This is PART of the exam requiring a passing grade before students were permitted to graduate from the EIGHTH GRADE in 1895, Saline County, Kansas. I obtained this from a Rowan County List member. I am not too sure I could come up with all the correct answers to the exam questions. It definitely sheds different light on the education for the time period. Enjoy... Cindy 8th Grade final exam, Saline County, Kansas, 1895 Geography: 1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend. 2. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall, and Orinoco. 3. Why is the Atlantic coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude? Arithmetic: 1. A wagon box is 2 feet deep, 10 feet long, and 3 feet wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? 2. Find bank discount of $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. 3. How many acres are in a square farm, the distance around which is 640 rods. United States History: 1. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. 2. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe? 3. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865. Anatomy: 1. Where are the saliva, gastric juice, and bile secreted? What is the use of each in digestion? Orthography: 1. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocate, dipthong, cognate letters, linguals? 2. Give four substitutes for caret "u." 3. Use the following correctly in sentences: Cite, site, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.