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<blockquote data-quote="DS" data-source="post: 476680" data-attributes="member: 556"><p><span style="color: #000080">Moreluck sent this eye opener.................</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000080">Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated that they only had an <strong>8th grade education</strong>? </span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">Well, check this out. - - - </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">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. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>8th GRADE FINAL EXAM</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><u>Grammar (Time, one hour) </u></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. </span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">2 . Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no Modifications. 3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. </span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of lie, lay and run </span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case. </span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation. </span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">7. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><u>Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)</u> </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">2. A wagon box is 2 ft deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">50cts/bushel, deducting 1050lbs. for tare? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">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? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">6. Fi nd the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per meter? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">8 Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">around which is 640 rods? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.</span></span><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><u>U. S. History (Time, 45 minutes)</u></strong> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">1. Give the epochs into which U. S. History is divided. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus . </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">4. Show the territorial growth of the United States . </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas . </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton , Bell , Lincoln , Penn, and Howe? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong><u>Orthography (Time, one hour)</u></strong> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, sub vocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">exceptions under each rule. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">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. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>Geography (Time, one hour)</strong> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas ? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">4. Describe the mountains of North America . </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia , Odessa , Denver , </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">Manitoba , Hecla , Yukon , St. Helena , Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall &Orinoco. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">7. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-size: 10px">10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DS, post: 476680, member: 556"] [COLOR=#000080]Moreluck sent this eye opener.................[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080]Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated that they only had an [B]8th grade education[/B]? [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]Well, check this out. - - - [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]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. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2][B]8th GRADE FINAL EXAM[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2][U]Grammar (Time, one hour) [/U][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]2 . Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no Modifications. 3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of lie, lay and run [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]7. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2][B][U]Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)[/U] [/B][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]2. A wagon box is 2 ft deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]50cts/bushel, deducting 1050lbs. for tare? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]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? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]6. Fi nd the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per meter? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]8 Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]around which is 640 rods? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.[/SIZE][/COLOR][COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2][B][U]U. S. History (Time, 45 minutes)[/U][/B] [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]1. Give the epochs into which U. S. History is divided. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus . [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]4. Show the territorial growth of the United States . [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas . [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton , Bell , Lincoln , Penn, and Howe? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2][B][U]Orthography (Time, one hour)[/U][/B] [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, sub vocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]exceptions under each rule. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]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. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2][B]Geography (Time, one hour)[/B] [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas ? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]4. Describe the mountains of North America . [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia , Odessa , Denver , [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]Manitoba , Hecla , Yukon , St. Helena , Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall &Orinoco. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]7. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude? [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000080][SIZE=2]10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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