2. What was the usual route traversed by the early navigators in attempting to reach the New World? 3. How were the Virginia colonists affected by the English Revolution that led to the execution of Charles I. ? 4. In what wars were the colonists involved prior to the American Revolution? 5. What were the terms of the treaty that terminated the French and Indian War? 6. What territory has been acquired by the United States since Washington's administration? 7. How many States have been formed from the North-west Territory? From the Territory of Virginia? 8. Name some of the most important events in the political history of the United States. 9. What was the condition of political parties at the presidential election of 1860 ? 10. What new Territories, west of the Mississippi, have been organized since Buchanan's administration? Hunc ubi vix multa mæstum cognovit in umbra, Qui fore te ponto incolumem, finesque canebat 3. Principal parts of eripuit. What kind of a verb is alloquitur, and why? Dispose of responso, of venturum. 4. Translate:-Etenim quid est, Catilina, quod jam amplius exspectes, si neque nox tenebris obscurare cœtus nefarios, nec privata domus, parietibus continere vocem conjurationis tuæ potest? si illustrantur, si erumpunt omnia? Muta jam istam mentem mihi crede; obliviscere cædis, atque incendiorum. Teneris undique: luce sunt clariora nobis tua consilia omnia: quæ etiam mecum licet recognoscas. 5. Give the construction of tenebris. Give the rule for the case of mihi, of cædis, of luce. 6. From what noun is nefarios derived? Give the principal parts of erumpunt. Parse muta. 7. Explain in full the composition of exspectes, of illustrantur, of conjurationis, of recog noscas. 8. Translate:-Labienus, ut erat ei præceptum a Cæsare, ne prælium commiteret, nisi ipsius copiæ prope hostium castra visa essent, ut undique uno tempore in hostes impetus fieret, monte occupato, nostros exspectabat, prælioque abstinebat. 9. Why are committeret, visæ essent, and fieret in the subjunctive mode? 10. Explain the composition of præceptum, committeret, exspectabat, and abstinebat. 11. Write the principal parts of fieret. Give its inflection in present indicative. What is the irregularity in this verb? 12. Decline ei. Write rule for the case of Cæsare, of castra. Case of monte and prælio, and why? 13. Write in Latin: “ It is the duty of a good citizen to encounter death itself for the state." 14. Write in Latin: "Nature herself admonishes us every day how few things we require." 15. Derive the italicized words in the following sentence: "I call, therefore, a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." GREEK. 1. Write and translate the Greek words from which the following English words are derived: Archangel, euphony, philology, isothermal, and epidemic. 2. Write the English words from the following Greek, and give the literal meaning of each: ἵππος and ποταμός; θεός and λόγος; λίθος and γράφω ; φιλέω and σοφία; αναλογία; αμφί and βίος. 3 3. Translate: *Ω ἄνδρες Ελληνες, οὐκ ἀνθρώπων ἀπορῶν βαρβάρων συμμάχους ὑμᾶς ἄγω, ἀλλὰ νομίζων, ἀμείνονας καὶ κρείττους πολλῶν βαρβάρων ὑμᾶς εἶναι, διὰ τοῦτο προσέλαβον. 4. Translate: Οπως οὖν ἔσεσθε ἄνδρες ἄξιοι τῆς ἐλευθερίας, ἧς κέκτησθε, καὶ ὑπὲρ ἧς ὑμᾶς ἐγὼ εὐδαιμονίζω. Εὖ γὰρ ἔστε, ὅτι τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἑλοίμην ἂν, ἀντὶ ὧν ἔχω πάντων καὶ ἄλλων πολλαπλασίων. 5. Explain the composition of συμμάχους; of εὐδαιμονίζω. Write the principal parts of ἄγω ; of προσέλαβον. Ελοίμην, where found ? 6. Dispose of ανθρώπων. Compare αμείνονας. Give the force of ἂν. Decline ν. 7. Translate: Κῦρος μὲν οὖν οὕτως ἐτελεύτησεν, ἀνὴρ ὢν Περσῶν τῶν μετὰ Κῦρον τὸν ἀρχαῖον γενομένων βασιλικώτατός τε καὶ ἄρχειν ἀξιώτατος, ὡς παρὰ πάντων ὁμολογεῖται τῶν Κύρου δοκούντων ἐν πείρᾳ γενέσθαι. 8. Translate : Πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ ἔτι παῖς ὢν, ὅτε ἐπαιδεύετο καὶ σὺν τῷ ἀδελφῷ καὶ σὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις παισὶ, πάντων πάντα κράτιστος ἐνομίζετο. 9. It is well to love those who practice justice in word and deed. 10. Those who do no injustice are deserving of great honors. ADAMS COUNTY. ARITHMETIC. 1. Why is the value of a fraction not changed by multiplying both terms by the same number? 2. Why does inverting the divisor and multiplying the terms together divide a fraction? 3. Multiply by .000018 and divide the product by 27 millionths. 4. How many per cent. of 13-80 is 17-20 ? 5. A, owning 85 per cent. of a ship, sells 15 per cent. of his share for $42,000. What is the ship worth? 6. If A's age were increased by its 3-7, its 4-5, and 20 more, the sum would equal 24 times his age. Required his age. 7. A, B, and C are partners; A's stock is $7,500, B's $14,700, and C's $12,300; A and B together gain $1,340 more than C. What is the gain of each? 8. Two-thirds of A's fortune + 4-7 of B's equals $8,500, and of B's fortune is 5-3 times 2-5 of A's. What is the fortune of each? 9. What relative quantities of silver 9-11 pure and pure will make a mixture 5-6 pure? 10. In extracting the square root of a number, why is the first figure of the root doubled for a trial divisor? GRAMMAR. 1. Define orthographic and phonic spelling. 2. Can proper nouns be used in the plural number? 