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1. Add 75 ten-millionths, 42 ten-thousandths, .37, .427, 57.3004, and 44 thousandths into one sum.

2. 156 25 1.3

175 X 2 ÷ .15

what?

√930 +1668.

3. Perform the work meant by this

4. If the wheels of a gig are 3 feet high and the tires 6 feet apart, and if the gig be driven round the inside of a track, circular in form and 34 miles in diameter, how many more times will the outer wheel turn round than the inside wheel?

5. In the corner of a room there is a pile of wheat in quarter-cone form, whose height is 5 feet and whose slant height is 8 feet. What number of bushels in it?

6. In a triangular field of corn there is 1 hill at the angle and 3 hills in the row next to it, and so on, and there are 41 rows in the field. What number of hills in the whole field?

77 7. Reduce to approximating fractions, and show there can be but four of them. 175

8. Mr. A buys a carriage for £40 18s. 4d., and sells it to cent. Mr. M then sells it to Mr. R at a loss of 10 per cent. cost does Mr. R pay?

Mr. M at a profit of 10 per
What per cent. of the first

9. A bean vine winds 12 times round a column 20 feet high, passing at equal distances from the bottom to the top. If the column is cylindrical and 1 foot in diameter, what is the length of the bean vine?

10. Three poles, each 50 feet long, were erected on a plane so that their upper ends met together, and the lower ends were each 60 feet apart. How long is the rope which reaches from the point of meeting to the ground?

GEOGRAHHY.

1. What four causes coöperate to produce the seasons as they exist at present ? 2. Where do the people have one day and one night in the year each 24 hours long? 3. Define plateau, glacier, moraine, loch, and sierra.

4. What waters are connected and what countries separated by the Bosphorus ?

5. Name and locate the highest mountain in each grand division.

6. Name the principal volcanic regions on the globe.

7. What are and where are Pepin, Fezzan, Teneriffe, Marquesas, and Manilla?

8. Name the States of the United States in which iron ore is obtained in paying quantities.

9. How does Ohio compare in area with Portugal ?

10. Name the most populous six couuties in Ohio, and give their county seats.

GRAMMAR.

1. What is the difference between analysis and parsing?

2. Decline thou, who, which, I, and it.

3. Write the present tense, past tense, and past participle of the following verbs, giving both forms when two are used: Ride, catch, load, eat, ring, burst, dive, get, thrust, greet, and work.

4. Write the possessive plural of woman, loaf, it, thou, and ox; the plural of handful, money, focus, chrysalis, miasma.

5. Define collective and verbal nouns, and write a sentence containing an example of each..

6. Analyze the following sentences and parse underscored words:

Teach me what is true.

Talent is something, but tact is ever thing.

7. Much depends upon who the commissioners are. Parse upon.

8.

I know him to be your friend. Parse him.

9. Make the necessary corrections in the following:

Either James or william have to stay at home.
George learned him music.

He laid down to take a nap.

10. What do you mean by an idiom? Give an example.

HOCKING COUNTY.

ARITHMETIC.

1. Define arithmetic, unit, number, a concrete and an abstract number.

2. Name and define the methods of expressing numbers.

3. What are the principles of addition?

4. What is a fraction? a common fraction? a proper fraction? a simple fraction? a complex fraction? also, the difference between a common and decimal fraction.

5. When gold was worth 25 per cent. more than currrney, what was the gold value of $1.50 in currency?

6. How much cloth at $5 per yard must I sell to gain $1.00 by selling at 25 per cent. profit?

7. Two men, A and B, start from the same point, and one walks 192 miles due north, and the other 144 miles due east: how far are they apart?

8. The age of A is five-thirds of the age of B, and the sum of their ages, plus half the age of B, equals twice the age of A, minus 2 years. What is the age of each?

9. If 4 men can dig a ditch 72 rods long, 5 ft. wide, and 2 ft. deep in 12 days, how many men can dig a ditch 120 rods long, 6 ft. wide, and 1 ft. 6 in. deep in 9 days?

10. How many cubic inches in a cannon ball whose diameter is 7 inches?

GRAMMAR.

1. What is language, and what does it include?

2. How many elementary sounds has the English language, and how are they expressed?

3. What branch of grammar treats of the meaning of words, and in how many and what ways is the meaning of a word learned?

4. What is a compound word? Which part is accented, and why?

5. How many and what classes of modifiers does the verb admit?

6. What is the inflection of a verb called, and why are verbs inflected?

7. How many simple and compound tenses do verbs have? Name and define each, with examples.

8. When is a verb redundant defective?

9. What is meant by the construction of a word?

10. What are prefixes? suffixes? For what are they used? 11. Analyze the following sentence:

"I sometime hold it half a sin

To put in words the grief I feel.”

12. Parse the italicized words in the same sentence.

GEOGRAPHY.

1. By what are day and night caused, and why are they of different lengths at different times and places?

2. What are isothermal lines, and why so called?

3. Name the different movements of the waters of the ocean, and define each.

4. Where on the earth's surface do the days begin?

5. Name and define the lines and circles used in mathematical geography.

6. Name and define the natural and artificial divisions of water.

7. Define climate, and state the circumstances that modify it.

8. Give the area, population, number of counties, principal cities, and cereal and mineral productions of Ohio.

9. Give and locate the principal rivers, lakes, mountains, cities, productions, and natural curiosities of the United States.

10. What are the different forms of government extant in the world, and where is each kind found?

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2. What inflection does language of emphasis require?

