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LIST OF QUESTIONS

FOR NORMAL GRADUATES' EXAMINATION

IN THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.

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Ten credits each for the following questions correctly answered :

1. (a) Define orthography. (b) How much time do you devote to spelling exercises? (c) Give your methods of teaching spelling.

2. How many elementary sounds in the English language, and how are they represented? 3. Name and define the vowels and consonants.

4. When are w and y vowels?

5. When is the hyphen generally used between the parts of a compound word, and when is it commonly omitted?

6. Give three rules for spelling, and illustrate each by example.

(Section 2. Forty Credits.)

The examiner will pronounce the following words, and the applicants will write the words correctly, capitalizing, placing marks of accent, and using proper diacritical marks in accented syllables. One credit for each word spelled and written correctly:

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Is a pause ever made in reading where there are no punctuation marks? Explain.
What is inflection? Name the different kinds of inflection and give the general principles

for the use of each.

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Name some of the most common errors in reading.

By what method would you lead a pupil to an appreciative rendering of a paragraph? 5. Should any of the pupils' skill in reading be acquired by imitation? If so, to what extent What is meant by a monotone? Is a monotone ever appropriate in reading? If so, when At what rate should the following be read? Why? Mark the pauses (as long or short:)

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"And there lay the rider, distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail.
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown."

& Underline emphatic words in following and give reasons:

"Man cannot know unless he can worship in some way. His knowledge is a pedantry and dead thistle otherwise. It is a calumny on men to say that they are roused to heroic action by ease, hope of pleasure, recompense, sugar plums of any kind in this world or the next. In the meanest mortal there lies something nobler.

9. Mark inflections in following, with the reasons for each:

"They tell us sir, that we are weak-unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year?"

Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse, and for ability is in the judgment and disposition of business.

10. Define pitch, force and rate.

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2. Make and number the principles of the Spencerian system.

3. Describe the position of the pen and hand when in proper position for writing.

4. Which do you consider of first importance in teaching penmanship, form of letters or movement of hand?

5. Where and how should the shade be made in the following letters:

T, W, O, t, E, p.

GEOGRAPHY.

1. Name the principal seaports and the principal manufacturing cities of England.

2. Locate Niagara Falls, Mammoth Cave and Yosemite Valley.

3. In what political division is each of the following: Berlin, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Denver, Calcutta and Stockholm?

4. What parts of the United States are noted for the production of the following: Rice, oranges, tobacco, wheat, lead, iron, copper and coal?

5. For what are the following places noted: London, Rome, Paris, Venice, Mecca, Moscow and Jerusalem?

6. A and B set out from Salem, Oregon.

A travels ten degrees south, then ten degrees east ; B travels ten degrees east, then ten degrees south. Which travels the greater distance? Why?

7 Name the three departments of our national government. What are the leading officers in each department and how are they chosen?

What is the difference between a State and a Territory? What four States were admitted into the Union during the last session of congress?

9. How would you travel by water from Albany, New York, to Kansas City, Missouri? What important cities, capes and bays would you pass on the way?

10. Name the five Great Powers, and give the official title of the ruler of each.

UNITED STATES HISTORY.

1. Name four early explorers of America, of different nationalities, with the date and principal explorations of each.

2 Give the date of two of the earliest settlements in the present territory of the United States with an account of the founding of each.

3. What was the government of the colonies before the beginning of the Revolutionary war? 4. State briefly the causes of the Revolutionary war.

5. Name four important Am rican victories during the war, with dates and names of Landing generals.

6. Give the causes of the war of 1812, and describe Perry's victory on Lake Erie.

7. What were (a) the Missouri compromise, (b) the Omnibus bill, (c) the Kansas-Nebraska bill? * Name three important Federal and three important Confederate victories during the Civil war, with the date and names of commanding generais in each.

9. What States were added to the Union during the Civil war?

10. Give the dates of the following events: The invention of the spinning jenney; the invention of the electric telegraph; the laying of the Atlantic cable.

MENTAL ARITHMETIC.

1. A sum of money, diminished by 3-7 of itself and $6, equals $12; what is the sum?

2. Eight per cent of $200 is 2-5 of what A gave for a watch; he sold it so as to gain 20%; for what did he sell it?

3. How many yards of cloth at $4 a yard must a merchant buy that by selling it at a profit of be may gain $8.

4. B found 10 cents and then lost 2-5 of what he found, and then had % as much as he had at first; how much had he at first?

5. James lost 2% of his turkeys, and then finds by selling 2% of the remainder for cost he would receive $20; but finding 6 and selling % of the number he then had he received $24; how any did he retain?

