The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-28
THE SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.
Tests to Which the Pupils Were Sub
fecte.i for Promotfon

Something of the standing of the schools of
Seattle can be seen from the examinations to
which the pupils were subjected at the close OF
the year. These tests were the same for each
grade in all the schools, the papers being pre-
pared by the superintendent with the assistance
of the grade teachers. The work of the pupils
in nearly every instance showed gratifying pro-
gress. Samples OF a few of the papers, chosen
almost at random from the sets, follow:
ARITHMETIC.
Eighth year.. From III take s-5 of 81 and
multiply the remainder by "a. 2 Multiply 625
many yards of carpeting y of yard wide viii it
take TO cover parlor 49, feet long and Is feet
wide? 4. What is the value OF pile of wood 40
feet long, feet wide and Oh feet high, at s. q
cord? s. An agent makes 20 per cent by selling
a book at 70 cents. If he had sold 1t for 81 what
per cent. would he have made? g. What is the
Of for FyS re months and 10
which discounted at 6 per cent for 90 days
yields s34f.57. s. A line 60 feet long reaches
from the top of house IS feet high TO the bot
tom of q house on the opposite side of the street
find the width OF the street 9. A can do a
piece of work in days, B in days, and G in 10
days. How much OF it can they do in days, all
working together?
GEOGRAPHY.
Seventh year,. What valuable woods are OBJ
tanned from the forests of the Amazon and its
branches? 2. What animal products from the
pampas and Southern Brazil? g. What river
drains a large part of the pampas? 1. How is the
surface of South America divided? 5. What
countries of South America border on the Carib-
bean sea? g. What and where is Caracass Lima?
Buenos Ayres? Trinidad? st. Rogue? Coto-
paxi? Darien? Titicaca? :. What is the extent
Of the trade OF Brazil with the United states? 8.
What three oceans wash the shores of Asia?
9. What continents on the west? TO- What
mountain system forms its southern border? IL.
What two rivers cross the plain of China?
II. What and where is Tomsk? Yokohoma?
Saghalien? Formosa? Corea? Taurus? Euphrates?
IL. OF what empire is Egypt part? IA Which
is the most elevated country in Africa? Is. De-
scribe the effect OF the tropical rains upon the
Lower Nile? l6. What and where is Tunis?
Nubia? Niger? Port Said? Suez? Algiers?
LANGUAGE.
Eighth year,. Diagram or write the analysis
of 81 agree with the commercial traveller who
says that it will only be in the millennium that
all goods viii be alike on both sides 2. Com
pose a complex interrogative sentence and let
the dependent clause denote time. 3. Compose
a sentence with a compound predicate 4. Com
bers shall be complex II had read of the
soothing companionship of the forest, the pleas
nres of the painless woods; but thought, as
stumbled along in the dismal actuality, that il
ever got out of ii, would write a letter to the
newspapers exposing the whole thing" s. Parse
chad read. 6. Parse pleasures" !. Parse "but.'
s. Parse ..letter." g. Make simple sentence out
of the following group: There was pious
Brahmin. He made VOW. He vowed that he
would sacrifice q sheep. He would do this on a
certain day. On the appointed morning he
the following facts into well arranged SEN
fences; 1.-The fox thirsty; comes to q
his fill unable to get ont; goat comes to the
mouth; looks down; asks if the water is good !;
| the fox entices the goat to come down; the goat
| leaps into the well, and drinks; cannot leap up
| again; the fox asks him to set his forefeet
against the wall; gets up on his horns and
springs out of the well; declines TO help the goat
to get out; taunts him with having more beard
| than brains"
| SPELLING.
| Eighth year.: Mortgagor. .. Conqueror s.
Parenthesis I. Mussel, an animal s. Tan
9. Flannel. 10. Sergeant IL Proiectile' 10
| Fragile. IL. Tissue IA. Dyspepsia l5 Pneu-
monia. l6 Bicycle: H. Iodine. IS. Capillary.
10. opossum. 20 Masquerade.
| DRAWING.
| Drawing book No. ST. Draw the ton and
| front view of the square pyramid facing p
Give rule for horizontal receding lines above the
| level of the eye. Below the level of the eve. r
Give rule for horizontal parallel ,eceding lines
| In drawing the appearance of an object
| which line do we draw first? Why? s. Draw
the appearance of square plinth placed at an
angle of IS degrees below the level CT the eve. 8
! Draw square prism placed upright at an angle
OF A. degrees. and so that the center will be on
| level with the eye. :. Ii cube is turned az an
angle of Is degrees aud placed so that the top is
on level with the eye, how will we represent the
| top? Why? s. Draw atrapezium a unit of de
sign Modify ii using wholly or in part curved
| lines making as good an ornamental form as you
| can invent 9 and 10. Place book at any angle
you please. Place another on it parallel with
| your horizon line, aud draw the group
MUSIC
Eighth grade-l and . Defue note. triplst: :
| and l. define slur, tie: 5 and s, write the frs,
four scales in order indicating where the half
steps come; and S, draw the staff and mark the
| lines and spaces with the pitch. tletter) names
indicating where the half-steps come; O. write
tho following in the key of A, in triple measure
using quarter notes; Nj, ia, re, do Is, mi sol 81
Ia, re, mi, do, sol, la, fa TO- write the above in
| the key of q.