The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-04-17
POINTED QUESTIONS
Asked of Persons Who Took the
ExaminatiOn-What The
List Contained.

used at the teachers examination held
at the High school Saturday:
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
1. Distinguish clearly between a re-
public and monarchy. Name exam
pies of each.
2. Define the terms neutrality, natu-
ralization, insurgent, misprison and ju-
dietary.
3. Name six powers of congress.
4. How often and in what manner is
the census taken? When will the next
census be taken?
s. What are the duties of the vice.
president? Who performs these duties
in his absence?
6. Distinguish between the follow
ing: ambassador, minister, consul.
z. Give an outline Of the different
kinds of state courts in Ohio. How are
the judges chosen?
s. Name the commercial powers
which the states are forbidden to exer-
else.
U. S. HISTORY.
/. What evidence exists which indi-
Gates the occupancy of this continent
by civilized race before the Indians?
2. What territory of the New World
was claimed by England, France and
Holland, respectively? Upon what
were these claims based?
8. Describe Bacon's rebellion. Name
the Dutch governors Of New York.
A. Explain the origin of Mason and
Dixon's line. What significance at
tached to 1t during the war of the re-
bellion?
5. Name the great naval hero of the
revolutionary war. Describe his most
noted engagement.
6. Give one essential fact regarding
each of the following: Arnold, Har-
ward, Marshall, Meade, Whitney, Penn
berton, Horace Greeley and Stanton.
Z. Name the most important naval
actions of the war of the rebellion.
s. Name the presidential candidates
of 1860, and the parties and principles
they represented.
8. Describe the political incidents
which led to the admission of Texas.
10. Compare the ideas Of Hamilton
and those of Jefferson as to political
matters.
GRAMMAR.
Applicants for primary certificates
VIII omit the last two questions. Others
omit the first two.
2. Explain the definition of the parti-
ciple.
g. Name the classes Of connectives
used in complex sentences.
A. Why is the case of a pronoun so
easily determined?
5. Define elision and ellipsis. Ilus-
trate.
g. Write a complex sentence con-
n q n n ftrn al
Recast 1t into simple sentence.
Z. Write sentence in which a parti-
ciple appears clearly to be used as a
verb and noun.
s. Write compound sentence Trans
form it into a complex sentence.
g. Define modifier. OF what may it
consist?
10. Write a complex sentence con-
tanning subject clause.
IL. Illustrate the different kinds of
agreement in grammar; the different
kinds of government.
u. Diagram: Literature uuickens
the imagination, widens the horizon, re-
fines the taste, and provides some of
the highest pleasures of which human
nature is capable"
ARITHMETIC-PR
begin at the right hand to add?
2. Show by example that division is a
brief method Of finding how many times
one number can be subtracted from an
other.
9. A pole is one-fifth in the mud. one
fourth in the water and A feet in the
air. How many feet in III. mu and
how many in the water?
Char1ac Iyao ~ ,,oi1a, r.z~.
school house. If 1t takes him six and
two-thirds minute to 60 u mile, how
long will 1t take him to go to school?
B. IF man working S1s hours a
day can finish piece Of work in u
days, how many hours per day must
he work to complete 1t in SA days?
6. What is the exact value of (3 plus
2lsminue y of 6-2 plus 4 over 2-s) di-
vided by 1-5?
7. What will be the cost of fencing
rectangular lot IS rods by "a rods at 1S%
cents per foot?
s. Find the cost of plastering the sides
and ceiling Of room IS IT. long bv 1s
1T. and ~ 1T. high, at 35 cents per square
yard.
.. Mr.. III. sold two houses for S3. 600
each. On the one he gained 25 per cent
flno the per cent, Of gain or loss on the
transaction.
10. .O5625 divided by 1.25 multiplied by
8. equal what?
ARITHMETIC.
Applicants For grammar grade certii.
Gates will omit the last two problems.
Applicants for principals certificate will
omit the first two questions.
!. Define abstract number. Concrete
number.
2. Give a problem in multiplication
In which the multiplicand is a concrete
number. When is the product an alb
stract number, and when a concrete
number?
3. Multiplying the dividend or divid-
Ing the division by any number, has
what effect on the Quotient? Dividing
the dividend or multiplying the divisor