7. (a) To what race do people of China belong? (b) What form of government now prevails there?

8. Write the following products in a column. Opposite each, state a country of Asia that produces it: Tea, ivory, coffee, spices, silk. 9. (a) What oceans on the cost of Asia? (b) Name three nearby islands. (c) Estimate the latitude of Hong Kong.

10. (a) Where is India? (b) With what countries does India carry on trade? (c) How is India governed? (d) What kind of climate has it? (e) What waters wash its shores?

11.

Where do most of rivers of Asia rise? Name two valuable to commerce. Into what waters do they empty?

12. (a) By what route does tea pass from China to Russia? (b) From China to Europe? (c) From China to New York?

13. Of what does the empire of Japan consist? Name the largest island? What seas separate it from the mainland?

14. (a) Describe the Ganges River. (b) Of what race are the natives of India? What religion? Tell something of this religion. 15.

Describe the surface of Africa.

16. In sailing from New York eastward to Hong Kong by the most direct route, what waters would you pass through?

17. What is the loftiest mountain range on the globe? Where is it?

18. (a) Name three peninsulas in the south part of Asia. (b) Name three rivers that empty into the Arctic Ocean. (c) What two mountain ranges separate Asia from Europe?

19. Name four religions of the people of Asia.

20. Locate the following cities; tell why each is important: Jerusalem, Madras, Calcutta, Pekin, Tokio.

21. Tell the most important product of each of the following: Siberia, Persia, India, China, Japan.

22. For what are the following cities noted: Yokohama, Bombay, Bokhara, Teheran, Mecca, Hong Kong?

23. (a) Where is Siberia? (b) Of what country is it a part? (c) In what direction do its rivers flow? Why? Name three.

24. (a) What and where is Kamchatka? (b) What sea east of it? What sea west of it?

25. (a) What empire south of Siberia? (b) Name two of its rivers? (c) What and where are the steppes?

26. Through what waters would you sail in traveling from Calcutta to Gibraltar?

27. How is commerce carried on in the interior of Asia? Tell one of the routes.

1. "Pitt was not a man to be disheartened by a single failure, or to be put down by the most lively repartee." Analyze and parse italicised words.

2. Fill in the blanks with suitable pronouns and give reasons for the choice in each case: (a) To ........ did you speak? (b) It was spoke so clearly.

3. What is a noun? Into how many classes are nouns divided? Illustrate each in a sentence.

4. Write a sentence using an infinitive as a noun, and one using an infinitive as an adverb.

5. The child who was sick went home. Parse who.

6. The tallest tree on the mountain was a pine tree. Parse tallest.

7. Give the possessive plural of: Man, mouse, goose, dog, child. 8. "She was to pack up all the things, that the child might have everything necessary to take with her." Underline the dependent

clause.

9. Name three kinds of pronouns and illustrate each in a

sentence.

10. Write ten lines of poetry from memory.

11. Name the verbals in the following sentences and tell to which class each belongs: (a) Throwing aside his coat, he marched boldly up to the man. (b) What would life be without fighting! (c) Never try to be popular, but only to do your duty.

12. Which words are conjunctions in the following sentences? To which class does each belong? Give reason for your answer: (a) Mary may have the book and I will take the pencil. (b) I will be home early unless something happens. (c) The flowers seem more beautiful when the sun shines. (d) Because you work slowly, you do not accomplish much.

SCIENCE-SEVENTH YEAR

FORCE PUMP. EXPERIMENT 1.

Names of parts: A and B-Argand lamp chimneys. C-Dowel rod. D-one hole rubber stopper. E-two holed rubber stopper. One hole fitted with leather valve. F-one holed rubber stopper fitted with valve. G and G'-two short glass tubes. H-long glass tube. J-long piece of rubber tubing. K-glass tubing with narrow opening delivery, tube. L-tumbler of water.

Directions: Arrange apparatus as in diagram. Raise piston slowly. What is the action of the suction valve (M)? Lower the piston and note the action of the valves. Slowly raise and lower the piston rod, at the same time observing the behavior of the water and the action of the valves. Repeat several times until a steady stream is produced from the nozzle of the delivery tube.

Illustrations of lifting and force pumps :

Raising water from wells and cisterns; filling reservoirs and tanks; steam fire engines.

EXPERIMENT 2.

Explain action of air pump by diagrams, and by comparison with lift pump. Place on air pump plate an open top receiver covered with sheet rubber or hand. Exhaust air. Note and explain results.

TEST QUESTIONS-8A

ORAL ARITHMETIC.

INTEGERS.

(1) 18+12+11+ 87-98.

(2) 67 X 39 (18).

(3) 18 124+9 (24). Multiplication and division signs. refer only to the numbers on each side of the signs.

=

64.)

(4) Give multiples of 8 (16, 24, 32, etc). (5) Raise 8 to the second power. (8 X 8 (6) Raise 8 to the third power (8 X 8 X 8 512). A multiple is a number which will exactly contain another number; 12 is a multiple of 2, of 3, of 4, and of 6. A power of a number is the product obtained by using the number as a factor; as 9 is the square or second power of 3, and 27 is the cube or third power of 3, for 3 X 39, and 3 X 3 X 327.

(7) Raise 6 to the third power.

(8) Raise 10 to the third power.

(9) Give the least multiple common to 3, 5, 6.

(10) Give the least multiple common to 4, 8, 9.

(11) Multiply 76 by 25 (4 X 7,600).
(12) Multiply 48 by 121⁄2 (% X 4,800).
(13) Multiply 324 by 75 (34 X 32,400).
(14)

Multiply 25 by 99 (2,500 - 25).

(15) Find the cost of 375 pineapples at $10 per C. (3.75 X 10 = $37.50).

(16) If 5 yards cost $12, what will 15 yards cost? (3 X $12). FRACTIONS.-TYPES.

(Examples 17 and 18, first type; 19 and 20, second type; 21 and 22, third type; 23 and 24, fourth type.)

(17) Find 3% of 105.

(18) Find 3 of 34 of 2.

(19) 18 is what part of 45?

(20) 24 is what part of 60?

(21) 63 is 7% of what number?

(22) 81 is 9/10 of what number?

(23) 54 is more than what number?

(24) 72 is %

(25) 35 is 3%

more than what number?

less than what number?

(26) 65 is % less than what number?

(27) A man earned $2,000 and spent 34 of it. How much did he spend?

(28) A lady saved $200 out of her salary of $1,600 a year. What % did she save?

(29) John had 50 marbles and that was 62% of the number Fred had. How many had Fred?

(30) Amy had 60 cents and that is % more than Bessie had. How much had Bessie?

(31) If a number is decreased by 1/3 of itself, the result will be 24.

(41) The product of two fractions is 2. If one of the fractions

is 23, what is the other? (3 X = 2; X = 1⁄2 3 or 34.)

(42) The quotient of two fractions is 12. If the divisor is 34, what is the other? (The quotient and the divisor are factors of the dividend: 34 X 11⁄2 1%. Proof: 1% 34 = 12.)

(43) A can do a piece of work in two days. It takes B 3 days to do the same piece of work. How long would it take them if they

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