EXAMINATION QUESTIONS.

UNIFORM EXAMINATION FOR TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES, 1901.

FOR WHITE TEACHERS.

READING.

1. (a) What is meant by "silent reading"? (b) Oral reading? (c) What advantages are to be derived from each?

2. Name three results that may be secured from the teaching of phonics? 3. (a) What is meant by "correct articulation"? (b) How can good ar

ticulation be acquired?

4. (a) What is emphasis?

(b) What is the object of emphasis?

5. A selection to be made by the local superintendent valued at 75; each of the five questions at 5.

SPELLING.

1. Besides f, 1, and s, name the other consonants that are sometimes doubled at the end of a word.

2. Give rule for not doubling final consonants.

3. Words to be dictated by Superintendent.

2. A gentleman divided 22.05 acres of land between two sons in such a way that the younger received .75 as much as the elder. How much did each receive?

3. I sold an article for more than it cost me to A, who sold it to B for $10, which was less than it cost him. What did it cost me?

4. How many tons of hay at $.75 per cwt. must be given for 35 cords of wood at $.60 per cord ft.?

5. Change of a mile to integers of a lower denomination.

6. A town levies a tax for building a bridge, which costs $2,520; allowing

4 % for collecting, for what sum must the tax be levied?

7. I sent $12,300 to my agent in New York, with which to purchase flour at $10 per barrel, after deducting his commissions of 21%. How many barrels of flour did I receive?

8. Which is the more profitable, to buy 8's at 120%, or 5's at 75%?

9. A, B, and C took a contract for excavating a railroad cut. A furnished 60 men for 25 days; B, 50 men for 48 days; C, 75 men for 56 days. They received $20,250 for the work. What was the share of each?

10. A's money is to B's as 3 to 4; of A's money placed at interest for 3 yr. 8 mo. 15 da. at 6 %, will amount to $418.095. How much money has each?

ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

1. (a) What are abstract nouns? (b) From what parts of speech are they derived? (c) Give examples.

2. (a) Name the three methods of forming the plural of English nouns, giving example of each. (b) Give plural forms of brother-in-law, court-raitial, wagon-load, spoonful, stratum, radius, axis, phenomenon, King of England, and two forms for the plural of brother, with difference of meaning.

3. (a) Write possessive singular of son-in-law, Emperor of Germany, somebody else; and the possessive plural of boy, man, ox. (b) What may be substituted for the possessive case? (c) When must the substitute be used? 4. Decline I, thou, he, who.

5. (a) What words are used as relative pronouns? (b) In what respect does the relative differ from other pronouns? (e) When may the relative be omitted?

6. (a) Define verb, mood, tense. (b) How is the passive voice of a verb formed? Illustrate.

7. (a) What do you think about the so-called potential mood? (b) What difference between the mood of I can go and I am able to go?

8. (a) Write synopsis of the verb fight, in the indicative mood, active voice; (b) synopsis of forsake, in subjunctive mood, passive voice; (c) all the active participles of go; (d) all the passive infinitives of of weave.

9. What parts of speech are the italicised words in the following:

(a) The house was building.

(b) They were building the house.

(c) They were engaged in building the house.

10. Analyze the following: They were now approaching the pass where Wilhelm Tell slew the tyrant Gessler.

GEOGRAPHY.

1. Locate the Falkland Islands, St. Petersburg, St. Helena, Pekin, and Abyssinia.

2. Draw an outline map of Virginia, locating (1) the principal rivers, (2) mountains, and (3) ten of its cities.

3. Name (1) three counties of this State that border on North Carolina, (2) one that touches Tennessee, and (3) three lying on the Potomac.

4. State two important effects of the gulf stream.

5. Describe the trade winds, and state their causes.

6. Why are the polar circles located where they are?

7. Name five counties, not including the British Islands, subject to the British government.

8. What is the most direct waterway from London to Calcutta?

9. Why does the sun shine into the north window morning and evening in midsummer?

10. On what island is Manila?

HISTORY.

1. (a) When and why was Louisiana Territory purchased? (b) Who opposed the purchase, and why? (c) Name four States formed entirely from that Territory, and three partly from it.

2. Which of the thirteen original States did not vote for the first President of the United States, and why not?

3. What military operations took place in the colonies in the fourteen months preceding the Declaration of Independence?

4. Who were the first to find that a day is lost in sailing in a certain direction around the world, and when?

5. Name, in order, the following events of the war between the States: Battles of Fredericksburg, Seven Pines, Chickamauga, Sharpsburg, Shiloh, and Monocacy, and tell who commanded each army.

6. Give the date of the Hartford Convention, telling why it was called, and to what it led.

7. What are suggested by the following dates: (a) 1675, (b) 1775, (c) 1789, (d) 1800, (e) 1848, (f) January 1, 1863, (g) 1619.

8. (a) What nations made settlements along the Delaware river? (b) Who dispossessed them, and when?

