Teacher Examination

Minden, Nebraska

February 20, 1892

J.S. Canaday, County Superintendent

 

Drawing

1. Write the dictations for a regular pentagon.

2. Make a picture of a wooden bucket.

3. Make a border one and one half inches long, interlacing squares and circles.

 

Reading

1. How should the teaching of primary and advanced classes differ?

2. Point out three common defects in reading and their remedies.

3. Define pitch, articulation and emphasis.

4. Locate, name and describe the organs that produce and modify the voice.

5. How do you have your classes recite reading?

6. Read a paragraph of prose and a stanza of poetry.

 

History

1. On what did the English base their claim to territory in America? On what did the French?

2. Tell the story of the charter oaks.

3. Give the history of the emancipation proclamation.

4. What was the origin of the Mason and Dixon’s line? Locate it.

5. What were the causes that led to the war of the revolution?

6. When did the government go into operation under the present constitution? Name three of the principle amendments.

7. Mention the rebellions that have occurred in the United States and state their causes.

8. Curing what wars were the following battles fought? Bennington, Chickamunga, Tippecanoe and Monmouth.

9. To which political party did President Jackson belong? Taylor, Pierce, Johnson, and W.H. Harrison?

10. What Presidents of the U.S. have died in office? What three ex-presidents died on the 4th of July?

 

Geography

1. Define and give an example of a cape; of a peninsula.

2.Which pursuits give titles to cities? Name two locations where cities would be likely to grow?

3. Name five great shipping points of the United States.

4. Describe the two longest rivers in America.

5. Name five countries in South America which border on the Atlantic Ocean.

6. Where is the Black Sea, North Sea, Sea of Azov?

7. Which river of France flows into the English Channel? What two into the Bay of Biscayne?

8. Name two rivers of Africa which flow into the Atlantic Ocean? Where is the Gulf of Bengal? What does the Strait of Babel Mandeb connect?

9. Name the two most extended mountain systems of Africa. What can you say of their height?

10. Name five tributaries of the Mississippi River.

 

Grammar

1. What is gender? Give the opposite gender of the following words: widow, author, landlord, master.

2. What is the rule for the correct us of each other and one another?

3. Write the principal parts of the verbs ride, be, go, become, flee.

4. Write a sentence containing an adverbial phrase and an objective clause.

5. Define subject, predicate, voice, comparison, case.

6. How is the possessive of complex terms formed? Illustrate. Write the plural of the following: cherry, money, yoke, ox.

7. Correct and give reason: “No less than five books were found.” “These sort of grapes are very sweet.”

8. Analyze: After his failure in business he turned pedlor.

9. Parse the words emphasized: WHATEVER hath been SHALL REMAIN, nor BE ERASED NOR written over again.

10. Give two rules for the use of the period.

 

Arithmetic

1. What number added to 2/3 of ¾ of 9 ½ will make 5-6 of 6-7 of 21?

2. Divide 1.728 by 1.2 and give reason for position of decimal.

3. What will a pile of wood cost at $4.25 per cord, which is 86 ft. long, 16 ft. wide and 12 ft. high?

4. If goods are bought at ¼ of their value and sold for 10 cents more than their value, what is the gain per cent?

5. If 1/8 of a bushel of oats feeds 4 horses 1/3 of a day, how many horses will 9 bushels feed 3-5 days?

6. A note for $1,2oo for one year at 9 percent interest, is discounted, true discount, at the end of the 8th month: what is then the present worth?

7. Find the L.C.N.[?] and the G.C.D. of 6, 8, 20 and 36.8.

8. Add 1/5 of 2 1/7  to .06 + 3 1/8

               5 + 3/8           3 1/5 –2½

9. What is ¾ percent of 149 books?

10. A can do a piece of work in 10 days; A and B can do the same work together in 7 days, in how many days can B, working alone, do the work?

 

Mental Arithmetic

1. If 6 yards of cloth cost $18, what will 3 yards cost?

2. Multiply 2/3 by ¾.

3. Divide 2 2/3 by ¾.

4. Change ¾ to a decimal.

5. Reduce 5 bushels, 3 pecks, 2 quarts and 1 pint to pints.

6. Reduce 585 pints to bushels.

 

Orthography

1. What are the advantages of the “oral method” in teaching pupils to spell?

2. How should a pupil prepare his spelling lesson?

3. What is orthography? What is a word?

4. Spell two other words having the same pronunciation as each of the following: cent, sight, right, raise, sheer.

5. How are abbreviations indicated?

 

Penmanship

1. What is the best pen for ordinary use in school?

2. What is the proper position of the body, arm, and hand in writing?

3. Into how many classes are the small letters divided, and what are they?

4. How do you teach writing?

5. How should s, t, and l compare in height?

Book-Keeping

1. What is book-keeping?

2. For what purpose are books kept?

3. Define single entry and double entry.

4. What is the use of the historical day-book?

5. Give three rules for journalizing. Write a promissory note that is negotiable bearing 7 per cent interest.

6. On commencing business this day I have the following assets: Cash on hand $2,ooo; Merchandise $2,300; I hold Sam King’s note for $365; I owe John Jones on account $3000; on notes $500. Rule day book, journal, and ledger, and enter the above in a book and journal and post to ledger.

 

Civil Government

1. What is the title of the officer who takes proof of wills and attends to settlement of estates of deceased persons?

2. How may a bill which has been vetoed by the President become a law?

3. Who is the chief executive officer of the U.S.; of the state, the county, a city, a village.

4. How long must an alien reside in this country before he can become a citizen?

5. Name four state officers and mention one duty of each.

6. Who are the U.S. senators and cofrom Nebraska?

7. Where must all bills for raising revenue originate? Why?

8. How may a person unjustly imprisoned obtain a release?

9. What is the time for holding the annual school district meeting? What is required to be done at such meetings?

10. State what you know of the duties of the school district board as relates to the teacher?

 

Physiology and Hygiene

1. Name the three kingdoms of nature.

2. Define physiology, anatomy, hygiene.

3. Describe the four uses of the skeleton.

5. Name the bones of the skull.

6. Name the digestive organs.

7. Name and describe the salivary glands.

8. Name the organs of the circulatory system.

9. What becomes of the blood in the capillaries?

10. What is the nervous system?

 

Theory and Practice

1. What are some of the titles of works which treat this subject?

2. In what does the art of teaching consist?

3. What is the part of the teacher in the work of education?

4. Why should the teacher be a student?

5. Name some of the school vices. Name some of the school virtues.

 

Narcotics

1. How is alcohol found?

2. Give effects of alcohol on the heart.

3. Give effects of alcohol on the lungs.

4. In what way does alcohol interfere with the digestion?

5. Give five objections to using liquor.