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STATE OF OREGON
QUESTIONS FOR EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS
JUN E, 1916
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COLLECTION------------------------------------------------------------------------------- — ------ --------------------------. 'CON t o t h e A P P L I C A N T :
, I ~ n W T H E E X A M IN E R :
Select an y ten o f the fo llo w in g qu estion s.
G rade the first ten an sw ers only.
AGRICULTURE
1. What is the chief value in the study o f agriculture?
2. Before purchasing a farm fo r a home, give at least four
important things which should be considered.
3. (a) Give at least two ways in which the number o f bac­
teria in milk may be reduced, (b) What change in milk do the
bacteria cause?
4. In plants we have annuals, biennials and perennials.
Name two o f each.
5.
(a) What is cross pollination?
6. (a) What is humus?
fertility o f soil?
(b) What is a hybrid?
(b ) How does humus affect the
7. (a) Explain how field or garden seeds should be tested
for purity and vitality? (b ) Describe a good seed germinator.
8. Give two reasons why tillage is valuable to growing crops.
9. (a) Name at least two plants that are known as legumes,
(b) O f what value are they to the soil?
10. What is meant by virgin soil; subsoil; top soil?
11. (a) Why would it not be profitable fo r the market gardner to grow wheat? (b) For the wheat farmer to plant his
farm to asparagus or rhubarb?
12. Give several reasons why you think it would be helpful
for pupils to undertake some project in the Boys’ and Girls’
Industrial Club Work.
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A P P L IC A N T :
K t *T H E E X A M I N E R :
Select any ten o f the fo llo w in g p rob lem s.
G rade the first ten an sw ers only.
ARITHMETIC
1. Find the value o f a pile o f 6-foot wood, 40 ft. long and
5 ft. high at $5.50 per cord.
2. A commission merchant sold a consignment o f 700 dozen
eggs at 18% cents and one o f 900 dozen at 21% cents. What
was the amount o f his commission at 4 % % ?
3. Find the amount o f $867.35 for 1 yr. 3 mo. 27 da. at 9%.
4. A tract o f land is 424 rods long and 324 rods wide.
cost $36,919.80. What was the cost per acre?
It
5. Three loads o f coal weighing respectively 3,805 lbs.,
3,965 lbs., and 4,730 lbs., cost $38.75. What was the price
per ton?
6. Express in words:
4009; 350.01259; C X L V III; MCMX.
7. When % o f a yard of cloth costs $2.40, how many yards
can be bought for $19.20?
8. A miller bought wheat at 65% cents per bushel and sold
it at 75% cents per bushel, gaining in all $117.00. How many
bushels did he buy and sell?
9. What fraction o f a gallon o f water can be held in a
tin box 4 in. square and 3 in. deep?
10. What is the cost o f digging a cellar 25 ft. by 36 ft. by
4% ft., at 50 cents per cubic yard?
11. A garden plot 30 ft. long contains 450 sq. ft. of land.
What is the cost o f enclosing it with wire fence at 27 cents
a yard?
12. A game of baseball began at 25 minutes, 38 seconds past
2 p. m., and closed at 7 minutes, 15 seconds past 4 p. m. How
long did the game last?
STATE OF OREGON
QUESTIONS FOR EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS
JUN E, 1916
T O T H E A P P L I C A N T : Select any ten o f the fo llow in g questions. In
this su bject the ap p lican ts m ay, if they wish, use their textbook s
in an sw erin g the questions, but not m ore than 1% hours shall be
allow ed fo r this subject.
TO T H E E X A M I N E R : G rade the first ten an sw ers only.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
1. What does your author say is the prime purpose in the
study o f civil government?
2. Where does your author say the pupils are to find the
answers to the questions following the chapters?
3. Why is it more important for children in the United
States to study civil government than for those o f Spain or
Russia?
4. Name three officers in the President’s Cabinet and give
the departments over which they preside.
5. What is meant by the conservation o f natural resources?
Illustrate.
6. Name four “ American Ideals” as given in your Civil
Government text.
7. Name at least five forms o f organized government found
in the United States.
8. Why was the Declaration o f Independence a very import­
ant document?
