Final 8Th Grade Exam Circa 1895

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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 , 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 hour 15

minutes)

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

3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel,

deducting 1,050 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 6,720

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. 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?!

Also shows you how poor our

education system has become and,

NO, I don't have the

answers!