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1. Parse the italicized words above.
2. Give a written analysis of A.
3. Diagram B.
4. Define declension and conjugation, and give examples of each.
5. Write complex sentences to the following subjects, and let the predicates be substantive clauses: Proposal, words, design.
ARITHMETIC.
1. A's interest in business is % more than B's. Their profits are $2,500, being 15 per cent. on their capital. What is the capital of each ?
2. Base of a pyramid is 20 ft. square, distance from corners to top is 50 ft. What is distance from center of base to top ?
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3. What is the equated time of payment of $500, due now, (Nov. 27th) ; $350, due Dec. 20, 1880, and $800, due Jan. 20, 1881 ?
4. Add 3.25, 2g, 1.05 ; multiply sum by 21% ; divide product by 1.03.
5. What sum of money will amount to $1,000 in four years at 10 per cent., in- terest compounded annually ?
6. How much earlier does the sun rise at Baltimore, which is 76°, 37' W., than at Cincinnati, which is 84°, 26' W. ?
7. A, B and C divide 160 acres of land. A is to have } of the entire value of the land at $100 per acre ; B 1% of the entire value at $75 per acre ; C } of entire value at $50 per acre. How many acres does each have ?
8. Correct solution of No. 7, grade 22 per cent., others 13 per cent. each.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Locate the following rivers, and state where each rises, in what direction it flows, and where it empties: Mackenzie's, Delaware, Yukon, Rhine, Seine, Congo, Nile, Jordan, Ganges and Murray.
2. Where and for what noted are St. Helena, Mt. of Olives, Lake Champlain, Red Sea, Lookout Mountain, and Moscow ?
3. Describe the country of Greece, its soil, climate, productions, government and religion.
4. Give an account of the troubles now existing between the people of Ireland and the English Government.
5. Describe the manner of electing the President of the United States.
6. Give a short statement of the history of the Jewish people.
7. Locate and describe the State of Ohio, its soil, climate, productions, rivers and chief towns.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. Define vowel, consonant, word, accent.
2. Analyze: Maxim, ferocious, bureau.
3. Spell correctly : Mesels, aree, ile, rumatism, mosk, seezed, lisenshus, ruth, corpusel, kristaline.
PAULDING COUNTY.
GRAMMAR. .
1. Correct in every respect the following : We thought it was him.
Man's chief end is to glorify god and enjoy him forever.
2. Analyze and parse the following : Our patriot forefathers! What think ye of these times ?
3. How would you parse orator in the following expressions ? To be an orator requires practice. To be thought an orator is pleasant. His being an orator gives him influence. His being thought an orator is strange.
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ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. When is C silent ? When is H silent ?
2. How many substitutes has Z ?
3. Tell which are substitutes, and for what substituted in the following example : Linguist, ocean, as, chicanery, busy.
4. Give the letters that are called linguals.
5. Analyze: Quadrangle and six.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Give a problem, together with its solution, using the principal mathematical signs.
2. Add § of a week, § of a day, § of an hour, and § of a minute, giving the result in integers.
3. A has $2450, § of his money + $500 is & of B's; what sum has B ?
4. What part of 5c. is § of 2c. ?
5. Multiply .09375 by 1 and 64 millionths.
6. In .005 of a year how many seconds ?
7. Sold a bushel of peas for $1, and gained 25 per cent .; purchased a bushel of barley for the dollar, and sold it at a loss of 25 per cent. ; what did I gain or lose ?
8. What is the square root of 1.008016 carried to 3 dec. places ?
9. What is the cube root of 13312053 ?
10. What are the solid contents of a globe 30 inches in diameter ?
GEOGRAPHY.
1. In what direction from the North pole is Novazembla ?
2. Name all the border states and territories in order, commencing with Wash- ington and ending with Oregon.
3. Name the three largest tributaries that empty into the Mississippi river from the East, also the three largest that empty into the same from the West.
4. Which is the farthest north, N. Y. City or Paris ?
5. Through what waters would a fish have to swim to go from Charloe to Pekin, China ?
6. Which has the longest daylight on the 21st day of June, New York or Con- stantinople ? Why ?
7. Are degrees of latitude and longitude of equal length ? If not, where do they differ, and how much ?
8. What city, if any, is the antipode of Columbus, O .? What is an antipode ?
9. What is the highest degree of latitude a place can have, and what is the highest degree of longitude any place can have, and will both be at the same point on the earth ?
10. Draw a map of any state in the Union, except Ohio.
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PERRY COUNTY.
ARITHMETIC.
