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[mrray13 30]

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents 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, Kansas, 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.

> >>

> >> 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,"

> >> "play," 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

> >> levy

> >

> > to

> >

> >> carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for

> >> incidentals?

> >> 5. Find the 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

> >> 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 of

> >

> > 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) Do we 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.' (HUH?)

> >> 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.

> >

> >>

> >> Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete. Gives the saying "he

> >

> > only

> >

> >> had an 8th grade education" a whole new meaning, doesn't it?!

> >>

yeah..i'd fail...

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[Supa_c 1]

I just skimmed it.

I know i would fail

[Jmac 24]

I knew most of those ...

But this isn't anything new ... The education system gets dumbed down more and more with each passing year ...

[davidfre21 0]

boobies

[dennisp 0]

i got a 97%, although i didnt do the composition. missed #5 in geography.

[CBFryman 2]

eh, im in the education system, the stuff they do teahc use 79.78523245348573284753984207539824573298457439873849263498673429867349857394857

3945834570928435798342593045* sqrt of Pi% of us will never use in our future jobs, which is why HS is better because it allows you to take classes you think will help you in the future where as in middle school all that bull chit is manditory...

i would pass it with ease but the geography and a good portion of the english stuff i will never use in Chemical engineering...