9. Give the name o f the chief executive o fficer: (a) in the
United States, (b) in Oregon, (c ) in your county.
10. Explain fully the two ways in which laws may be enacted
in Oregon.
11. Is the right o f franchise a privilege or a duty?
fully.
12. Explain each o f the follow ing:
facto; extradition; bail.
Explain
Habeas corpus; ex post
STATE OF OREGON
QUESTIONS FOR EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS
JUNE, 1916
TO T H E A P P L I C A N T :
TO T H E E X A M IN E R :
Select a n y ten o f the fo llo w in g q u e stio n s.
G rade the first ten an sw ers only.
GEOGRAPHY
1. (a) Name the states which border on the Gulf o f Mexico,
(b) On the Pacific Ocean.
2. W hy is there so little rainfall in the southwestern part
o f the United States?
3. What was the effect o f the discovery o f gold in California
upon the population o f the Western States?
4. (a) What are the principal harbors on the Pacific Coast?
(b) Five o f the principal cities.
5. Which of the five groups o f states into which the United
States is divided has the densest population? Which the least
dense? Give reasons fo r this.
6. Name four countries o f South America that trade with
the United States, and tell what they sell to us and what they
buy from us.
7. Describe the climate and chief products o f Australia.
8. How do you account fo r the fact that there is so much
more manufacturing being carried on in New England than in
the Western States?
9. (a) What effect is the Great W ar having upon the manu­
facturing industry o f the United States? (b ) What are the
chief products now being exported from the United States to
Europe?
10. Draw a map of Oregon and show three principal rail­
roads, three mountain ranges, four principal rivers and eight
principal cities.
11. Draw a map o f your county giving the principal streams
and towns, and write in the chief products, showing their
location.
12. Name one county each in Oregon that is particularly
noted for the production o f live stock, alfalfa, wheat, fruit,
dairy products, salmon, lumber, coal, gold and hops.
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STATE OF OREGON
QUESTIONS FOR EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS
JUNE, 1916
TO T H E A P P L I C A N T : Select an y ten o f the fo llo w in g questions. In
this su bject the ap p lican ts m ay, if they wish, use their textbook s
in an sw erin g the questions, but not m ore than tw o hours shall be
allow ed fo r this subject.
TO T H E E X A M I N E R : G rade the first ten an sw ers only.
HISTORY
1. (a) What is the chief value in the study of history?
(b) Where besides in the school histories may we learn the
history o f our country?
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2. Give two events in American history that showed the
determination of the people to have freedom in their religious
worship.
3. What advantage did the Puritan plan of settling in towns
have over the Virginia plan?
4. How did the people o f New Hampshire differ from those
of Massachusetts?
5. Make a list o f the causes that turned the thoughts o f the
Colonists to separation from England.
6. Tell briefly about each of the follow ing: “ Blue Laws” ;
“ Old Ironsides” ; “ Quit-rent” ; “ Rough Riders” ; Poor Richard’s
Almanac.”
7. What is the difference between getting money by a tax,
getting it by bonds, or getting it by issuing greenbacks?
8. (a) Does the United States still believe in enforcing the
Monroe Doctrine? (b) Are we prepared to enforce it?
9. Give briefly the important events portrayed in the illus­
trations entitled: (a) Driving the “ Golden Spike” on the Union
P acific; (b) Pickett’s Charge at the Battle o f Gettysburg;
(c) W olf’s Victory on the Heights o f Abraham; (d) The Sur­
render of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown; (c) The Landing o f the
Pilgrims at Plymouth.
10. In what ways has the great work o f Horace Mann helped
the boys and girls o f Oregon?
11. What is being done by Congress in the interests of
“ preparedness” ?
12. (a) Name two American and two Spanish officers who
are frequently mentioned in connection with the present trouble
in Mexico, (b) Who is the president o f Mexico?
STATE OF'OREGON
QUESTIONS FOR EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS
JUN E, 1916
TO T H E A P P L IC A N T :
TO T H E E X A M I N E R :
Select an y ten o f the fo llo w in g q u e stio n s.
G rade the first ten an sw ers only.
LANGUAGE
1.
