Do you think you can pass an 8th grade test? Give it a try. Remember this is from 1900!
From the MC GUFFY READER, 1900
GRAMMAR SCHOOL EXAMINATION
EIGHTH GRADE
1899-1901
MATHEMATICS
(Solve ten of these problems, numbering those selected as they are numbered here. Solve by any mathematical process and give all the work.)
1. The difference between 2/5 and ½ of A’s money is ¾ of B’s money. They together have $55.
How much has each?
2. Multiply the sum of .o6 and ½ by the difference between 5/8 and .505 and divide the product by 3257.3.
3. What would be the cost of the lumber to build a three-board fence (6 boards) around a section of land at $20 per 31. Feet.
4. How many square yards in a 6 foot walk on two adjacent sides of a lot 60 by 150 feet? (Walk on outer border of lot.)
5. Divide $365.40 between A and B in the ratio of 2:7.
6. Draw a plot showing the position of S. ½ of S.W. ¼ of Sec. 13, T. 2 S., R. 3 W. How much land is here described?
7. A post 3 ft. High casts a shadow 4 ½ ft. Long. What is the height of a pole that casts a shadow 120 ft. Long?
8. An a" cube was molded into a sphere. Find diameter of sphere.
9. J.B. Williams had business transactions with T.C. Collins as follows. On Jan. 3, Williams bought on account 2 prs. Shoes at $3; hat $2; Feb 7 he paid cash $8; Feb 14 he bought suits of clothes $20. And paid one cord of wood $6 and cash $13. Write out such a statement as Collins should send Williams if demanded.
10. A note for $300 bears interest at 8 per cent per annum. It is dated Nov. 3 1897 and is due March 12, 1899. On its back is endorsed July 15, 1898 paid $200. Dec 8, 1898 paid $150. What sum will be due at maturity?
11. Find the longest diagonal of a room that is 30 by 50 by 13 feet.
12. (a) 15x - 20 + 20x - 35 Find x. (MC be careful on this one)
(b) 7x - 4y + 16
4x + 7y = 37 Find x and y.
13. What is the area of a circle circumscribed about a regular hexagon one of whose sides measures about 8 inches long?
14. A city assessed at $3,500,000 raises by taxes $28,000. What taxes does a man pay whose property is assessed at $2,000?
15. A man paid $580 for a herd of cows and calves containing 100 animals. For the calves he paid $3 per herd and for the cows $10 per herd. How many of each in the herd?
16. A note, face $250, interest 1 per cent. Per month, dated Nov. 1 1896, due Sept. 10, 1899. Find bank discount of March 4, 1899, at 8 per cent, per annum.
17. Find the area of the hexagon described in question 12.
18. (a) Bought for $2 and sold for $6.50. Find the per cent of gain.
(b) Bought for 50 cents and sold for 10 cents. Find per cent of lose.
English
Time limit-30 minutes
"Now recommended the reign of rest and affection and stiffness.
Day with its burden and heat had departed, and twilight descending.
Brought back the evening star to the sky, and the herds to the homestead.
Pawing the ground they came, and testing their necks on each other,
And with their nostrils distended inhaling the freshness of evening.
Foremost, bearing the bell. Evangelinea beautiful heifer,
Proud of her snow-white hide, and the ribbon that waved from her collar.
Quietly paces and slow, as if conscious of human affection.
Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside.
Where was their favorite pasture. Behind them followed the watch-dog.
Patient, full of importance, and grand in the pride of his instinct.
Walking from side to side with a lordly air, and superbly
Waving his bushy tail, and urging forward the stragglers:
Regent of flocks was he when the shepherd slept; their protector.
When from the forest at night, through the starry silence, the wolves howled.
Late, with the rising moon, returned the wants from the marshes.
Laden with briny hay, that filled the air with its odor.
Cheerily neighed the steeds, with dew on their manes and fetlocks,
While sloft on their shoulders the wooden and ponderous saddles,
Painted with brilliant dyes, and adorned with tassels of crimson,.
Nodded in bright array, the hollyhocks heavy with blossom.
Patiently stood the cows meanwhile, and yielded their udders.
Unto the milkmaids hand; whilst loud and in regular cadence
Into the sounding pails the foaming streamlets descended.
Lowing if cattle and peals of laughter were heard in the farm yard.
Echoed back by the barns. Anon they sank into stillness;
Heavily closed, with a jarring sound, the valves of the barn-doors,
Rattled with wooden bars, and all for a season was silent."
