The following questions
were taken from an eighth grade exam given by Ruth Regenberg Andersen
who taught at Hoosier Grove School from 1933 to 1935. This is
not the complete exam. Most of the subjects had seven questions
and students were expected to answer five of them. These questions
were chosen to represent the degree of difficulty and the range
of topics that would have been covered.
English and Literature
1. Write correctly eight or more lines of a poem which you like,
giving the title of the poem and the name of the author.
2. (a) Name five books you have read this year and give the
author of each.
(b) Make a very brief book review of one.
3. Rewrite these sentences choosing the correct words:
I (seen, saw) your brother but I haven't (saw, seen) you.
What is the (lying, laying) on the table?
(This, these) kind of grapes never tastes (sweetly, sweet).
I couldn't see (no, any) bird (anywhere, nowhere) in the park.
4. Name the most important characters in any one of the following
selections: "Snow Bound" "Evangeline" "A Christmas Carol."
History
1. Name two great colonial leaders during the Revolutionary War.
Show how each played an important part in our separation from
England.
2. Write a fact about seven of the following: Admiral Byrd,
Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, John J. Pershing, Commander
Peary, Robert E. Lee, Adolph Hitler, Henry Clay, Benito Mussolini
and William McKinley.
3. What form of government is a democracy? A dictatorship?
Give examples of each.
