Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-01-19
TEST QUESTIONS
PropOunded at the Belmont Co. Teach
ers Examination, at St Clairsville, Ohio,
January IA, 1888.
L. IL. WATERS.
fDmff final

l.. ii. WATERS.
(Omi tioo.)
l. What is an outline map? A relief
map? How does each differ from the
ordinary map? The use of each?
2. Draw a map of New y Ork, and locate
its principal mountains, rivers, and cities.
g. Name the States that contain no
mountains, and name and locate their
capitals
/. Locate each of the following, and tell
what it is: Manitoba, Tulare, Pampas,
MOrea, Neva, Iran, Cape Breton, Cobb,
Kenia, Melbourne.
5. Name and locate the ten seas of
Europe
6. How are climate and Vegetation af-
fected by latitude? By altitude?
Z. Why should geography be taught in
the public schools? What is its diSciplin-
ary value?
ARITHMETIC.
COmn ttuo)
l. Give full explanation of the process
of subtraction when figure exceeds in
value the one from which it is to be sub
tracted. State the principle upon which
the process depends.
2. How do you find the area OF rect
Gngles Why? Find the area of tTi-
feet. Prove.
8. A can NOW g of field in days, B
q of it in 4 days, and c. 40 of it i'll = days,
how long will it take c to finish it, after
4 and B have worked days? AnalyZe.
4. A note of $500, bearing interest at q
per cent, was discounted for 63 days at s
per cent, and yielded 500; for what time
was the note given?
= Nha 70 Aofnd N 1
1885; $40 was paid Jan. 10, 1887; 50 Sept.
to-day?
6. Extract the square root of 6254.8,
and give the reason for each step in the
process.
Z. Make a grocer's bill of five items,
receipt it, and sign your own name as
clerk
US. HISTORY.
&C. MURPHY.
(Omn any tIrO)
l. What European nations made settle
ments in North America? Locate the
settlement and give date of each.
9. Give account of the early attempts
to unite the colonies of North America.
Why was it so difficult?
3. Write concerning the following:
Perry's victory, ArnOld's treason, Black
Hawk, and Q. Adams.
4. Name the States that compose the
Southern COnfederacy." What slave
States did not seeede?
5. Write concerning the growth of the
United States.
8. What questions caused the most
trouble in the convention that framed
the Constitution?
Z. Give the history of the National
Bank.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
(Oma one, your lCOrIt IciH he 0rdded)
l. Classify the elementary sounds.
9. Give all the substitutes for a, e, and
u.
3. Spell and indicate the pronunciation:
there, sir, tiZik, Yosemite, elite, nemOnik,
dominOes, and artizan.
4. Define orthOepy, spelling, mute, syll-
able, and phOnetics.
.. Correct and give reasons for change:
unlegal, incorrect, ableness, inrecOncila-
BILE, anteoccupy,
g. What are homOphonons? Name five
READING.
(OInit any tlCO.)
/. Give at some length yOIlr method of
teaching beginners to read.
2. Name some of the most common de-
fects met with among our readers. How
may they be corrected?
3. Define supplementary reading. Why
and how use?
T. Name five of our leading poets, and
selection from each.
8. Give an example of the different
kinds of emphasis.
&. How do you make use of the reading
text books?
Z. Ask and answer five questions on
the following:
'.Spake full well in language quaint and olden,
One who dweleth by the castled Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden,
Stars that in earth's armament do shine"
WRITING.
(Omit any tiUO.)
|. Write and indicate the height of g,
p, 8, +, h, andt.
2. Do you teach form or movement
first? Why?
3. Analyze S, t, W, y, and d.
4. What attention do you give to writ
ing?
5. Define space in width, in length
principle, and base.
and T. Write quotation from Long
fellow
THEORY AND PACTICE.
II. L. PECK.
(Omh tip0)
1. State some of the advantages of oral
spelling; of written spelling.
2. At what period in the pupils school
life would you have him begin regular
language lessons? At what period gram
mar?
3. How would you teach the multipli-
cation table?
4. State some of the advantages in
written examinations; some of the
dangers.
5. To what extent, and in what man
ners should the teacher try to exercise
control over the pupils acts on the way
to and from school?
6. State reasons why Higher Arithmetic
should or should not be taught in country
schools.
T. Suggest means of improving the
country schools.
--GRAMMAR.
(Omh tluO.)
l. What do you understand "idiOms
and "idiomatic expressions" to be ?
Write one.
2. Show clearly the difference in meaning
between these sentences: a. The govern
ment supports the schools in which man.
ual instruction is given. (2) The govern
ment supports the schools, in which man.
ual instruction is given.
3. What are the purposes of punctua-
ton? Do you teach that commas, periods,
etc, indicate pauses to be observed in
readingp
4. Give reasons for beginning proper
nouns, proper adjectives, appellatiOns of
Deity, &c, with capitals. Capitalize and
punctuate: can you pronounce french
words in danger be calm cool and reso-
lutte stark was bold resolute soldier.
5. Write a letter to CHM & Co., whose
place of business is in Boston, Mass, Or
dering copy of "HOw to Speak and