3. In pronouncing the names of which of the letters of the alphabet is it proper to use the indefinite article an? Why is it thus used? 4. Explain the uses of mine and thine. Can my be used in every instance for mine? 5. Give a full and complete form for parsing an adjective, verb, and a double relative. 6. How may the use of the potential mode in our language be entirely dispensed with? 7. Give an example of a verb in the imperative mode in each of the persons-first, second, and third. Parse words in italics: 8. I will try what good there be in this. See what natures accompany what colors. 9. See the sole bliss heaven could on all bestow, Which who but feels can taste, but thinks can know ; 10. Yet poor with fortune, and with learning blind, The bad must miss, the good, untaught, will find. GEOGRAPHY. 1. Name the political divisions of North America. 2. Name the Territories of the United States, and give their capitals. 3. How many different forms of government among civilized governments? What are they? 4. Define physical geography. 5. What do the tropics show? 6. Near what elevation is the "snow line"? 7. Does the sun change position with regard to the planets? 8. What continent lies wholly within one zone? 9. In what does the orbit of a comet differ from that of a planet? 10. What causes the change of seasons? ATHENS COUNTY. ARITHMETIC. 1. My cellar, 30 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 8 feet deep, is filled with water; how much will it cost me to have it pumped out at 5 cents per hogshead? 2. How many yards of carpeting, one-half yard wide, will it take to cover a floor 21 by 30 feet? What will it cost at $1.40 per yard? 3. I had 13 3-9 gallons of wine; 7-9 gallons leaked out; I wish to put the remainder into bottles, each containing 4-9 of a gallon: how many bottles do I need? 4. A plank 18 feet long and 1-6 foot thick contains 23 cubic feet. What is the width? 5. For what sum must a note, payable in 60 days, be drawn to produce $493, when discounted at 8 per cent.? 6. A and B are partners; 3-5 of A's capital is equal to 5-6 of B's, and their loss is $2150. What is the share of each? 7. How large a sight draft can be bought for $259.52, exchange being 18 per cent. premium? 8. How large a draft, payable 30 days after sight, can be bought for $302.25, exchange being 1 per cent. and interest 6 per cent.? THEORY AND PRACTICE. 1. State what items of business should be transacted between the teacher and the school officers prior to the commencement of the school. 2. Enumerate the more important duties to be performed on the first day of school. 3. How would you determine the average daily attendance? Monthly Yearly? 4. How many recesses, and of what length, would you allow pupils under ten years of age? 5. To what extent should teachers be held responsible for the health of their pupils? 6. About what should be the dimensions of a country school-house capable of accommodating fifty pupils? GEOGRAPHY. 1. Into how many parts is the science of geography divided ? 2. Why is the Tropic of Cancer situated 234° north of the Equator? 3. Name the peninsulas of Europe washed by the Mediterranean Sea. 4. Define language and dialect. Give the number of each in the world. 5. How many kinds of religion are there? Name them. 6. What is the population of the world? Of the United States? Of Ohio? 7. Upon what does the climate of a place depend? 8. Where are the Straits of Dover, Magellan, Babel-mandeb, and Sunda ? 9. What counties of Ohio border on Lake Erie ? 10. Name and locate the capitals of the following States: Ohio, Oregon, Georgia, North Carolina, and New Jersey. GRAMMAR. 1. Decline all the personal pronouns of the third person. 2. Give a synopsis of the verb to feel in the indicative and potential modes, progressive form. 3. Write a sentence containing a verb in the passive voice limited by an infinitive which governs a noun in the objective case. 4. In the sentence, "I want books to read," what is the object of want, and how do you parse books and to read? 5. Write a sentence in which the subject is modified by two different kinds of elements, and the predicate modified by three different kinds, and then analyze the sentence. 6. Parse words in italics: "For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, BELMONT COUNTY. GEOGRAPHY. 1. Define island, continent, peninsula, and isthmus. 2. Define river, and name three in England. 3. Name and describe one of the principal mountain ranges on the earth. 4. State the advantage of mountains to the earth's surface. 5. Bound Belgium, and describe it as to government, climate, and productions. 6. State the source, direction, and tributaries of the river Rhine. 7. Bound the State of Kentucky. 8. Name the chain of lakes that stretches across North America, in their order, from east to west. 9. Describe the route by water from St. Louis to Baltimore. 5. Give the letters that represent labial sounds, classifying sub-vocals and aspirates. 6. Define digraph and trigraph, and give examples of each. 7. Into what classes are words divided in respect to number of syllables? 8. What is accent? GRAMMAR. 1. What elements must a sentence contain? 2. Name and explain the office of each of the subordinate elements of a sentence. 3. What parts of speech are inflected, and what does inflection express in each? 4. How do you form the possessive case of singular, plural, and compound nouns? 5. In English, how is sex usually denoted? |