The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-08
GEOGRAPHY.

GEOGRAPHY.
]. What is geography?
Q. Name three branches of the Amazon
river.
8. On what waters would you sail from
Chicago TO Baltimore!
4. Name the principal mountains of Asia.
>. Bound Kentucky.
6. Where are the Aleutian Islands?
Z. What is the width in degrees of the Tenn
perate zones?
8. What is latitude?
3. Locate the Adriatic Sea and James Bay.
10. What are the products of Michigan? OF
Louisiana?
GRAMMAR.
l. Give plural of staff, vertex, genius, mouse,
sail; feminine of duke, actor, land
grave, mule, hart.
,. Classify pronouns, giving example of
each class.
3. Define Comparison; compare far, perfect,
handsome, elegant, bad.
4. Give first person singular of the lenses
of Indicative Mood of draw, go, seethe,
swim, weave.
3. Classify adverbs giving example OF each
class
6. Parse italicised words: Vice is a mon
ster of such frightful mien as to be
hated needs bit to be seen; bDt, seen
too oft, tdmiltdr with hts face, we
frst endure. then pity, then embrace.
None bit the brave deserve the fttr.
7. Distinguish between Simple, Complex
and Compound sentences.
8. Classify sentences according to use, de-
fininG each class.
.. OF what may the subject of a sentence
consist?
10. Analyze The King stood still till the
last echo died; then, throwing off the
sackcloth from his brow, and laying
back the pail from the still features of
his child, he bowed his head upon him,
and broke forth in the resistless elo-
Quence of woe.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
l. What is tonnage duty?
>. When is municipal law suspended?
3. Give an example of a tax on production.
4. Into what departments do the States d.
vide their powers?
3. When does the Supreme Court exercise
original jurisdiction?
6. Why was the power TO coin money given
TO Congress?
Z. What is the Presidents power with re-
SpeCl 10 TREATIES!
6. What were the opponents of the Consti-
tuition called?
8. Why does the Constitution forbid Con-
gress to pass an &C post tdct0 law?
10. Who is to declare the punishment of
treason, and how is that punishment
limited?
UNITED STATES HISTORY.
l. Give brief account of the settlement of
Virginia.
>. How did New Netherland come into the
possession of the English?
>. Give date and causes of the French and
Indian war;
4. What is meant by 'Writs of Assistance"
Boston Massacre
.. Give five battles of the Revolution, nam
ing the victor in each.
6. Who was General Hull? What two events
decided the war of 1912?
Z. What is meant by the "Monree DoctrineY,
The missouri COMPROMISED
S. Give causes and results of Mexican war.
8. Name the American generals i'll the fol-
lowing battles: Long Island, Battle
of the Thames, Cerro Gordo. Gettys-
burg, Battle of the Wilderness.
10. Give the first ten presidents of the United
States. with the date of Inauguration
of each.
ARITHMETIC.
/. What is a coin?
=. What is a fraction?
3. Give general principles of fractions.
4. Explain the difference between q. c.. D..
and l.. G. M.
>. makes boot in "a of day, and Is
makes one in three-tfths of day how
many can they both make in one day?
G. A man had G40 acres of land he gave
his son l63 A. . r.. and his daughter
Up A. 10 p: how much has he re-
naming?
I. The difference of time between Valparaiso
and Rome is 6 hr. x min. - sec. :
what is the difference in longitude
8. If tree 20 it, high cast shadow 80 it,,
how long will be the shadow of tree
80 #. high:
9. On one side of roof there are laid 5000
states, the number in the length being
twice the number in the breadth what
is the number each way?
10. gives me his note for $500. due yr.
hence, at 10 per cent, and i sell il 10
the same day at per cent. discount :
how much do realize for the note!