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Something to ponder.
This is a hoax: <A
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: Wednesday, June
11, 2003 2:49 AM
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Hasn't technology taken us to new heights in education over
the years???Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and
such stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out.
Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?This is the
eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA. It was taken from the
original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and
Library in Salina, KS, and reprinted by the Salina Journal.The exam
took six hours to complete. Gives the saying "s/he only had an 8th grade
education" a whole new meaning!8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS
-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 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 50cts/bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?4. District
No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levyto 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 and18 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) [I don't even know what this is!]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 the 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 the inclination of
the earth.
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