1. Parse the underscored words in the foregoing (10 credits)
2. Analyze or diagram the sentence beginning, "Late with the rising moon, returned. (10 credits)
3. Give the figures of speech in this selection ( 5 credits)
4. Define: regent, wains, fetlocks, ponderous, cadence. (5 credits)
5. Describe briefly the picture in this selection. Confine your description to twenty lines
(20 credits)
6. Write a biography of Longfellow. Quote not less than six lines from some American poet.
Scan two lines of your selection. (20 credits)
7. Who wrote: Among the Hills, One Hoss Shay, A Forest Hymn, The Day is Done, Psalm of Life, The Barefoot Boy, The Legend Beautiful, Bunker Hill Oration, Thanatopeis. (5 credits)
8. Name two American novelists, two poets, two essayists, two historians, two orators, and give
Approximately the time that each lived. (10 credits)
9. Define the second personal pronoun and write sentences to illustrate two different elements used as modifiers of the predicate. (5 credits)
10.Give sentences to illustrate the use of the participle in ing, the infinitive in ing, and a clause as subject of a sentence. (5 credits)
11. Give the peculiar meaning of the following words and illustrate each in a sentence ? expect, suspect (5 credits)
GEOGRAPHY
30 minute time limit
1. Draw a map of your own state. Make it the most complete and perfect in all respects that your ability and the time allowed permit. Include thereon all places, rivers, etc., that you can, giving the names where possible.
2. Name the states in which the following are found: 1) Source of the Mississippi 2) Source of the Missouri 3) Hudson River 4) Cleveland 5) Springfield 6) Atlanta 7) Tampa Bay 8) Leadville 9) Great Salt Lake 10) Nashville
3. Name the countries of South America with the capitol cities.
4. Name the countries of Europe with the capital cities.
5. Bound France. What can you say about its size, its agriculture productions, its religion? Name three rivers and three principal cities.
6. Bound Russia, and answer the same questions concerning it as are asked regarding France.
7. Compare climates and give reasons for difference: Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon, and Boston.
8. Name states or cities that excel in the following: Production of 1) coal 2) wheat 3) gold 4)oranges 5)lumber 6) tobacco 7) shoes 8) pottery 9) cloths 10) packed meats
Music
1. Write the following scales, placing sharps or flats where they belong: A, Bb, D and F
2. What is a scale? How many kinds are there?
3. Write the chromatic scale, ascending and descending.
4. Give three terms denoting slow time; two denoting fast time.
5. What is meant by common time? Triple time? Sextuple time?
Physiology
90 minute limit Lot of diagrams so work with me here.
1. Make a diagram of the eye. Show herein the different parts, naming them. What is the purpose, or function, or each of the different parts? Explain how an image is made on the back of the eye.
2. Make drawing of the stomach. Locate therein the openings into the stomach, and name them. Describe the lining of the stomach. Describe the structure of the walls of the stomach. What secretion is made by the stomach? What are its properties? What motions has the stomach?
3. Make a drawing of the vertebra. How many vertebra in the spinal column? What is the office of the spinal column? What uses are served by the different_______. What purpose of the peculiar shape of the vertebra? What is peculiar about the upper two vertebra?
4. Make a drawing of a tooth. What are its parts as seen as a whole? What are its parts considered as to internal structure? What is the purpose of each of the parts last mentioned? What conditions produce a toothache? How many teeth in first set? In second set? Show by diagram the arrangement of the teeth of the permanent set?
5. Define (1) artery (2) gland (3) ganglion (4) cerebrum (5) serous membrane (6) larynx
(7) bronchi (8) pulmonary (9) villi (10) parietal bone.
U. S. HISTORY
1. Why was slavery early abolished in the North and retained in the South?
2. Why in the early part of our history were States admitted in pairs?
3. What are the great political questions that have agitated the people of the United States?
4. (a) What constitutes the Executive cabinet (President’s cabinet) of the United States? (b) Give chief duties of at least four of the heads of departments of the cabinet.
5. What position does each of the following hold down and how was he chosen: Garret Hobart, T.B. Reed, C.H. Castle, N.M. White, Nelson A. Miles, Gov. Dewey, J.H. Choats?
6. What were the battles fought by Gen. Grant in his campaign in the Mississippi Valley?
7. Name in their order the various accessions of territory to the United States and tell how each was acquired. Give date of each cession.
8. Give cause and results of the French and Indian War.
9. Who was President when each of the following events occurred and give date of each: 1) Establishment of U. S. Bank 2) Battle of Mantiago de Cuba 3) The Mexican War 4) Passage of the Missouri Compromise Bill 5) Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill 6) Passage of the Embargo Act 7) Battle of Tippecanoe 8) Enactment of the Wilson Bill
ORTHOGRAPHY
30 minutes
1. Quotient 14. Charade
2. Relieve 15. Crystallize
3. Independent 16. Benefit
4. Control 17. Review
5. Complain 18. Receivable
6. Peculiar 19. Description
7. Necessary 20. Merchandise
8. Believe 21. Vegetable
9. Endeavor 22. Receded
10. Physical 23. Political
11. Geography 24. Arranging
12. Molest 25. Feudal
13. Commerce
1. (20 credits) Spell and give rule for spelling: Imagination, strangeness, controlling.
2. (30 credits) Analyze and define the following words and give meaning of all roots, prefixes and suffixes: Prefer, conference, euphonious, diffusion, malefactor, absolve.
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