Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-14
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York County School Teachers Must
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RECENT Quiz A STIFF One
Some 81 lthe Questions Put to Pros
psetive Teachers at Recent Exan,i-
nation Held In YorkviIIe-still Their
Average Pay 10 Less than that Of
Day Laborers. q.
That the questions for teachers ex-
animation prepared by the state board
of education and submitted to teachers
and prospective teachers who took the
examination in the courthouse in
Yorkville a few days ago successful
passage Of which would entitle them to
certificates to teach was the hardest"
in years was the opinion Of several of
the teachers who have stood similar
tests before.
Eighty per cent. average with not
less than SO per cent, on any one
branch will entitle the applicant to a
First Grade Certificate. Seventy per
cent. average with not less than As
per cent. on any one branch entities
the applicant to Second Grade Ger
tificate. Sixty per cent. average with
not less than 40 per cent. on any one
branch entities the applicant to a
Third Grade Certificate.
Following were some Of the ques-
tions asked:
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Agriculture.
1. (a) WHAT'S meant by sour or acid
soils? a
(b) What is the cause and what
is the remedy?
z 2. (a) What would you consider an:
ideal soil?
tb) What are the methods of OBJ
tanning It?
8. (a) What birds and insects are
friends of the farmer?
(b) Which are enemies?
4. (a) What is the benefit to the
farmer of the honey bees work?
s. (a) How are fungus diseases OF
grain prevented?
(b) What do you know Of the
Hessian fly? 81
(c) What is the best manner Of
combating It?
Physiology.
/. (a) Give three functions Of the
skeleton. !.
(b) OF what Is bone composed?
Name the two principal kinds OF Joints
in the skeleton.
2. (a) How many muscles are there
in the body? What part Of the body,
weight is muscle? ~
(b) What is tendon? or what
advantage is 1t to have tendon In
the body?
8. (a) Describe the lymphatic ves-,
sells. What is their function?
(b) What is an artery? What is
a vein?
4. ta) Describe the trachea and its
branches.
(b) How do the bronchial tubes
8. (a) Describe the alimentary canal.
(b) What is the function of the
gastric juice?
Geography.
1. (a) Explain the uses Of latitude
and longitude.
tb) What arc. trade winds? Mon
soons?
2. (a) Define isotherms; isthmus;
promontory.
(b) Why have Oregon and British
Columbia such a mild climate?
g.. (a) How is labor affected by
climate?
(b) What is the range Of man?
, 4. (a) Trace the Gulf Stream. How
does it effect the climate Of Great
Britain and Labrador?
(b) On what bodies Of water
would you travel from New Orleans to
Albany?
5. (a) Compare the Atlantic and
Pacific slopes of South America as to
extent and rivers.
(b) Locate Versailles, Brest,
Trieste, Shantung. and Gallipoli. State
q geographical or historical fact con-
nected with each of these places.
English.
/. (a) Write list of five adjectives
that are slang. Substitute at least two
good adjectives for each.
90 Pick out the transitive verbs
in the following sentences and explain
why they are transitive: Q The
freshmen and 'sophomores contended
for the mastery. co The soldier obeys
the captains direction.
2. (a) Write the plurals of two
nouns ending in preceded by con-
sonant; Of two nouns ending in o
preceded by vowel.
(b) Write sentence In which
you use mother-in-law and passer-by
in the plural.
8. (a) Make a list of the parts Of
speech. Give an illustration Of each.
(b) Write a sentence using an in
finitive as a noun in the nominative
case.
A. (a) Show how q clause can per-
form the function Of q noun, an ad-
jective, an adverb. Give an illustra-
ton of each use.