8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS - 1895
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This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, KS. It was taken
from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by the
Salina Journal.
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. per bu., 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 m?
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, and 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 and 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, super.
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 N.A.
5. Name and describe the following:
Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, 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.
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