronstadt Rising alarmed Lenin and the Bolshevik leaders. (2 x 2) (4) 1.2.4 Define the concept commanding heights of the economy in the context of the New Economic Policy. (1 x 2) (2) 1.2.5 Name TWO ways, according to the source, in which the NEP allowed a return to private enterprise. (2 x 1) (2) 1.3 Study Source 1C. 1.3.1 How many million tonnes of steel, according to the table, were produced in 1921? (1 x 1) (1) 1.3.2 Explain what the table reveals about the recovery of the Russian economy between 1921 and 1926. (1 x 2) (2) 1.3.3 Comment on the limitations of this table for a historian researching the impact of the NEP on the lives of ordinary Russians. (1 x 2) (2) 1.4 Refer to Sources 1A and 1C. Explain how the information in Source 1C supports the evidence in Source 1A regarding the impact of War Communism on the Russian economy. (2 x 2) (4) Copyright reserved Please turn over ### Page 4 History/P1 4 Hlayiso/Gr 11 Mock 2026 NSC Mock 1.5 Consult Source 1D. 1.5.1 Identify TWO groups, according to the source, who prospered under the NEP. (2 x 1) (2) 1.5.2 Explain what was meant by the ‘scissors crisis’ of 1923. (1 x 2) (2) 1.5.3 What do you think Bukharin hoped to achieve when he urged the peasants to ‘enrich yourselves’? (1 x 2) (2) 1.5.4 Using the information in the source and your own knowledge, explain why Stalin abandoned the NEP in 1928. (2 x 2) (4) 1.6 Using the information in the relevant sources and your own knowledge, write a paragraph of about SIX lines (about 60 words) explaining how Soviet economic policies changed Russia between 1918 and 1928. (6) [50] Copyright reserved Please turn over ### Page 5 History/P1 5 Hlayiso/Gr 11 Mock 2026 NSC Mock QUESTION 2: HOW FAR DID ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL IMPROVE THE LIVES OF ORDINARY AMERICANS IN THE 1930s? Study Sources 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D and answer the questions that follow. 2.1 Read Source 2A. 2.1.1 How many states, according to the source, did Roosevelt win in the presidential election of 1932? (1 x 1) (1) 2.1.2 Define the term segregation in the context of the USA in the 1930s. (1 x 2) (2) 2.1.3 List THREE ways, from the source, in which African Americans were discriminated against under the New Deal. (3 x 1) (3) 2.1.4 Why do you think Roosevelt refused to support a federal law against lynching? (2 x 2) (4) 2.1.5 Using the information in the source and your own knowledge, explain why most African American voters supported Roosevelt in the election of 1936, even though many New Deal programmes discriminated against them. (2 x 2) (4) 2.2 Study Source 2B. 2.2.1 Explain the messages conveyed by the photograph and the information below it. (2 x 2) (4) 2.2.2 How much of a CCC worker’s monthly pay, according to the information below the photograph, was sent home to his family? (1 x 1) (1) 2.2.3 Explain the usefulness of this photograph to a historian researching the impact of the New Deal on unemployed young Americans. (2 x 2) (4) 2.3 Read Source 2C. 2.3.1 Name TWO reform measures, from the source, that were introduced in 1935. (2 x 1) (2) 2.3.2 Define the term social security in your own words. (1 x 2) (2) 2.3.3 Quote evidence from the source which shows that the AAA harmed tenant farmers and sharecroppers. (1 x 2) (2) 2.3.4 Explain why many business leaders and wealthy Americans opposed the New Deal. (2 x 2) (4) 2.3.5 What, do you think, made Huey Long’s ‘Share Our Wealth’ movement popular among poor Americans? (1 x 2) (2) Copyright reserved Please turn over ### Page 6 History/P1 6 Hlayiso/Gr 11 Mock 2026 NSC Mock 2.4 Consult Source 2D. 2.4.1 In which year, according to the graph, was unemployment the lowest? (1 x 1) (1) 2.4.2 Explain the trend in unemployment shown in the graph between 1933 and 1937. (1 x 2) (2) 2.4.3 Using Source 2C and your own knowledge, comment on why unemployment increased in 1938. (1 x 2) (2) 2.5 Refer to Sources 2A and 2C. Explain how the evidence in Source 2A differs from the information in Source 2C regarding who benefited from the reforms of the Second New Deal. (2 x 2) (4) 2.6 Using the information in the relevant sources and your own knowledge, write a paragraph of about SIX lines (about 60 words) explaining how far Roosevelt’s New Deal improved the lives of ordinary Americans in the 1930s. (6) [50] Copyright reserved Please turn over ### Page 7 History/P1 7 Hlayiso/Gr 11 Mock 2026 NSC Mock QUESTION 3: HOW DID NAZI RACIAL POLICIES EXCLUDE JEWS FROM GERMAN SOCIETY BETWEEN 1933 AND 1939? Study Sources 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D and answer the questions that follow. 