Check www.truthorfiction.com and decide for yourself if this exam for "eighth graders". I think not. On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:42:17 -0700 Ginaburningsky@aol.com writes: > >    Eighth grade Education > >Are you feeling pretty smart? Take a look back to 1895... >Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated >that >they only had an eighth grade education? Could any of us have passed >the >eighth grade in 1895? This is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 >Salina, Kansas, USA. It was taken from the original document on file >at >the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas >and >reprinted by the Salina Journal. > >8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas, 1895 > >Grammar (Time, one hour) >1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. >2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no >modifications. >3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. >4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, >lie, lay and run. 5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case. >6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation. >7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you >understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. > >Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours) >1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. >2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many >bushels of wheat will it hold? >3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. >bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare? >4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary >levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 >for incidentals? 5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton. >6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. > >7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 >per metre? >8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. >9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance >around which is 640 rods? >10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt > >U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes) >1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided. >2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. >3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. >4. Show the territorial growth of the United States. >5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. >6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. >7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, >Penn, >and Howe? >8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, >1849, 1865. > >Orthography (Time, one hour) >1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, >etymology, syllabication? >2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? >3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, >subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? >4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'. >5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two >exceptions >under each rule. >6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. >7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: >Bi, >dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup >8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following and name >the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, >rise, blood, fare, last. 9. Use the following correctly in sentences, >cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, >rays. >10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation >by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. > >Geography (Time, one hour) >1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? >2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas? >3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? >4. Describe the mountains of North America. >5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, >Manitoba, >Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco. >6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. >7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each. >8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same >latitude? >9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the >sources of rivers. >10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the >earth. >That gives the saying of an early 20th century person that "he only >had >an eighth-grade education" a whole new meaning! > >please visit my website at www.burningskyenterprises.com >home - http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/BurningSkyhomepage.html > >SoCalPowwows - >http://hometown.aol.com/ginaburningsky/BurningSkySoCalpowwows.html >family album - >http://www.geocities.com/ginaburningsky4/burningskyent_genealogy.html > > > > > > > > > >==== GAMURRAY Mailing List ==== >--- Author Retains Copyright --- >-- Copyright 2001 Author -- All Rights Reserved >Post to List: GAMURRAY-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com >Unsubscribe request To: GAMURRAY-L-request@rootsweb.com >ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! 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