Exams Wednesday

L - Year 3.5

Where did the religion of Islam come from? - When Mohammed was a little boy, his parents died and so he went to live with his uncle, and his uncle was a caravan driver and what that meant was that Mohammed went with the caravans and he helped him with the supplies and I guess Mohammed stayed with him and everything. When Mohammed grew up he had a vision one night and in the vision the angel Gabriel told him to start preaching a religion and he woke up and then he went out and started preaching a new religion that had never been taught before and it ended up being called Islamic. One of the things Islamic people did everyday around the middle of the day a bell was rung from basically the church, and everybody kneeled down and started praying. No matter what what you were doing whether it was a big thing or just a minor thing, you had to stop whatever you were doing and kneel down and pray. And some people even got mats to put under their knees.

Tell your favorite part of Bambi. - That's easy. One day Bambi and his mother were walking in the meadow and Bambi played tag with his mother like the first time but all of a sudden he noticed that his mother was standing very still and so he went uip to her to see what she was doing and he saw two long ears sticking up from the grasss stems and his mother told told him to come over to where she was and she introduced him to their friend the hare, and Bambi was a little bit critical of the hare's long whiskers and they talked for awhile and the hare studied Bambi and finally he had to go home, and I guess Bambi's mother started to graze and Bambi went off a little ways to see what he could do and he noticed a ways off on the other side of the meadow that the grass was moving and everything, and he saw two backs with white spots on them and he bounded back like he wanted to run away, and his mother looked up to see what he was doing and she asked him, and he told her to look where he had seen the backs. So she looked over and she noticed that it was her sister and so she told Bambi to follow her, so he did and everything. They went and said hello and what Bambi had seen was actually Gobo and Faline, his aunt Ina's children. They started to play and then they romped in the grass and they stopped to take a breather and then they started talking, already good friends. Bambi asked Gobo if he knew what danger was. And Gobo answered and said that danger was something very bad and they all sort of stood there sort of scared and evertything, trying to figure out what danger was. But finally Faline bounded away saying, "I know what danger is, it's what you run away from!" and then they started to play again and totally forgot about the absorbing question. Finally they stopped again and looked over at their mothers but they were still grazing and then they started to talk again and Bambi told them how he had talked to the grasshopper and the butterfly and Friend Hare. And Faline asked if he had ever talked to the goldbug and Bambi said no. Faline said pertly that she had talked to him often and Gobo said that the hedge hog had struck him in the nose, but he only mentioned it in passing. Then the mothers looked up and said that it was time to go but they started to plead asking for more time and Aunt Ina told his mother about how she told her that they wouldn't want to separate. Suddenly they heard something that took their minds off everything else. It was like a crashing and everything in the bushes and they looked up and saw two stags, and the two stags ran out and ran right back into the thicket and then they came bursting out again and then they stopped about twenty feet away from each other and then they turned around and walked back to the thicket in opposite directions. And then Faline asked who they were and so did Gobo, and Aunt Ina said that they were their fathers. Then they said goodbye to each other and separated. After that Bambi and his mother started to walk home and on the way Bambi asked his mother why their fathers hadn't spoken to them and his mother said that they don't speak to them anymore, only when they wanted to. And he asked her why didn't they stay with them and she said they didn't stay with them anymore, only when they wanted to.

What is a diving bell? - Just like a square bell that sits on the surface of the water and a little bencj on the bottom of it where you can sit and there wasn't really a floor. (He drew a diagram.) You could dive and go down and look for stuff instead of using a boat you could use it.

Add 343 + 237 + 522 - 1102

Father to choose a poem, and a memory verse.

J - Year 6


Describe the city of ancient Rome OR Athens OR Sparta - Sparta was a very plain city and the people in it were rather plain, too They didn't go for finery, they just went for practical things. In the city they had schools where the boys went and schools where the girls went. The girls were taught to basically keep a house, and the boys were taught to go to war. They were trained as soldiers and prepared for battle.

Briefly explain the theory of relativity OR give an account of Archimides's contribution to science. - Archimides pretty much invented how to use math the right way He discovered that there was no end to numbers, that you can just keep going. He also invented several other things that help do things such as he invented a machine that could draw water from a stream just by turning a handle. He used his science not so much to do things for himself, but to help other scientists and to improve the science that they had.

How many square feet of wall are in a room 12x13 feet, 8 feet high? 1248
Minus a door 3x7 feet? 1227

Describe "The Milkmaid" by Vermeer - She's standing in a rather plain room with a table underneath a window. She has a basket of bread, a pitcher of milk and it looks like some peices of cloth on the table as well. There is a foot warmer on the floor and on the baseboard there are little paintings.

T - Year 10

Explain how Abraham's children with Hagar and Sarah illustrate the two agreements between God and man. (Galatians) - Ishmael is illustrative of the first agreement, the Law. Abraham tried to fulfill the requirements by his own works, and his child Ishmael by Hagar was the result. Isaac is illustrative of the second agreement: promised and accomplished by God and received by man through faith.

Describe one of the generals of the Civil War. - Robert E. Lee was described by Churchill as the military genius of the Civil War. He was also a wise and honorable man. He had wished that the war would not have to happen, but when his state, Virginia, joined the Confederacy he went with her (despite being offered command of the Union army). During the first years of the war he won many battles, even though he was usually outnumbered. When the Confederacy was at last overpowered and he was asked to surrender, one of his subordinates suggested that they shouldn't give up, but go into hiding and fight a guerrilla war against the Union; but General Lee said no, because this would help neither the Confederacy nor the Union. (And he did sign General Grant's terms of surrender, at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865.)

Describe the scene where Dr. Frankenstein stops working on a second monster. - Frankenstein had been working on the creature for some time. But one day he decided he could not go on with it. He had seen the evil that one such creature could cause, and he could not create a second. So he went to destroy what he had done so far—-and was met by his first monster. The monster argued and pleaded with him to finish his work, but Frankenstein was unmoved. The monster left in a rage, telling Frankenstein that he would be with him on his wedding night. Frankenstein then took all the pieces from his work on a second creature, went out to sea in a small boat, and sunk them.

Describe Vermeer's "The Milkmaid" - A lady stands pouring milk from a pitcher into a vessel on a table. She wears a blue skirt, yellow blouse, and white head-covering. The room she is in has plain walls but there is a row of decorated tiles around the base. Light comes in from a window towards the upper left of the painting. There are loaves on the table; baskets hang behind the lady on the side wall; and there is a small wooden box (a foot-warmer, if I remember correctly) on the floor.