1. If my retail gain is 33} per cent., and I sell at wholesale at 10 per cent. less than at retail, what is my gain per cent. at wholesale ?
2. If land be $1200 per acre, what will be the cost of a lot 180 feet long and 75 ft. wide ?
3. How do you find the amount for which you must give your note, in bank, in order to borrow $1,000 for 90 days, at 8 per cent. ?
4. A's income is 16 per cent. of his capital ; he is taxed 2} per cent. on his in- come and pays $20.04. What is his capital ?
5. ¿ of the time past noon equals 3 of the time to midnight ; what time is it ?
6. What length of rope will be required to reach from either corner of a square piece of ground containing 1 acre, to the top of a tree 80 ft. high standing in the center ?
7. If I sell § of an article for what & of it cost, what per cent. do I gain or lose ?
8. Twice A's money equals 3 times B's, and the interest at 7 per cent. for 1 year, 4 months, 24 days, of what they have, is $49; how much money has each ?
9. A and B can do a piece of work in 32 days, B and C in 23 days, and A and C in 26 days. How long will it take all to do the work ?
10. Explain the process of dividing one fraction by another, giving the reason for each operation.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. Give the meaning of each of the following: M. P., M. C., inst., ult., prox., att'y., 8 vo.
2. Define diphthong and digraph, and give example of each.
3. Form derivative words by using the prefixes ante, anti, dis, pre, and pro, and define them.
4. How many and what elementary sounds in the word phthisic ?
5. Spell correctly, fashun, judgement, stricknine, obleek, transhent, supersede, procedyur, mirical, pinacle, valees, financeer, coershun, lackrimal, mimicking, be- seege.
6. Define ten of the above words.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. Upon what does the value of a pupil's knowledge depend ?
2. Which is more important, the acquisition of knowledge or mental discipline ? Why?
3. What studies are best adapted to secure mental discipline ?
4. What faculty of the mind is most active in small pupils ?
5. Give three incentives to study.
GRAMMAR.
Give reasons for corrections you make.
Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ?
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Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of Death ?
1. Change the above to prose.
2. Change from interrogative to declarative.
3. Why do "flattery," "honor" and "death" commence with capital letters ? Parse italicized words below :
4. (a). You, he and I are here, (b). I know who is there. (c). I gave all that I had. (d). The book is mine. (e). Be it so.
5. False Syntax .- (a). I am tolerable well, I thank you. (b). I expect he has gone home. (c). What time does school take up? (d). Ice only forms during cold weather.
6. Give a synopsis of "teach," progressive form, indicative mode.
7. Define relative pronoun, comparative degree, and "redundant verb."
8. Map or analyze: In a menagerie at Brussels, there was a cell where a large lion, called Danco, used to be kept.
WRITING.
1. Make the principles you use.
2. Name the several movements in writing.
3. Analyze h, i, and C.
4. Leave a specimen of your writing.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Name and locate five important sea port cities of the United States.
2. Name and locate five important Peninsulas in Europe.
3. Give the physical features of Africa.
4. How would you go by water from Zanesville to Washington, D. C .?
5. What three important rivers rise in the Alps Mts., and into what do they flow, respectively ?
6. Name the five Great Powers of Europe; give their capitals and kinds of government.
7. Name and describe the three great plains of South America.
8. Define mathematical zone, and physical zone, and give the names of each kind.
9. Name the thirteen original states, and tell when our present form of govern- ment went into operation.
10. Name the races of mankind in the order of their civilization.
PIKE COUNTY.
GRAMMAR.
Time, 12 hours.
"Revenge ! REVENGE !" the Saxons cried,
The Gaels EXULTING shout replied,
Dispite the ELEMENTAL l'age,
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AGAIN they hurried to ENGAGE ;
But ERE they closed in desperate fight,
BLOODY with SPURRING came a KNIGHT,
Sprung from his horse, and from a crag,
Waved 'twixt the hosts a milk white FLAG.
1. Describe the above selection as to form and structure of its sentences.
2. The third line is an element of what kind and class, and modifies what ?
3. Decline the nouns in the first three lines.
4. Give a synopsis of the verb CAME in indicative mode.
5. How many and what are the elements of the third class in the above selection ? 6-10. Parse the ten words in SMALL CAPS.
Spell and define (number your words): Praktikel, invenshun, suitable, lubricate, enjin, deric, mukes, thertoo, polip, fulchrum, fosi, vulkenite, concreet, masheen, mekanikel, resipea, carben, velosipead, krisalite.
GEOGRAPHY.
Time, 1 hour.