9. What event occurred May 1, 1898, of importance to the United States, and what complications have arisen therefrom?

10. (a) When were conventions held to revise the Constitution of Virginia? (b) When will a convention be held to revise the present Constitution?

CIVIL GOVERNMENT.

1. (a) In what section of the United States does township government prevail? (b) Name some of its distinctive features.

2. Short sketch of Colonial government in Virginia.

3. Tell of the origin of public schools in the United States.

4. (a) What is taxation? (b) How does the Federal government raise money to defray its expenses? (c) How does a State?

5. (a) Of what houses does the Congress of the United States consist? (b) How are the members of each house elected, and for what term?

6. (a) Of what houses is the General Assembly of Virginia composed? (b) How are the members of each house elected, and for what term?

7. What three State officers will be elected by the people of Virginia next November, and for what term will each serve?

8. Give brief outline of the method of electing a President of the United States.

9. How is the Superintendent of Public Instruction elected in Virginia, and for what term?

10. (a) How are the judges of Virginia courts elected? (b) What do you think of this method?

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING.

1. What spirit should inspire every teacher?

2. Why should teachers continue to pursue a professional course of study? 3. With what branches should a public school teacher in this State be familiar?

4. Brief outline of the best method of teaching English in primary and grammar grades.

5. Mention some advantages of teaching geography and history from books that have no questions in them.

6. Mention three subjects in arithmetic that should be omitted in shortterm district schools.

7. Mention some relations that a teacher should seek to establish between himself and the parents of pupils.

8. Give two reasons why we should have an "arbor day" for our schools. 9. Name some methods for securing good discipline.

10. Name all the books on teaching that you have read.

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

1. Give illustrations of the several kinds of joints.

2. Give some illustrations of the use of involuntary muscles.

3. Mention the secretions appearing on the skin, and give their uses.

4. Mention the functions of the blood.

5. Give a classification of foods, and mention examples under each class. 6. Give a summary of absorption.

7. Describe the phenomena of respiration.

8. Mention the duties of the spinal cord.

9. How does alcohol encourage heat loss in the body?

10. State the functions of the several parts of the eye.

FOR COLORED TEACHERS.

READING.

1. How should a parenthetic clause be read?

2. What objects are to be aimed at in the study and teaching of reading? 3. What is accent?

4. What are some of the essential qualities of good reading?

5. What are pauses?

6. A selection to be made by the local superintendent valued at 75; each of the five questions at 5. The whole, questions and selections, at 100.

SPELLING.

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1. Give rule for final y when preceded by a vowel. Illustrate by example. 2. Add ness to weighty and give rule.

3. Words to be dictated by superintendent.

ARITHMETIC.

1. Divide the sum of .075 and .0075 by the difference of 7.5 and .75.

2. A merchant sold a piece of cloth for $24 and thereby lost of his purchase money. What part of his purchase money would he have gained had he sold it for $34?

3. A mast stands in the ground, in the water, and 33 ft. above the water. What is its length?

4. How much beef, at 7d. a pound, ought I to receive for 27 lb 12 oz. of butter at 1s. 9d. per pound?

5. What per cent. is gained by buying oil at 80 cents a gallon, and selling it at 12 cents a pint?

6. What is the rate of income upon money invested in 6 per cent. bonds, purchased at a discount of 10 per cent.?

7. If it require $900 to support a family of 12 persons 41 weeks and 1 day, how much at the same rate will be required to support a family of 24 persons 22 weeks and 6 days?

8. If I rent a house, which cost $9,000, for $900 a year, and lay out $150 in repairs, what % interest do I receive?

9. If a garden of a certain length and 4 rd. 8 ft. 3 in. wide contain of an acre, how much would it contain if it were 9 rods wide?

10. What is the distance around a rectangular field, whose length is twice its breadth, if one end measures 35 rd. 5 yd. 2 ft. 6 in.?

(NOTE.-Superintendents may, if they think proper, omit the last two examples, or substitute others for them.)

ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

1. (a) What is a collective noun? (b) Rule for number of a verb whose subject is a singular collective noun.

2. Write plural form of ox, chiid, tooth, sister-in-law, spoonful, thesis, datum, seraph, car-load, attorney-general.

3. (a) Name six classes of pronouns.

(b) Classify and decline I, he, who.

4. (a) Define verb, mood, tense. (b) Name all the moods. (c) What are the principal parts of the verb?

5. (a) Write synopsis of lead in the active indicative; (b) subjunctive passive of stay; (c) the active participles of go; (d) the passive infinitives of sting.

6. What is the adverbial object? Illustrate by example.

7. Write a sentence containing both a direct and an indirect object.

8. Write a complex sentence containing an adjective clause.

9. Name the parts of speech of the italicized words in the following: (a) They saw a boy running across the field.

(b) A running stream they dare not cross.

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