Amador ledger., 1906-09-14
Examination
Questions
Teachers Examination, Amador coun-
ty, Aug, 1906.
General Questions.

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did you receive your education?
4 4. Whatsevidence can you present
for proof of moral character?
8. What diplomas or certificates do
you hold?
q. What experience have you had in
teaching? Where?
Z. What credentials for teaching do
you now hold that are in full force
and effect?
S.What grade of certificate are you
now applying for?
9. Is it your intention to engage in
teaching?
Written Geography 80 credits.
l. Name important cities of the
world in different countries on or
near the same parallel of San Fran
cisco.
2. Name exports from the follow
ing countries brazil, United States
of America. Japan, Spain. and British
Central Africa.
3. Locate and name the following:
Superior, Iceland, Hoang-ho, Kio-
len, and Valparaiso.
4. Define commerce. do
nestle, inland; and how maintained?
5. For what are the following cities
noted San Francisco, Chicago,
Paris, Rome, Calcutta?
6. How are icebergs formed? where
numerous?
Z. Why does the western slope of
the Andes mountains have compare
lively little rainfall?
8. Describe one ocean current.
9. What determines the width of
the 1orrid Zone? /
10. The Mississippi river is con-
sidered the principal water way.
Oral Geography. % credits.
l. Why is the climate .of North
Western coast of the Unified States
warmer than the climate of the
Atlantic coast in the same latitude?
2. What circles bound the Temper
ate Zones?
3. Name the principal industries of
California.
4. Locate some of the worlds great
umbering regions.
5. Where located New Orleans,
st. Louis, Vienna, and Greenwich?
Oral Grammar. % credits.
l. Decline the pronoun of the third
person. masculine gender.
2 Classify and analyze:-<
Can honor's voice provoke the silent
dust,
Or fiattery sooth the dull, cold ear of
death?
5. Name two instances in which a
noun is in the nominative case. Give
sentences to illustrate.
4. Give the principal parts of the
following verbs burst, tear, swim,
drink, wind.
5. What is syntax?
Oral History. % credits.
l. What question was disposed of
by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
2. Why did the colony founded by
VIM Penn never have any trouble
with the Indians?
3. What became of jamestown, built
by the English in 1908?
4. What colony was founded by
James Oglethorp and peopIed by
criminals freed from English jails?
5. Describe or trace the wanderings
of De Soto.
Oral Physiology. % credits.
l. How many teeth in the milk set?
In the permanent setY
2. How does the blood get inside of
bones?
8. Why does it not hurt to cut hair
and nails?
4. What does the brain need?
5. Name the special senses.
Reading-Oral, 25 credits.
Read the first two paragraphs otithe
Mouse and the Moonbeam, page SO,
and one stanza of Helgho, my Dearie,
page 80, Fourth Reader, California
State Series.
Drawing, % credits.
l. What is meant by perspective?
2. Give four ways In which you
think drawing benefits children.
3. What is the center of vision?
How many classes of lines are there?
4. Draw and shade a two-inch cube
ANY position.
5. Draw design for a parIor
carpet. Represent basket-position
in front and below the eye.
Grammar, 100 credits.
l. Name and illustrate three kinds
of sentences according to form.
2. Write sentences containing the
following used as adjective modifiers
.(a) possessive noun; (b) appositive
pronoun; &C., clause; (d) phrase; (e)
participle.
3. Name and illustrate in sentences
five uses of the noun.
& 5. Parse the underlined words
in the following sentence Burned
Marmiom's swarthy cheek like fire.
6. Give rules for forming the
possessive of connected nouns show
ing joint possession, and of connect
ed nouns showing separate possessi on.
Give sentences to illustrate each rule.
| z. What does a compound personal