2019 FAIRFIELD METHODIST Sec 4NA Prelims

FAIRFIELD METHODIST SCHOOL (SECONDARY) PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS 2019 SECONDARY 4 NORMAL (ACADEMIC) HUMANITIES Paper 1 SOCIAL STUDIES 2175 / 01 (SS / Geography) 2176 / 01 (SS / History) Date: 7 August 2019 Time: 1 hour 45 minutes NAME: _________________________ ( ) CLASS: ________ ________________________________________________________________ READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer all parts of Question 1. Section B Answer both parts of Question 2. You are to tie section A and section B separately. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. This question paper consists of 7 printed pages, including the cover page. [Turn over

NAME: ___________________________ ( ) CLASS: ________ 2 FMS(S) Sec 4 Normal (Academic) Preliminary Exam 2019 Humanities Paper 1 Social Studies Section A (Source-Based Case Study) Question 1 is compulsory for all candidates. 1 Exploring Citizenship and Governance Study the Background Information and the sources carefully , and then answer all the questions. You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those sources which you are told to use. In answering the questions you should use your knowledge of the topic to help you interpret and evaluate the sources. 1 (a) Study Source A. What can you infer from the cartoon? Explain your answer. [5] (b) Study Source B. Why was the source published? Explain your answer. [6] (c) Study Sources C & D. Can Source C prove that Source D is wrong? Explain your answer. [7] (d) Study Sources E. How useful is the source as evidence that the USA is the cause of the Venezuelan crisis? Explain your answer. [7] (e) How far do the sources show that the Venezuelan government is responsible for the crisis? Explain your answer. [10]

NAME: ___________________________ ( ) CLASS: ________ 3 FMS(S) Sec 4 Normal (Academic) Preliminary Exam 2019 Humanities Paper 1 Social Studies Who is responsible for the Venezuelan Crisis? BACKGROUND INFORMATION Read this carefully. It may help you to answer some of the questions. Venezuela is a country on the northern coast of South America. Oil was discovered in the early 20th century, and today, Venezuela has the world's largest known oil reserves and has been one of the world's leading exporters of oil. Since the early 2000s, a socioeconomic and political crisis that began in Venezuela during the presidency of Hugo Chávez, has continued into the presidency of Nicolás Maduro. It is marked by hyperinflation *, widespread power outage, climbing hunger, disease, crime and death rates, and massive migration out of the country. The situation is the worst economic crisis in Venezuela's history. In addition, Venezuela also faced international restrictions, particularly from the U nited States. Since the early 2010s, the United States has employed sanctions as a policy tool in response to activities of the Venezuelan government. In early 2019 Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, approved of additional economic sanctions against the petroleum, gold, mining and banking industries of Venezuela. These restrictions led to the plunge in oil production in Venezuela. Supporters of Chávez and Maduro say that the problems result from an "economic war" on Venezuela and "falling oil prices, international sanctions, and the country's business elite". However, critics of the government say the cause is "years of economic mismanagement, and corruption" Is the Venezuelan government responsible for the crisis? Study the following sources to find out more. * A situation where the prices of goods and services rise uncontrollably over a defined time perio

NAME: ___________________________ ( ) CLASS: ________ 4 FMS(S) Sec 4 Normal (Academic) Preliminary Exam 2019 Humanities Paper 1 Social Studies Source A: A cartoonist’s view of Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro's regime. Source B: Comment from a Venezuelan citizen about the new economic reforms implemented by President Nicolás Maduro, published in The Spectator, a weekly published in the United Kingdom. ‘Everyone is terrified,’ says Paola Rodriguez, a 32-year-old Venezuelan citizen. ‘People cannot sleep. We do not know what is going to happen. It is too much to take in all at once.’ Even before the measures were introduced, the International Monetary Fund* was forecasting that the country’s hyperinflation could reach a million per cent by the end of the year (prices have been doubling every month at the moment). One economist says the reforms are like throwing a ‘bucket of petrol on a fire’. * an international organization, consisting of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world President Nicholas Maduro

NAME: ___________________________ ( ) CLASS: ________ 5 FMS(S) Sec 4 Normal (Academic) Preliminary Exam 2019 Humanities Paper 1 Social Studies Source C: Adapted from an article commenting on the causes of a widespread power outage in Venezuela. It was written for the The Nation Jacobin, a left-wing* publication in the United States of America. * The radical, reforming, or socialist section of a political party. Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, belongs to a right-wing political party. Source D: Adapted from a comment by an associate professor of political science and Latin American Studies at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, an American university. “Venezuela has long been dependent on oil revenues, and Hugo Chavez did not fundamentally alter that situation. Venezuela's crisis has been deepened by U.S. sanctions against the Venezuelan oil industry. In March, it also sanctioned the Venezuelan gold mining industry, and in April, i t also cut off the Central Bank of Venezuela's acce ss to U.S. currency and limited its ability to conduct international transactions, to put even more pressure upon Maduro's regime.” “Even before the rise of the oil industry Venezuela did not have a highly p roductive agricultural sector. Land was monopoli zed by a handful of powerful families, infrastructure was lacking and the country lacked a nationally integrated economy.” Available evidence suggests that the blackout was not caused by sabotage, but by the electric grid being pushed to the brink by years of increased use and a lack of investment and maintenance. Yet it is impossible to ignore the fact that US officials, and some within the Venezuelan opposition, appear to r elish the idea of increasing the suffering of ordinary Venezuelans as a way to generate more popular pressure against Maduro. It is not impossible to think that some US officials and opposition leaders would entertain ideas about sabotaging public in frastructure to discredit the government.

NAME: ___________________________ ( ) CLASS: ________ 6 FMS(S) Sec 4 Normal (Academic) Preliminary Exam 2019 Humanities Paper 1 Social Studies Source E: Data from Statistica, a leading German online portal for statistics, which makes data collected by market and opinion research institutes and data derived from the economic sector. Acknowledgement: Source A: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/52236 Source B: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/venezuelas-great-socialist-experiment-has-brought-a-country-to-its- knees/ Source C: https://w