Exam Time

We're just now finishing up our final term of the school year, so we'll be doing exams next week. I've come up with exam questions based on Charlotte Mason's exams, except that I'm only assigning ten questions per student. It's summer and we're all ready for a break, I didn't want to tack on a grueling week of exams to a vacation that's only starting in the middle of July. Summer's going to be short enough as it is.

Kahoa - Year 3.5

Bible
1. Tell about Gideon and his three hundred. (Judges)
2. How is Jesus better than the angels? (Hebrews)

3. Writing/Dictation (poem by Christina Rosetti)
Look over first, then write:
The city mouse lives in a house;--
The garden mouse lives in a bower,
He's friendly with the frogs and toads,
And sees the pretty plants in flower.

History (A Child's History of the World)
4. Tell about "Bibles made of stone and glass."
5. What do you know about Napoleon?

Literature
6. How did Myles help his father? (Men of Iron by Howard Pyle)
7. What happened to Gobo? (Bambi by Felix Salton)

Geography (Elementary Geography by Charlotte Mason)
8. What do you know about the surface of the earth? Name some continents.

Science (All About Famous Inventors and Their Inventions by Fletcher Pratt)
9. Tell about the invention of the cotton gin and who invented it, OR the airplane.

Math
10. 232 x 34
6x + 4 = 40
Write three ways of dividing 28 by 4. How much is that?

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Keola - Year 6

Bible
1. Tell about Gideon and his three hundred. (Judges)
2. How is Jesus better than the angels? (Hebrews)

3. Writing/Dictation
So Gandalf went on with the tale until he came to the fight in the dark the discovery of the lower gate, and their horror that Mr. Baggins had been mislaid. (The Hobbit)

History
4. How/why did Augustus get his title, and what was his name before? (Augustus Caesar's World by G. Foster)
5. Describe a Roman triumphal procession. OR tell what you know of Cleopatra.
6. Tell what you admire about Churchill OR Galileo's contributions to science/math. (Never Give in OR Galileo and the Magic Numbers)

Geography (A Child's Geography of the World by Hillyer)
7. Tell about "the land of the new moon" OR the place where there are "man made mountains."

Natural History/Science (The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson)
8. What do you know about waves or currents?

Citizenship (Plutarch's Lives)
9. What good did Romulus do for Rome?

Picture Study
10. Describe Waterhouse's painting "The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius"

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Kekoa - Year 10

Bible
1. Tell about some of Israel's judges (Judges)
2. Compare Jesus with the angels. (Hebrews)

History (Churchill The Great Democracies)
3. Tell about American Reconstruction after the Civil War.
4. What do you know of the rise of Germany OR the struggle for home rule in Ireland?
5. Why was Victoria so beloved by her people? (Queen Victoria by Sarah Tytler) OR Describe Frederick Douglass's "escape from slavery." (Essays)

Government
6. What is the role of government in a free state? (On Liberty by John Stuart Mill)

Geography
7. Describe the terrain of Scotland (In Search of Scotland by H.V. Morton)

Citizenship (Plutarch's Lives or Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin)
8. Contrast the leadership of Theseus and Romulus. OR explain "all literature and all education are only useful so far as they tend to confirm this calm, beneficent, and THEREFORE kingly, power--first, over ourselves, and, through ourselves, over
all around us."

Science
9. Tell about "winter animals" (Walden by Henry David Thoreau) OR How does physics relate to biology, astronomy, geology, or psychology? (Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman)

Literature (Silas Marner by George Eliot)
10. Describe the character of your favorite person in Silas Marner OR compare the characters of brothers Godfrey and Dunstan.