6A person being asked the hour of the day, replied that 2 hours ago the time past noon was of the time to midnight 2 hours hence; required the time?

7. Two-thirds the cube of a number is 10 more than the cube of %% of the number; wi the number?

8. Twenty-five years ago John was 1-7 as old as his uncle, but 5 years ago he was. asi how old is each at present?

9. A can cut a cord of wood in 5-6 of a day and B in 4-5 of a day; in what time can together cut a cord?

10. A receives $2.50 a day for his labor and pays 50 cents a day for his board; at the expira of 40 days he had saved $50; how many days did he work and how many days was he idle?

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WRITTEN ARITHMETIC.

Name and define the fundamental operations of Arithmetic.

Define: (1) Greatest common devisor, (2) Least common multiple.

Define (1) A denominate number, (2) A measure.

Define: (1) Money, (2) Currency.

Define: (1) Tariff, (2) A specific duty.

Define: (1) Similar volumes, (2) A series.

*The longitude of New York is 74° 3′ west, and of Jerusalem is 35° 32′ east; when it is o'clock A. M. at New York, what is the time at Jerusalem?

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If I buy Michigan 6's at 108, interest payable semi-annually, what annual rate per e do I receive, interest at 6 per cent?

9. A lady bought 102 yards of cloth at an average of 15c; some at 8, some at 13, some at and some at 20c a yard; how many yards of each kind?

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Extract the cube root of 277167808.

*The work must be given in full. No credit for answers only.

GRAMMAR.

1. Define language, elementary sound, and syllable.

2. Define an imperative sentence.

3. Define verb, preposition, noun, and conjunction.

4. Name and define the properties of the noun.

Define the present and perfect participle, and give an example of each.
Define a descriptive and a definitive adjective.

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Give the rule for forming possessive case of nouns.

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How many tenses has the indicative mode? Name them.

9. Analyze the following: Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (a) Parse all nouns:

The charities that soothe, and heel, and bless,

Are scattered at the feet of men like flowers.

(b) Give the five forms common to most English verbs. Illustrate each.
(c) Why should an adverb never be used as the attribute complement of a verb ?
(d) Analyze and diagram the following sentence: "The proud bird, the condor of t
Andes, that can soar through heaven's unfathomable depths, or brave the fury of:
northern hurricane, and bathe his plumage in the thunder's home, furls his bro
wings at nightfall, and sinks down to rest upon his mountain-crag.'
Parse comi
furls, thunder's, to rest and that.

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

1. Name and briefly define each of the three departments of the government.

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How are the following officers elected: (a) Representatives, (b) Senators, (c) The Pre

dent of the United States?

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In which house does the power of impeachment lie, and in which the power of trial?
Name six of the powers specifically vested in Congress.

5. In what three ways may a bill become a law?

METHODS.

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

1. What are educational instrumentalities?

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Name the school apparatus necessary in common schools, in the order of importance? 3. What methods may a teacher adopt to secure suitable apparatus for his school?

4. Give a plan of seating pupils in ungraded schools.

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What general regulations should be adopted for the government of the school? Ho should they be adopted and how enforced?

TEACHING.

6. Give the proper method of conducting object lessons in primary grades

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you use?

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Name the different methods of teaching the first steps in reading. Which of these woul
What are the essentials of good reading?

9. What are the objects sought in analysis and parsing in grammar? Should analysis b taught by diagrams? Why?

10. Describe the Grube method in arithmetic.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

1. Describe the character of King Alfred, and his influence on the English language and literature.

2 Who was the author of the Cantenbury tales? What is their plot, and from what source derived f

3. Name two great allegorical works in English literature. Give the author and distinguishing characters of each.

4. Give the prominent traits in the character of Alex. Pope.

what age did he belong?

Name his principal books. To

5. What are the strong features of Shakespeare's art? Illustrate by naming three works and prominent characters.

6. To what literary period did Shakespeare belong? Name two illustrious prose writers of the same period.

7. Describe the life and character of Sir Walter Scott. In what department of literature was be most famous? Name two of his principal poems and three of his principal prose works. & Describe the character of Thos. Carlyle, and estimate his influence on the present age. 9. Name three popular characters from Dickens' novels, and tell where each may be found. 10. Characterize Nathaniel Hawthorne and his works. Name two of his principal novels.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1. Give the three general divisions of the human race, and name two nations under each. 2 Name the different epochs in Egyptian history, with dates, and describe the Egyptian art, terature and civilization.