Analyze the following sentence:
Early the next morning Aladdin’s mother wrapped the
dish in two fine napkins and set out fo r the sultan’s palace.
—• 2. (a) Define a sentence.
(b) Write an imperative sen­
tence containing an adjective clause, (c) Write a declarative
sentence containing an adverbial clause.
~~ 3. Parse the nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives in the
following sentence:
I see that you have trudged half a score o f miles
today, and like a wise man have passed by the taverns and
stopped at the running brooks.
4. Write the singular possessive and possessive plural, if
there be one, o f each o f the following nouns: fox, lady, thief,
tigress, son-in-law.
5. (a) Write a complex sentence in which a clause is used
as the subject, (b) W rite a compound declarative sentence.
6. Copy the following sentence and make any necessary
corrections:
Elizabeth was profoundly moved and kneeling down
exclaimed in latin its the lords doings and it is wonderful in
our eyes.
7. Analyze the following sentence:
A fter my sixth voyage I had given up all thoughts
o f going to sea again, for my age required rest, and I wished
to expose myself to no more risks, but to pass the rest o f my
days in peace.
8. Write 10 lines o f poetry that you have memorized in
school.
9. Parse the italicized words in the follow ing:
It happened at Athens, during a public representation
of some play exhibited in honor o f the commonwealth, that an
old gentleman came toe late for a place suitable to his age and
quality.
10. (a) Substitute phrases for the italicized words in the
following sentence:
The woman looked scornfully at the judge.
(b) Without changing the meaning, substitute clauses
for the italicized words in the following sentence:
They forgot their hunger and weariness.
11. (a) Name the principal characters in the story o f Red
Riding Hood.
(b) Describe the plot in this story.
12. Write a short letter to a friend about this examination.
(Do not sign your own name.)
STATE OF OREGON
QUESTIONS FOR EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS
JUN E, 1916
TO T H E A P P L I C A N T :
TO T H E E X A M IN E R :
Select an y ten o f the fo llo w in g q u e stio n s.
G rade the first ten an sw ers only.
PHYSIOLOGY
1. (a) Why should we eat several different kinds o f foods?
(b) Give several cautions in regard to eating.
2. What is meant by adulteration of foods?
trations.
Give illus­
3. (a) How may impure drinking water be made harmless?
(b) Give several cautions in regard to the location and care
o f wells.
4. (a) How do the bones o f little children differ in com­
position from those o f old persons? (b) Explain now the bones
o f children may become permanently deformed.
5. Explain the value of good ventilation.
cautions in regard to ventilating rooms.
Give several
6. Explain the statement found in your Physiology, that a
“ healthy brain requires a healthy body.”
7. Give three rules for the care o f the eyesight in school,
and three out o f school.
8. (a) Explain the structure of the teeth,
rules regarding the care o f the teeth.
(b)
Give five
9. (a) What is a stimulant? A narcotic? (b) How does the
use of alcohol affect the muscles o f the body?
10. Explain why outdoor games are valuable for children.
11. (a) What is the greatest objection to the housefly?
(b) How is the best way to rid the premises o f flies?
12. (a) Explain the importance o f bathing,
cautions in regard to bathing.
(b) Give three
STATErT)F OREGON
QUESTIONS FOR EIGHTH GRADE DIPLOMAS
JUNE, 1916
SPELLING
F ifty w o rd s to be pronounced by the exam iner, tw o cred its each.
1. knuckle
2. razor
3. accommodate
4. dying
5. siege
6. fragile
7. architect
8. sheriff
9. bereave
10. legend
26. hideous
27. chauffeur
28. acknowledge
29. theater
30. boisterous
31. nuisance
32. vicinity
33. recommend
34. cemetery
11. restaurant
35. pessimist
36. colonel
12. weasel
37. guitar
13. college
38. hypocrite
39. millionaire
14. measles
15. concede
16. misspelled
40. mileage
17. tantalize
42. dyspepsia
18. herbage
43. vaccinate
44. orchestra
45. gymnasium
19. gauge
20. tragedy
41. emphasis
21. martyr
22. fictitious
46. asparagus
23. schedule
24. geyser
25. catarrh
48. aeronaut
49. thermometer
47. souvenir
50. affidavit