[2ndDivisionVet]

Take this 1931 8th grade test (you will probably flunk)
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/history/take-this-1931-8th-grade-gradu.html

Examination for Common-School Diplomas.

RURAL SCHOOLS.

Saturday, April 6, 1918.
http://www.kansasheritage.org/orsh/library/final_exam.html

1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools
http://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam1912.html

[AnAmericanMother]

That's a pretty fair test.

The history is straightforward, so is the literature, but heavy on the New England School (I had never HEARD of Maud Muller, though. I looked it up, it's Whittier (who has gone out of fashion now) and it contains the catchphrase "the saddest words of tongue or pen. . ." Always knew that, never knew where it came from. But now I know.

I would have to really use up a bunch of paper on the math, and there are some obsolete concepts, but again it seems fair.