3. When do questions take the rising inflection?

4. How should a clause inclosed in a parenthesis be read ?

5. What is the use of a monotone?

6. What is relative emphasis ?

7. What is accent? articulation?

8. What is voice? gesture?

9. What are poetic pauses

10. What is the difference between emphasis and inflection?

THEORY AND PRACTICE.

1. Give your theory and practice of teaching.

2. How do you teach spelling? and definitions?

3. Give briefly your order of daily exercises.

4. How best ventilate your school-room?

5. Give some of the best methods of dealing with unruly scholars, and your own experience as a teacher.

PENMANSHIP.

1. Under what heads is the proper method of teaching penmanship classed?

2. Give the elements in teaching penmanship.

3. Give position when writing.

4. How should the pen be held?

5. Give movements.

HOLMES COUNTY.

LANGUAGE.

Misspelled words and the wrong use of capital letters will detract from the grade in this branch.

1. Pluralize story, monkey, jockey, is, was, goes, princess, monarch, radius, index, 7, h, gulf, and dozen.

2. Give a sentence containing adjective and adverbial phrases.

3. Give possessive plural of horse, ox, man, woman, and child.

4. Correct and punctuate: I heard a Man say Oh what an accident A man has fell from the house.

5. Give a sentence containing two predicate adjectives.

6. Give a sentence containing a proper and common adjective.

7. Give a sentence containing an interrogative adverb.

8.

Give a sentence containing the perfect participle.

9. Give a sentence containing an infinitive as the subject.

10. Give a sentence containing the direct and indirect object.

11. Give a sentence containing an adverb of place.

12. Give principal parts of fly, forsake, rend, set, sit, and eat.

13. Parse italicized words: Mark well my fall, and that that ruined me.

14. Give a sentence containing an element of the third class.

15. Give meaning of anti, ante, co, mal, sub, and un.

16. Give examples of letters that have continuous and explosive sounds.

17. Give words containing a diphthong, digraph, and trigraph.

18. Spell correctly: Bilious, waggon, tung, tongs, rintz, knat, odor, declension, Cincinnatti, and Massachusets.

19. Give sentence examples showing the four ways sentences are used.

20. Write five facts; subject, "The Qualifications of the Teacher."

1. What is the shape of the earth?

GEOGRAPHY.

2. What produces day and night, and what a change of seasons?

3. What is latitude and longitude? and give the highest degrees of each. 4. What is a desert? and locate one.

5. On what waters would you sail in going from Calcutta to New York?

6. Name some of the peculiarities of the inhabitants of the torrid zone.

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8. Bound North America, and name its principal cities.

9. What religion prevails in the United States?

10. Locate Havana and St. Salvador.

11. Locate and give the length of the St. Lawrence River.

12. What natural division of land does Nova Scotia form?

13. Name the States of the Union that border on the Atlantic Ocean.

14. How is the government of the United States administered?

15. What direction from the capital of this State is the capital of Massachusetts ?

16. What is the bed of a river in distinction from its basin?

17. What are springs? and give the classes.

18. Locate the Alleghany Mountains.

19. What is rain, and in what countries is the greatest fall?

20. Bound Michigan, and give its capital.

ARITHMETIC.

1. What is a compound number?

2. Explain ratio and proportion, simple and compound.

3. In what are simple and compound numbers analagous? In what do they differ?

4.

Paid $23.40 for the use of $260 for two years: what was the rate per cent?

5. of a ton of wine leaked out: how much remained?

6. At $1,000, an acre, what is the value of a piece of land 44 yards long and 20 feet wide?

7. I bought a horse for $105, due in six months, and sold him at once for $125: find the gain per cent., interest being 10 per cent.

8. What part of 15 bu. is 5 pks. 34 qts.? Give the answer in decimals.

9. From the sum of 34 and 4 subtract their difference, and divide the result by the product.

10. of my money equals of yours; we both have $74: how much has each?

11. How many rods of square fence will inclose a square farm containing 40 acres? 12. From 1.3 acres subtract 26 rods.

13. What are the prime factors common to 210 and 315?

14. What is the difference between interest and other applications of percentage?
15. Find the bank discount of a note for $1,780, payable in 90 days.
16. What will be the cost of 11 gross of buttons at 43 cents a dozen?

17. When of a yard of velvet cost $5, what will of a yard cost?
18. Define quantity, L. C. M., notation, decimals, and cube root.
19. What is the unit of number?

20. Write a promissory note for $575, due in 60 days, interest 10 per cent.

HURON COUNTY.

ARITHMETIC.

1. Define a figure; a number; an integer; an abstract number; a problem.

2. Write the signs used in arithmetic, and illustrate the use of each.

3. A had 2-5 of a certain fortune; B had 4-13 of it, and C the remainder, which was $760: what was the fortune?

4. In 10 bu., 3.5 pks., 7 2-5 qts., 1 pt. how many pints?

5. What will it cost to plaster a room, at 18 cents a square yard, whose length is 30

feet 10 inches, width 29 feet 6 inches, and heighth of ceiling 8 feet 4 inches?

6. A has a dollar, and B 3-5 of a dollar; what per cent. of A's money equals B's, and what per cent. of B's money equals A's?

7. A sold 72 turkeys, which was 32 per cent. of the number he had remaining: how many had he at first?

8. Divide two thousand and five by two hundred and five thousandths.

9. What is the distance from the lower to the opposite upper corner of a room 24 ft. long, 18 ft. wide, and 8 ft. high?

10. A bought 20 pieces of cloth, giving for the first $2, and for the last $40; the prices of the pieces form an arithmetical series: how much did the cloth cost?

GEOGRAPHY.

1. Why and how do degrees of longitude vary in length?

2. What are the great circles? Name and define them.

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