PHYSIOLOGY.

TIME FORTY-FIVE MINUTES.

1. Describe the manner in which the bones are joined together.

2. Name and describe the different kinds of joints; give an example of each.

3. Give a full description of the vertebral column.

4. Explain the manner in which the character of the blood is changed in the lungs.

5. What habits impair the power of the lungs?

6. State what fluids or juices are secreted by the system for the digestion of the food, and give the particular use of each.

7.

Describe the liver and state its function.

8. Locate the diaphragm, describe it and state its function.

HISTORY.

TIME, FORTY-FIVE MINUTES.

1. Who is Vice-President of the United States? Who is speaker of the House? Who is Chief Justice? Give the names of the President's Cabinet. 2. What was the Credit Mobilier? In what way did it affect American politics?

3. Which of the thirteen original colonies was largely settled by released prisoners for debt? Who was the author of that mode of settlement?

4. Where was Washington first inaugurated, and who administered the oath of office? Why was not the oath administered by the Chief Justice of the United States?

5. Name five important events in Andrew Jackson's administration.

6. With what foreign power did our country form the first treaty? Who was the American diplomatist?

7. Who was Owen Lovejoy? Narrate the circumstances of his death. 8. What led to the court-martial of General Fitz John Porter? What was the result of the trial?

9. In whose administration was the first Pacific railroad completed? 10. Explain the government land system in support of the public schools in many States of the Union.

ALGEBRA.

TIME, ONE HOUR AND THIRTY MINUTES.

1. A father's age is to that of his son, as the age of the latter is to that of the grandson. The eldest is 81 years of age, and the youngest is 16 years of age. What is the age of the son?

2. Divide the number 100 into four such parts that the first dimished by 5, the second increased by 5, and the third divided by 2, shall each equal the fourth.

3. Find by division the G. C. D. of 15a4+10a3b+4a2b2+b a b3 3b1 and 6a3+ 19a2b+8a b2 — 5b3.

4. Separate the number A into two parts such that one part shall be M greater than the other. Deduce from the formula obtained an arithmetical rule for solution of such examples.

5. A person bought a quantity of cloth for $6.75. After using four yards, he sold one-fourth of what remained at prime cost for $1.00. How many yards did he buy?

6. Take factors out from under the radical sign in the following: √75, 31-128a 7b, 41/-1250 and put under the radical sign the factors outside in the following: 3-9, 2x241/5x7, 1/4 n+2.

7. What is the price of oranges when eight more in a dollar's worth would lower the price five cents per dozen?

8. Solve:

(x+y) (xy) :: 4:1

(x+y) (x-y) =64.

9. Four numbers are in geometrical progression, the smallest is seven, what is the largest if the sum of the four be 286?

10. Form an equation in quadratics whose root shall be eight and -b.

BOTANY.

TIME, FORTY-FIVE MINUTES.

1. Name the different ways in which leaves may be classified.

2. Define symmetrical flower, complete flower, essential organs, protecting organs.

3. Describe the manner in which plants obtain nutriment.

4. How are plants propagated or multiplied in numbers?

5. Describe the ovary, the ovule, the pistil.

6. Define classification. Tell how plants are classified.

7. What is a simple fruit? How are simple fruits classified?

9. Give a full description of an apple or a bean; tell the kind of fruit, and classify the plant which produces it.

NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

TIME, ONE HOUR.

1. What is molecular force? Give examples of the different kinds. 2. Which travels the faster, sound at high pitch or sound at low pitch? 3. Show that perpetual motion is impossible.

4. The temperature of water at 60 degrees (Farh.) is reduced to 32 degrees; did it expand or contract? Explain.

5. Explain why the barometer falls when the thermometer rises, and vice

versa.

6. Will a ship carry a heavier cargo in salt water or in fresh water? Why.

7. What is the solar spectrum? Upon what does the color of light depend?

8. Why does a receding object appear to become smaller?

9. What is the velocity of light, and how was it first ascertained?

10. Show the impenetrability of air, using the diving bell as an illustration.

DRAWING.

