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“1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters.”

Start of sentence,
Proper Nouns,

2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications.

3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph

Verse - line length within a stanza of poetry.

Stanzas are sections usually between 4 to 8 verses of poetry that tend to express one thought, paragraph are divisions of prose that are usually about seven sentences long.

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.

Punctuation is

7 – 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Yesterday I saw my dog, sitting up on my porch, waiting for me to feed him; just as he always had done for many, many years. He’s a black lab, with a shiny black coat and a soft mouth. You could hold him and lead him by his mouth and he would not hurt you when he closed his mouth on your hand. He was a fantastic companion for a young boy growing up in the country.

When I went up to go and feed him, it took me awhile to find him some food. I managed to find him an egg which I first ground up with a whisk and then placed in a light, metal bowl which clanged when I dropped it on the porch. I’m not sure why I couldn’t find his food. We usually kept it in the same place in the closet for years. When I went to place the bowl, my dog was gone! Then I remembered, I haven’t had a dog in some 4 years, not since Parsec passed on. Was that him?

Arithmetic (Time,1 hour 15 minutes)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.

Brackets, Exponent, Division Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction are performed in this order in arithmatic.

2. A wagon box is 2 ft. Deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. Wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?

Would have to look up a bushel.

3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. For tare?

Would have to look up a bushel.

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?

7 at 50 is 350. Incidentals are 104 for 454 dollars total. Would work out to be a levy of 454/35000. 1 percent is 350. .1 is 35 dollars. You would require 1.3 percent on the levy to obtain sufficient income to provide for the school.

5. Find the cost of 6,720 lbs. Coal at $6.00 per ton.

Would have to look up measure of a ton.

6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.

512.60 at 1.07. 1 percent would be 5.126 per month. 7 would be 35. .126 is about .125 or 1/8th so 7 would be 7/8ths.

Monthly charge of 512.6 is 35 and 7/8th dollars a month.

Daily charge would be 1/30th of 35 7/8ths. = 35/30 7/240 = 7/6 7/240 x 18 = 7 (18) / 6 7(18)/ 240 70 + 56 = 126/6 126/240 =

Total interest then would be 35 7/8ths (7) + 31 21/40 = 210 + 35 + 49/8 + 31 + 21/40 = 245 + 31 + 49/8 + 21/40 = 276 + 200/40 + 72/40 + 21/40 = 276 + 293/40.

276 293/40 + 0.007 + 7/1000 x 18/30 = 276 293/40 + 126/30000

= 276 + 293/40 + 42/10000 = 276 + 293/40 + 21/5000 = 276 + 293 (500) + 21 (4) / 20000 = 100000 + 45000 + 1500 + 84 /20000 = 276 + 146584/20000 = 276 + 73292/10000 = 276 + 7.3292 = 283.3292 dollars total. Exactly.

Unless it compounds monthly? Then I’d have to use my compounding tables.

7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft.. Long at $20 per metre?

Metre at 3.14 feet. 20/ metre is 20 / 3.14 board foot. 16x1 = 16 board feet. 16 x 20 = 320/3.14 = 32000/314 = 16000/157 x40 = 160000/157 + 64000/157 = 224000/157 exactly.

Little bit over 100 dollars. 16000/160 = 100, 16000/157 is about 102/board not doing the long division, and 4080 dollars total.

8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.

300 at 10 is 30 per month. 90 days is 3 months = 39

9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance of which is 640 rods?

Not sure Rods to acres.

10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

Never written a promissory note. The other two I can.

U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided

Settlement, Revolutionary, Manifest Destiny, Civil War, Gilded Age, First World war, Second world war, Vietnam, Cold war, Iraq.

2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus

In 1492, Columbus discovered what he believed were the Indies by choosing to sail west rather than east, relying on the principles established by Ptolemy in his almagest that the world was round. He was ignorant of the measure of eratosthenes, and so tried to convince European Monarchs that he could reach the indies by sailing to the west. Isabella approved and so Columbus sailed for Spain. He did not find the Indies (as Isabella knew), but found Hispaniola, and New Spain. He also did not sight America proper, which was discovered later. He would go on to start the Spanish colonial empire in America.

3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.

America didn’t like paying for their own troops without representation in the House of Lords. Britain was unwilling to provide direct representation, instead offering indirect governance under the Crown. The colonists preferring their own rule to the Crown, revolted. Britain initially opposed revolution, but after the defeat at Yorktown and war with France - decided that trade and friendship was preferable to pursuing a war to subjugate the Americas. And so France is the friend of America and America has her statue of Liberty provided by France.

4. Show the territorial growth of the United States

13 colonies, founded by Britain along the coast of the Appalachians. Under Quebec act - and after revolution - the US claimed territory from the Appalachians to the Ohio River. Won in the revolutionary war. Bought the North West purchase, land above the ohio river from Great Britain in 1787. Bought the Louisiana Purchase of roughly 1/3rd of the entire US territory from France and Napoleon in 1803. Land consisted of the entire drainage basin of the Mississippi. Bought Spanish Florida from Spain. Reached the Pacific with the purchase of Oregon in 1842. Texas chose to join the United states in 1845, after successfully rebelling from Mexico in the Texas revolution in 1836. Followed by Guadaloupe Hildago, where Mexico ceded what would become the entire western United States in 1848.

From there, you have Alaska purchase in 1867, as well as the conquest of Guam, the Marianas, the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico from Spain in the Spanish American war. Plus the Island of Hawaii was taken from the King in 1886.

5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas

It’s flat.

6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.

Yorktown, Bunker hill and

7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?

Eli Witney, inventer of the Cotton Gin. Howe, Julia Ward Howe writer of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Fulton - steamboat inventor. Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Morse - Morse code and telegraph. Penn - Colonial founder of the colony of Pennsylvania, “Penn’s woods”.

8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.

1865 - Civil war.

1849 - Guadaloupe Hildago.

1800 - Adams administration?

1620 - Plymouth Rock.

1607 - Jamestown

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.