The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-05-16
BOXWELL EXAMINATION

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Following the questions submitted the examination
Saturday, May H. for school pupils under the BOxwel law:
PHYSIOLOGY
Explain each of the following connection with the skin:
CUTS, cuticle, mucous membrane
Give the structure and of the ligaments; tendons
Trace the of the blood through the What pre-
vents the blood from flowing backward?
Whose bones break easier yours your grandfahs Why?
Name some foods would eat to produce fat Why is milk
desirable food?
6. OF what to the body is exercise?
T. Give the location and use of the saiyary glands.
Mention the organs of which the system
Locate the following: Eusachian tub iris, fbula, bic ps
gastric juice.
TO- Why alcohol always injurious? Is coffee harmful smu-
liant? Why or why not?
GEOGRAPHY.
Which greater the polar the equatorial diameter of the
earth? Why?
Locate five important cities of the world that
islands
Why do the largest Ohio southe decton
certain city l25' from the North Pole In what is
Name the largest smallest state in the Union and tell
for what industries each is noted.
Explain the following terms oherm, metropolis, capitol,
breakwater, steppes.
What is penal colony? tell to what country
each belongs.
Locate important cod oyster and salmon fisheries of North
State feature in which the government of Britain
resembles our own; in which it differs.
TO- Where each of the following: District of Columbia Ever
gades Yosemite Valley, BarhOldi Statue of Liberty yell
If your father buys house and lot for $4,000 with the under
standing that he is to pay u of the amount cash and the
remainder at the end of year and months with interest
at 80, how much does he then owe?
e. If the bookseller of town buys his pencils for $916
gross and sells them to the school children for cents apiece
how much money does he make box containing gross
o. dealer sold automobile for 500 less than the marked
price, thereby throwing off 1?%o. At what price did he
T. If tied to stake Craze half acre. what
the length of the rope by which she is tehered?
Last November there two cloudy days every clear
III
When shingles cost S475 per thousand what will be the cost
OF Singing soplng roof, each slope being 81 by 49, if
1000 shingles allowed to l25 So. it.?
How is the principal found when the time, and interest
known?
g. hotel is insured for q of its value at 1 PREMIUM and
the premium amounts to $3.50. What is the value of the
H regiment of 1000 soldiers consumes 10000 pounds of bread
in Is days, how many pounds will regiment Of 1850
consume in 80 days?
TO- If the entire surface a cubca box 5O46 o n what is
its edge?
UNITED STATES HISTORY
l. When and by whom the Mississippi River discovered and
explored? The Hudson River?
T. How could have travelled from New York Boston
1j 1SS? About out how many years later were railroads intro
g. Tell what you British enforce the Stamp Act
Why do you remember four of the following
with the Revolution Gen Burgoyne, Benedict Arnold Paul
Revere John Paul JONES' Robert Morris Anthony Wayne?
g. WHY WHY were y1 the Alien and % Ssdion Laws unjust?
g. What brought about the War of 1912? How did this war
By whom Texas largely settled? Why was there objection
in the North to its annexation?
g. What was the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg? Apo
mattox?
g. Write briefly upon the financial condition of the South at the
close of the Civil War
TO- Where and upon what OCCASION President Mckinley
assassnated?
WRITING.
In this branch examiners will grade the manuscript orhography
ORTHOGRAPHY
l. What is primitive word? dervative word? Form
derivative word from each of the followng DESIRE Ohio
rogue, progress.
Illustrate word the each of the follow
ing: hyphen sacron, primary accent, secondary accent
prefix
Write with the proper diacrta different sounds
Of the letter a. How many sounds has the letter o?
Give rule of spelling for the formation of the plural of
monkey; rule for the formation of the past tense of
benefit
Spell correctly each the following words to be pronounced
gaop rowdies blonde, foretel gauging DELINQUENT mis-
spell, synonym frolcsome peaceable symmetry Theodore
Roosevelt visible, coerce, fascinate, epleptc
Examiners will conduct oral examination in reading.
GRAMMAR
What grammatical relation exists between relative pronoun
and its antecedent? Name all the simple relative ponouns
Write the principal parts of the following ought
bid choose and fly
Name three classes of coniuncons The which
or classes makes sentence compund?
4. Write sentence containing clause used adjective
modifer sentence containing predicate nfnitve
What parts of speech may modify? What parts of
speech may modify noun?
What prcpe? illustrate four ways which partcpes
may be used
TO- Write letter to OF your friends telling him (or her
why you wish to receive high school education