1. Define oasis, ecliptic, bight and steppes. Give an example of each.
2. What are ocean currents, in what respect are they important, and what may be said of their influence upon climate ?
3. What are winds ? How are they beneficial ?
4. A's time is 1:20 P.M. at the same instant B's time is 11:20 A.M. Is A east or west of B, and how many degrees ?
5. What bodies of water are connected by Behring Strait, and which grand divisions are separated by it ?
6. Locate lake Chapala, the island of Man, Mt. Elbrooz and the Humboldt river.
7. What do the Greater Antilles comprise ?
8. Give the States that touch the great lakes, and give and locate the capital of each.
9. In what latitude and zone is a point 77° south of the Tropic of Cancer ?
10. How does California compare in area with Pennsylvania ?
ARITHMETIC.
Time, 12 hours. [No credit for mere answers; indicate your work].
1. If § of a yard of cloth cost $2, what will be the cost of 8-9 of a yard ?
2. If 11-12 of a farm is worth $1452, at $8 per acre, of how many acres does the farm consist ?
3. How many acres in a square field, the diagonal of which is one mile ?
4. The product of three equal factors is 1,092,727; what are the factors ?
5. Find the length of a minute-hand, whose extreme point moves over 3 inches in 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
6. What is the difference between the true and bank discount of $200 for 90 days at 6 per cent. ?
7. If § of A's money equals & of B's, and } of B's equals 2-5 of C's, and the interest on all their money for 4 years, 8 months, is $497; how much has each ?
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8. What is the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, whose area is 8 acres, the base and hypotenuse being equal ?
9. Sold a watch which cost me $50, for $57.20, on a credit of 8 months ; what per cent. did I gain ?
10. A yard 100 feet square is surrounded by a walk which occupies 9-25 of the whole yard ; how wide is the walk ?
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
Time, ¿ hour.
1. What do you understand by common branches, and why are they so-called ?
2. To what extent can a teacher influence his pupils in acquiring knowledge ?
3. What powers of your pupils are you expected to cultivate ?
4. What means do you employ to accomplish that end ?
. What are the responsibilities of a teacher ?
PORTAGE COUNTY.
ARITHMETIC AND PENMANSHIP.
Mere answers will not be credited. Give full solutions, or indicate the process.
1. The bank discount at 6 per cent. of a note having 2 months to run, was $72.66 ; what was the face ?
2. The difference between } and } of a number is 6 less than 1-5 of the same number; what is the number ?
3. Sold a horse for $37.05, losing 81 per cent .; how many dollars did I lose ?
4. The square root of a number is 4096. Give the cube root of the same number.
5. Find the interest and amount of $6783.40 from July 1, 1854, to January 16, 1859, at 62 per cent.
6. C's capital is $1,800 ; D's $2,400; C's is employed 8 months, D's 5 months ; they gain $341; what is the share of each ?
7. If a mass of iron 7 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, and 3 inches thick, weigh 2 tons, what is the weight of a block of wood 25 ft. long, 3 ft. 6 inches wide, and 1 ft. 9 inches thick, iron being 7 times as heavy as wood ?
8. Reduce - of 52 to a decimal and divide the result by .025.
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9. If it require a man 43 days to clear an acre of woodland, how long will it take him to clear 84 acres if he play half the time ?
10. What number divided by 85 will give 10 times 42 for a quotient ?
11. Write as a specimen of your penmanship the rule for finding the greatest common divisor.
GRAMMAR.
Analyzing and parsing must be full and complete.
1. How do you determine the parts of speech ? Illustrate your answer by examples.
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2. Under what circumstances are nouns in the nominative case in the predicate ? Write a sentence explaining your answer.
3. Conjugate the verb "to live", in the potential mode. Name the principal parts of a verb.
4. When is a sentence grammatical ? Define three different kinds of sentences.
5. Analyze by written analysis, and parse the italicized words in the following stanza :
"Ah, the cloud is dark, and, day by day, I am moving thither ; I must pass beneath it on my way- God pity me! whither ?" -Whittier.
6. Give two rules of spelling.
7. What do you understand by silent letters ? What letters are never silent ?
8. Name six words that admit of two ways of spelling, and define each word.
9. Represent by letter the vowel sounds.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Define the following terms: Zenith, horizon, ecliptic, orbit, nadir, and solstice.
2. Name and describe the different races of men, and the different forms of government.
3. Name the isthmus which prevents South America from being an island.
4. Why is there no rain-fall on the Sahara ?
5. Tell what you know respecting the trade winds and the Gulf Stream.
6. Through what states and territories would you pass in crossing the United States on the 40th parallel, north latitude ?