TIME, FORTY-FIVE MINUTES.

1. Develop a straight line and draw four pictures or designs upon it.

2. Develop curves, single and double, and draw four designs containing them and straight lines.

3. Draw five designs of fruit or vegetable.

4. Draw a hat, a knife, a basket, a book.

5. Develop the ellipse and draw three designs upon it.

6. Draw a square and fix diagonals; draw the square in perspective and show how to find the center.

7. Draw a figure and locate horizon line, vanishing point, point of sight, line of view, point of view, point of distance, and base line.

8. Draw three cubes in perspective below the horizon line, one directly on the line of view, one to the right and one to the left.

9. Locate three windows on the perspective side of a building--as a schoolhouse.

10. What parts of a picture are shaded?

CIVIL GOVERNMENT.

TIME, ONE HOUR.

1. In case of a failure in the electoral college to choose a President and Vice-President, state fully by what bodies and by what vote each is chosen. 2. How may a bill become a law without the signature of the President. 3. Name five specified powers of Congress, and five specified powers prohibited to the States.

4. What is "the writ of habeas corpus," and when may its privileges be suspended?

5. State the two methods of proposing amendments to the Constitutution of the United States.

6. State the difference between original and appellate jurisdiction.

7. Name the three powers of government, in what officers each is vested, and by whom and for what periods such officers are chosen.

8. Define an ex post facto law.

9.

Distinction between States and Territories.

10. Nature of the Missouri Compromise and occasion of its repeal.

CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF IOWA.

TIME, FORTY-FIVE MINUTES.

1. What is the title of the presiding officer of the Senate? How is he chosen?

2. What is the title of the presiding officer of the House? How is he chosen?

3. What restriction does the Constitution make regarding duelling?

4. Give the names of the State officers, and the office that each fills.

5. Can private property be taken for public use without compensation? Explain.

6. What record must the journal of each House show on the final passage of a bill?

7. When does a law passed by the General Assembly take effect?

8. Does the State give pecuniary aid to county Agricultural Societies? Explain.

9. In what respect do the functions of the District Courts differ from those of the Circuit Courts?

10. How can the Constitution be amended? Give the process.

FOR CERTIFICATES.

DIDACTICS-THEORY OF EDUCATION.

TIME, ONE HOUR AND THIRTY MINUTES.

1. Describe the conditions and qualities of a person educated up to your ideal standard.

2. Enumerate the forces or agencies that mould and educate the human being.

3. Which division of education belongs particularly to the schools? Give your reasons.

4. Write a few lines concisely explaining and defining teaching.

5. What is knowledge? Give an extended answer.

6. In what way does memory differ from knowing? In what divisions of knowledge does simple memory constitute complete knowing?

7. What conditions in the intellect and feelings of a pupil favoring his efforts to acquire knowledge should you induce and maintain during study and recitation?

8. What is the meaning and application of the term "method" as used by writers on Didactics?

9. Discuss the two distinctive methods of intellectual movement by which the learner acquires knowledge.

10. What are the conditions upon which good government for any school can be secured?

FOR CERTIFICATES.

DIDACTICS-PRACTICE.

TIME, ONE HOUR.

1. Describe what your pupils should be able to do in Reading on the completion of the Second Reader? Of the Third Reader? Of the Fourth Reader? Of the Fifth Reader?

2. What results should be reached in number lessons at the end of the first year?

3. Explain your treatment of fractions when teaching pupils just entering upon this subject.

4. Discuss the principle called self-activity in pupils. When is it violated and when maintained?

5. What principles underlie the art of questioning?

6. Indicate the development by inductive teaching of some rule in arithmetic, as that of "pointing off" in multiplication of decimals.

7. What faculties does a well devised system of Object Lessons tend to development and discipline?

8. Describe the features of a well-conducted recitation in Geography, Grammar grade.

9. What are the names of the usual grades in a city school system? Indicate the work in Arithmetic to be done in each grade.

10. What elements in the character and policy of the teacher will produce good government?