Information Questions. (Not to be rated.) 1. Who looks after the poor in the township? 2. Who tries suits in the county? 3. 4. Where and when does your father vote for supervisor? About what time does your father pay his taxes? 5. If you should find yourself unknown and without money in the county seat of any county, to what officer would you go for assistance? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. GEOGRAPHY. Define political, mathematical, and physical geography. Name (a) the countries of South America, (b) the capital of each, and (c) indicate the pronunciation of each capital. Name the ten largest cities of the United States. Name the chief railroads of Michigan. Bound your county, name the county seat, and give the number of townships in Name and locate two cities in each of the following countries: England, Japan, 7. Name the productions of Canada which are imported into the United States. 8. 9. 10. 11. Tell what you can of Portugal, its government, cities, productions, and education. Describe the surface of North America. 12. Draw a map of Michigan and locate thereon coal mines, salt wells, copper mines, iron mines, fruit belt, and chief rivers. 13. 14. Name the cities of Asia having good harbors, that is, the chief trade cities. 15. Locate Suez canal, Kiel canal, Welland canal, Chicago drainage canal. GRAMMAR. 1. The language, paragraphing, punctuation, and neatness of paper will count for this number. Define case, number, declension, comparison. 7. Write the possessives of man, Smith and Herman, doctor, attorney-at-law, horse. Give the principal parts of the following verbs: lie, drink, see, go, do. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. State in how many ways a noun may be used in the objective case, and illustrate each. Give the construction of each word in the following sentence: "I intend to do my part in making the world better." Parse intend, my and better in the foregoing sentence. Conjugate the verb go in the present, past and future tenses. 14. Give a list of twenty adjectives and twenty adverbs as commonly used. 15. Write a letter to your commissioner telling him how you intend to avoid using incorrect language and slang expressions. NOTE Commissioner will mark on thought, arrangement, punctuation, spelling, and form. Define root word, derivative word, and give examples. 4. Use the following words in sentences: sea, see; ceil, seal; sweet, suite; principle, principal; air, heir. 6. 5. Write the abbreviations for honorable, doctor, Michigan, pound, volume, president. Mark the accent and diacritics of the following words: Callao, Ecuador, Panama, dishonest, orange, attribute, superfluous, extant. 1. 2. 3. 4-5. (a) Show your teacher the proper position for holding the pen. (b) Do you prefer to sit facing your desk in writing or with the right side towards the desk? (a) Make the capital letters that contain the oval. (b) Make the small letters that contain the loop. Give three exercises that your teacher has had you use frequently to cultivate the muscular movement. Write some stanza of not less than four lines to show a specimen of your handwriting. PHYSIOLOGY. 1. Why are the bones of a child so much more easily mended than those of an adult? Name and give examples of the different kinds of joints. 2. 3. What are the organs of circulation? 4. Name and describe the parts of the eye. 5. How is the blood changed in the lungs? 6. What is meant by digestion? 7. What are the digestive fluids? Name them and tell by what organ each is secreted. 8. What constitutes the nervous system? 9. What is the purpose of perspiration? 10. What organs are contained in the chest cavity? 11. Name the divisions of the brain and state the function of each. 12. State briefly the effect of exercise upon the muscles. 13. Name four foods that contain an abundance of starch. 14. What is the effect of alcohol upon the nervous system? 15. Define cartilage, tissue, ligament, muscle, mucous membrane. READING. The Chambered Nautilus. 1. Give a biographical sketch of the author of this poem. 2-3-4. When was the poem written? Write out the entire poem. 5. (a) What is the theme of the poem? (b) What is the central thought? 6. Give the meanings of the following words: feign, wont, irised, crypt, venturous. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Explain the following: (a) ship of pearl. (b) unshadowed main. (c) purpled wings. (d) wandering sea. (e) heavenly message. Give in your own words an outline of the entire poem, explaining the meaning and purpose of each stanza. To how many things is the nautilus compared? What are they? (a) What is personified as the mother of the nautilus? (b) "Forlorn" in stanza four modifies what word? (c) Explain the meaning of the word still in the line "Still, as the spiral grew." (a) Who are the Sirens? (b) Who is Triton? "Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:-" Explain the meaning of caves of thought. Whose voice? What figure of speech is used in the last stanza? Why? To whom or what is the last stanza addressed? Could the nautilus have brought the lesson that it did, if the shell had not been broken so as to reveal the inner structure? Give reasons for your answer. 15. What is alliteration? Pick out the musical and alliterative lines in the poem and tell why they are such. UNITED STATES HISTORY. 1. State briefly what is known of America before the discovery by Columbus. What nations were engaged in the early discoveries and explorations of America? 5. 6. Why was the South opposed to the election of Lincoln? 7. Mention two important victories of the Union army in 1863, and state what Union general was in command of each. What was the Reconstruction Period? Why so called? 8. What was the Monroe Doctrine? The Dred Scott Decision? The Missouri Compromise? 9. By whom and under what circumstances were the following expressions used? 10. (a) "I would rather be right than president." (b) "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!" (c) "We have met the enemy and they are ours!" Explain what you understand by a protective tariff; a national bank; inter-state commerce commission. 11. What territory was included in the Northwest Territory? 12. 13. 14. 15. When did Michigan become a state? Mention three men prominent in early Michigan history. Mention three important territorial acquisitions made by the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. Name the presidents in their order. State the causes and results of the Spanish-American War. 18 |