7. What are coral reefs and atolls ? Tell what you can about their formation.
8. Name in the order of their height, and locate five of the highest mountain ranges in the world.
9. On the 21st of June which has the longer day, New York or New Orleans ? Why?
10. Of how many states and territories does the United States consist ? Which State was last admitted ?
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. Give your opinion of the prize system.
2. State some of the indispensable qualifications of a successful teacher.
3. What do you regard the highest and best inducements to study ?
4. How do you teach the alphabet to young pupils ?
5. How do you secure punctuality and good lessons ?
ARITHMETIC.
Mere answers will not be credited. Give full solution, or indicate the process.
1. Multiply 4} by 23 without reducing to improper fractions, and explain. 43 33
2. Reduce - of - to a simple fraction.
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3. Define cancellation and state the principle on which it depends. Divide 30 × 49×64×25 by 35×15×24, using cancellation.
4. How much will 7 bu. 3 pk. 4 qt. cherries cost at $4.50 a bu.
5. Find the cost of papering the walls of a room 18 ft. long, 17 ft. wide, 11 ft. high, at 25c. per square yard.
6. When money is loaned at 6 per cent. and the interest amounts to $75 on $1000, how long has it been loaned ?
7. What must be asked for apples which cost $3 a barrel, that the asking price may be reduced 20 per cent. and still gain 20 per cent. on the cost ?
8. At what price must stock which pays 15 per cent. be purchased that it may yield the same income as 6 per cent. stock bought at 90 ?
9. Find the 6th power of 5, the second root of 784,996 and the 3d root of 74,088.
10. A boy worked 50 days, receiving 25c. the first day, and an increase of three cents per day. What were his wages the last day? What for the fifty days ?
11. State briefly your method of teaching writing, and let this serve as a specimen of your penmanship.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Locate the " West India Islands. " , What three chains do they form ? What is their metropolis, and where situated ?
2. What State are bounded on the west by the Mississippi? On the east? What States is intersected by it?
3. What channel connects the Gulf of Mexico with the Carribbean Sea?
4. What country ranks next to Great Britian in coal and iron ?
5. Which is the largest mountain lake in the world ? Of what river is it the expansion ? Which is the highest ?
6. Where do the following rivers rise, and into what bodies of water do they fiow : Orinoco, Niger, Rio Grande, Danube, Indus, Amoor ?
7. Name the principal islands situated between Asia and Australia, and give some of their productions.
8. Name some of the rainless districts of the Eastern Continent, and state why they have no rain-fall.
9. What causes the inundation of the Nile? Why does it receive no tributaries in a course of 1700 miles from the Mediterranean Sea ?
10. Draw a map of Tennessee, representing its principal rivers, cities and mountains, and name the capital of each State adjacent to it.
GRAMMAR AND ORTHOGRAPHY.
Analyzing and parsing must be full and complete.
1. Define language, "part of speech, " sentence, analysis, parsing.
2. Define an abridged sentence and give an example.
3. What are the different uses of the infinitive ? Give an example of each. .
4. Give a synopsis of the verb " strike " in the indicative mode, passive voice.
5. What is declension ? Conjugation ? Decline and conjugate words illustrat- ing their uses.
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6. Name and write three different kinds of sentences and give the necessary elements of each.
7. Give and explain the different relations of the pronoun "it."
8. Analyze in full and parse the italicized words in the following sentence : " It is not so important what our thoughts are as it is in what manner they are delivered ; since those whom we address are moved only as they hear. "
9. Describe vowel and consonant sounds.
10. When is a word said to be spelled correctly ?
11. Analyze the word practice.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. How many terms have you taught, and how many different schools?
2. Name the elements of a good disciplinarian.
3. What constitutes a well conducted school ?
4. Is it wise to secure the good will of pupils by laxity of disclipline ? Why ?
5. How often do you hold examinations ? How do you conduct them ?.
PREBLE COUNTY.
Teachers will be graded on their professional reading and their attendance at associations and institutes.
Write plainly on but one side of the paper. When it is possible, abbreviate. Give short solutions to problems in arithmetic. A question answered by map or dia- gram will be acceptable. Neatness will add to your per cent. An illegible manu- script will not be graded. Collusion is equivalent to failure. The grade value of each question is indicated by the per cent. number placed after it.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. Define perception, memory and imagination.
2. What, in your opinion, should be the character and extent of a teacher's pre- paration for his work ?
3. What changes in, or additions to, our school laws can you suggest that would in your opinion, tend to the improvement of our schools ?
