Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-03-05
THE NORTHWEST
Examinations i'm the Public Schools

Examinations in the PuDilc SchOOIs.
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Following is list of some of the
questions propounded to the scholars
in the Napoleon Union Schools at the
examinations held last week at the
close of the second term:
Twelfth Year-Political Economy.
1. What is money? What constitutes
the best money? Why? When may
other media be properly used? Upon
what does the amount required depend?
2. What are the incidental uses of
money? What occasions the fiuctua-
tions in its value? What is the difference
between an excess of paper money not
redeemable in coin, and the excess of
the same redeemable in coin? What
regulates the excesses and deficiencies
of money?
3. Would national legislation make a
piece of brass of proper weight and
properly stamped, equivalent to like
denomination of gold? Why? Did the
price of goods rise during and fall after
The war? What are the effects of too
little money?
4. Upon what does the distribution of
wealth depend? How does capital differ
from labor? What are the relations OF
capital to labor?
B.. What are the principal causes of
strikes? How are they to be avoided?
q. What is meant by Free Trade?
Which system will be more conducive
10 our nations prosperity, the one now in
force or free trade? Give your reasons.
7. Distinguish between q protective
and revenue tariff What is the JUS
tice of taxation? Which form of tax is
leistf by the people, and which is the
most equitable? State the evils and ad-
vantages of indirect taxation.
[Select Six.
Eleventh Year-General History.
1. Name the divisions of Medeaeval
History and what the Barbarians had to
do with the changes which introduced
the Dark Ages.
9. OF what power and service was the
church during the Dark Ages? De-
scribe the reign of Justinian.
3. Describe the rise and decline ofthe
Mohammedan dynasty. The story of
Mohammed. Invasions of his success
sors. The three Moslem Empires.
Their progress in civilization. Give
some incidents of Mohammeds life.
4. Describe the feudal system. AS
an institution of government, how did
it become oppressive, and by what
means was it overthroWn"
S. Describe the Northmen and their
conquests in the East; the rise of their
italian kingdom; their conquest of Eng
land.
G. What We're the effects of the cru
sades? Name the military orders es-
tablished; their after service, and tell
what became of them.
7. Describe the rise and importance
of italian cities and merchants. What
effect did they exert upon the civiliza-
ton of southern Europe. Give the
dates of VIM, the conqueror in Eng
land, and ofany five Kings ruling after
him and before the time of Henry VIII.
8. Describe theWars of the Roses and
their consequences.
8. Who were the Albigenses? AS
sign cause for the Popes' crusade
against them, and state the result. De-
scribe Louis IXth reign.
10. What inventions and discoveries
marked the close of the Medeaveal pc
riod? Describe the characters of Ferdi.
nand and Isabella; name some of the
great teachers of the middle ages.
II. What led to the reformation?
Who was Luther? Why were his fol-
lowers called protestants? Describe the
reign and character of Henry VIII.
12. What occasioned the organization
of the Tory and Wing parties? Give
the dates and causes which gave to Eng
land three great charters of personal
liberty. Describe the Commonwealth.
[select Ten.]
Eleventh Year-Geometry.
|. Define: Complement and supple
ment of an angle; diedral angle; poly
edral angle; sperical segment.
2. State the principles involved in
proving that the volume of q pyramid
is equal to the product of the base by
ene-third of the altitude.
3. Demonstrate: That the sum of the
plane angles formed by the edges of any
polyedral angle, is less than four right
angles.
4. Prove that the volume of any rec
tangular parallelopipedon is equal to
the product of its three dimensions
5. The radius of sphere is ten feet;
find the area of a small circle distant
from the center six feet.
6. Find the convex surface and the
volume ola cone whose frustum has an
altitude of six feet and upper and lower
bases four and eight feet respectively in
diameter.
7. A cone having the diameter of its
base equal to its slant height is circum.
scribed about a sphere; How will the
entire surfaceof the former compare
with the surface of the latter? How will
their volumes compare?
8. From what formula do we derive
the arithmetical rule, involving .523f
and the diameter of sphere to find its
volume? State the principles essential
to its demonstration.
3. Show that the inclination of line
to plane-that is the angle which the
line makes with its own projection on
the plane-is the least angle made by
the fine with any line of the plane.
10. Demonstrate: Every point in the
plane which bisects diedral angle is
equally distant from the faces Of the
angle.
Eleventh hYear--Chemistry.
I. Distinguish between nitrous oxide
and nitric oxide as to chemical compo