3. Name the epochs in Babylonia and Assyrian history, with dates, and describe the city of Babylon.

Where and when were the following battles fought, and with what result: (a) Marathon, Thermopyle, (c) Salamis, (d) Plataa, (F) Charonea, (ƒ) Arbela.

5. Give the epochs in Roman history, with dates, and describe the life and character of Fallas Casar, of Marcus Antonius, and of Constantine the Great.

6. What were the limits of Charlemagne's kingdom, and the principal divisions subsequent to his death.

7. Give the cause, number and duration of the Crusades?

8. Give, briefly, the life and character of Louis XVI and Napoleon Bonaparte?

9. What were the causes and the result of the thirty years' war? What great Swedish monreh took part in it?

10. Name, with nationality and approximate date, (a) five great generals, (b) five great statesen, (c) five great poets, (d) five great religious teachers.

CHEMISTRY.

1. Define: (a) element, (b) compound, (c) acid, (d) base, (e) salt.

2. Explain the atomic theory, and give two of its laws.

Give the distinctions between metals and non-metals.

4. What is meant by the atomicity of an element? Give the atomicity of oxygen of carbon. Name the following compounds: C H4, C2 H4, C O2, H N O,, H, N, Ca C O,, Cu S 04, Fe S - TuSO, KH CO.

6. Explain the process of combustion, and name the products of ordinary combustion.

7. Describe the usual method of generating oxygen, and give the properties of the gas.

8. Define organic chemistry, and name the four elements which enter principally into rganic compounds.

9. Describe the process of changing a dydrocarbon into an alcohol and into an ether. 10. Explain the use of yeast in bread-making.

GEOMETRY.

1. Define (1) Trapezoid, (2) Rhombus, (3) Rhomboid.

Define (1) Scholium, (2) Theorem.

Define (1) Projection of a point on a plane. (2) Dihedral angle.

4. Detine (1) A Polyhedron, (2) Parallelopiped.

5. Defie (1) Truncated pyramid, (2) Fiustrum of a pyramid.

6. Problem: To divide a given straight line into equal parts.

7. An angle formed by a tangent and a chord is measured by one-half the intercep'ed arc. Theorem-The exterior angles of a polygon, made by producing each of its sides in succeson, are together equal to four right angles.

Theorem-Of all triangles having two sides respectively equal that in which these sides clude right angles is the maximum.

10. Theorem-If in any triangle a medial line be drawn from the vertex to the base, the sum the squares on the two sides is equivalent to twice the square of half the base, plus twice the quare on the medial line,

CONSTITUTION OF OREGON.

1. Give the preamble to the constitution.

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What offenses are not bailable?

3. How are the powers of the government divided, and by whom is the power in each exer cised?

4. What persons are liab'e to do military duty, and who are exempt?

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How can you prove that you have a mind?

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Define the intellect, the sensibilities, the will.

4. Define imagination. What are its products? How may it be cultivated?

5. What is abstraction?

6. Define generalization or conception. Give the steps in the process of conception. 7. What is the office of the judgment?

judgments in intention.

8. Define reasoning; the syllogism.

reasoning and deductive reasoning.

Distinguish between judgments in extension asi

Form syllogism. Distinguish between inductive

9. What is intuition? What are its products? What ideas are furnished by this faculty? 10. Why should teachers study mental science?

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When are quantities in proportion by inversion?

7. Problem-Factor (x2+y) into its prime factors.

8. Extract the square root of (a+b)2-4(a−b)✔ab.

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10. If a carriage wheel 161⁄2 feet round took 1 second more to revolve, the rate of the carriage per hour would be 17% miles less. At what rate is the carriage travelling?

RHETORIC.

1. Name the departments of rhetoric and define each.

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Name the two essential parts of discourse, and define discussion.
Name the five different processes by which explanation is effected.

4. Define narration; analysis; comparison and contrast.

5. What general laws govern in explanation?

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Give the law for the efficiency of the wheel and axle.

3. Why does the magnetic needle point toward the north?

4. Name the sources of current electricity.

5. Name the circumstances that influence the evaporation of liquids.

6. Define (1) Pitch, (2) Quality as used in music.

7. How would you determine the specific gravity of a body?

8. Why does a solid body float in a liquid?"

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A body lighter than water weighs 400 grains in the air; attached to a piece of brass it weighed 4,494 graius in the air and 3,240 grains in water; the brass itself loses, weighed in water 460 grains; what is the specific gravity of the body?

BOOK-KEEPING.

1. Define bills receivable and bills payable.

2. How is the loss" or "gin" found when there is an inventory?

3. Give the general rule for journalizing a draft.

4. In closing the ledger what entries do we place in red ink?

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