4. What, if any, benefit have you derived from your attending teachers' insti- tutes or associations ?
5. Write a short essay describing the most serious difficulties you meet with in teaching.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Define plateau, climate, ecliptic, water-shed and monarchy. 5 points-2 each.
2. Name the countries of South America and Europe which have no seacoast. 2 points-5.
3. Describe the boundary between the United States and British America. 1 point-10.
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4. Where is the tropic of Cancer, and why is it located where it is ? 2 points-4.
5. Name the largest river basin in each of the six grand divisions of the earth. 6 points-2.
6. Name and locate 2 republics and 2 absolute monarchies. 2 points-4 each.
7. Bound West Virginia, and tell when and why it was made a state. 3 points -4 each.
8. How many degrees lie between Eaton and the tropic of Cancer ? 1 point-6.
9. In a trip around the world by the ordinary route, through what important cities would you pass ? 7 points-2 each.
10. What states were formed out of the Northwest Territory ? 10.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Name the kinds of metals used in making the different coins of the U. S. 5.
2. How much money would there be in a purse containing one of each of the coins now made ? 5.
3. If you sell & of an article for what § of it cost, what is your gain per cent. ? 5.
4. What must be asked for an article which cost $3 that the asking price may be reduced 20 per cent. and still gain 20 per cent. on the cost ? 10.
5. A dealer sells an amount of goods at a gain of 20 per cent. If they had cost him $60 less, his gain would be 25 per cent. What was the cost? 15.
6. A trader sold a horse for $198, which was 10 per cent. less than he asked for him, and his asking price was 10 per cent. more than the horse cost him. What was the cost? 10.
7. Which is more profitable, to buy 6 per cent. bonds, purchased at 90, interest payable in currency ; or 5 per cent. bonds, purchased at 95, interest payable in gold when gold is worth 6g per cent. premium ? How much more profitable in currency is it on each $100 invested ? 25.
8. Pekin, China, is 116° 27' 30" East longitude, and Washington is 7º West longitude. When it is noon on Jan. 1st at Washington, what time is it at Pekin? 10.
9. By what per cent. of itself must 280 dollars be diminished, so that it shall equal 240 dollars ? 5.
10. State the difference between involution and evolution; also, between arith -. metical progression and geometrical progression.
GRAMMAR.
With grave
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven,
Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic, though in ruins.
- Milton.
1. Render the above in prose. 5.
2. Account for the capital letters and the grammatical pauses. 2 points-5 each.
3. Write the pos. plu. of each noun. 10 points-1 each.
4. Compare the adjective. 5 points-2 each.
5. Give the prin. parts of the verbs. 5 points-5 each.
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6. Give the synopsis of sat. 10.
7. Parse rising, seemed, pillar, deed, care, shown, Milton. 7 points-2 each.
8. Analyze or diagram the above extract. 11.
9. Define poetry. Is the above extract poetry ? 2 points-5 each.
10. Write what you know of Milton.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Place diacritical marks, syllabicate, spell correctly and define the following words:
1. Amanuencis; 2, demonstrate ; 3, hymenial ; 4, trecherous ; 5, fassination ; 6, incorragible ; 7, available ; 8, auspises ; 9, incontrolable ; 10, perceptable. 40 points- 2} each.
PUTNAM COUNTY.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. What is the meaning of the following abbreviations: Viz., vs., vid., shak., ob ?
2. Indicate the sounds used in the proper pronunciation of the following words : Equation, victuals.
3. How 'may pupils be best taught to utter correctly, and with facility, the various vowels and consonant sounds ?
4. Copy and correct the spelling, punctuation and capitals of the following extract from Walter Scott: . "Have you confessed yourself brother said the Templer Guilbert and have you hierd mass this morning that you may perrill your life so frankly i am fiter to meat death than thou art answered the disinhereted Knight fore by this name the strainger had recorded himself in the book of tourney then take your place in the lists said the bois guilbert and take your last look upon the sun for this night thou shalt sleep in paradise grant mercy for the courtesy replied the dis- inhereted night and to requite it i advise the to take a fresh horse and a new lanse for by my honer you will need both.
READING.
1. What is the chief difference between the proper method of reading poetry and prose ?
2. What are the two most prominent ideas expressed before the first semicolon ? Give the reasoning which leads to your conclusion.
3. In how many ways may words and phrases be emphasized ?
4. Indicate the sounds in the following words by the use of diacritical marks : Tongue, mouth, lief, pray, many.
5. Give your system of teaching primary classes to read.
6. What inflection is proper at the close of clauses and sentences making com- plete sense in themselves ?
PENMANSHIP.
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