3.1 Refer to Source 3A. 3.1.1 Define the term Aryan in the context of Nazi racial ideology. (1 x 2) (2) 3.1.2 What proportion of the German population, according to the source, was Jewish in 1933? (1 x 1) (1) 3.1.3 List THREE measures, from the source, that were taken against Jews in 1933. (3 x 1) (3) 3.1.4 Explain why the Nazis insisted that the Jews were a race and not a religious group. (2 x 2) (4) 3.1.5 Why do you think the Nazis taught ‘race science’ to German schoolchildren? (1 x 2) (2) 3.2 Study Source 3B. 3.2.1 Name the TWO laws, according to the source, that were announced at Nuremberg on 15 September 1935. (2 x 1) (2) 3.2.2 How, according to the table, was a person with three Jewish grandparents classified? (1 x 1) (1) 3.2.3 Explain how the Nuremberg Laws took away the rights of German Jews. (2 x 2) (4) 3.2.4 Comment on why the Nazis used the religion of a person’s grandparents to decide whether that person was Jewish. (2 x 2) (4) 3.3 Read Source 3C. 3.3.1 Why, according to the source, did Herschel Grynszpan shoot Ernst vom Rath? (1 x 1) (1) 3.3.2 Quote evidence from the source which suggests that Kristallnacht was organised by the Nazi state and was not a spontaneous outburst of public anger. (1 x 2) (2) 3.3.3 List THREE consequences of Kristallnacht, from the source, for the Jewish community. (3 x 1) (3) 3.3.4 Explain why the Nazi government ordered the Jewish community to pay a fine of one billion Reichsmarks after Kristallnacht. (2 x 2) (4) Copyright reserved Please turn over ### Page 8 History/P1 8 Hlayiso/Gr 11 Mock 2026 NSC Mock 3.4 Consult Source 3D. 3.4.1 How many Jews, according to the graph, emigrated from Germany in 1939? (1 x 1) (1) 3.4.2 Using the information in the graph and the note below it, as well as your own knowledge, explain why many German Jews did not emigrate between 1933 and 1937. (2 x 2) (4) 3.4.3 Explain the limitations of this graph for a historian researching the experiences of German Jews between 1933 and 1939. (1 x 2) (2) 3.5 Refer to Sources 3C and 3D. Explain how the information in Source 3D supports the evidence in Source 3C regarding the impact of Kristallnacht on German Jews. (2 x 2) (4) 3.6 Using the information in the relevant sources and your own knowledge, write a paragraph of about SIX lines (about 60 words) explaining how Nazi racial policies excluded Jews from German society between 1933 and 1939. (6) [50] Copyright reserved Please turn over ### Page 9 History/P1 9 Hlayiso/Gr 11 Mock 2026 NSC Mock SECTION B: ESSAY QUESTIONS Answer at least ONE question, but NOT more than TWO questions, in this section. Your essay should be about THREE pages long. QUESTION 4: COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA: 1900–1940 – STALIN’S FIVE-YEAR PLANS ‘Stalin’s Five-Year Plans turned the Soviet Union into a major industrial power by 1939, but the ordinary people of the Soviet Union paid a terrible price for this achievement.’ Do you agree with this statement? Use relevant historical evidence to support your line of argument. [50] QUESTION 5: CAPITALISM IN THE USA: 1900–1940 – THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ‘The Great Depression did not affect all Americans in the same way between 1929 and 1933.’ Critically discuss this statement with reference to the experiences of industrial workers, farmers, African Americans, Mexican Americans and women. [50] QUESTION 6: IDEAS OF RACE IN THE LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES – EUGENICS IN NAZI GERMANY ‘The Nazis turned the pseudo-science of eugenics into state policy and persecuted not only the Jews but every group that they regarded as a threat to the “purity” of the German nation.’ Critically discuss this statement with reference to the treatment of people with disabilities, the Roma and Sinti, and Black Germans in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. 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