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Can You Get 8/8 On This Final Exam Eighth Graders Took In 1895?

Would you be smarter back then?

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Ryan Schocket
Ryan Schocket
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  1. Which is not one of the principal parts of a verb?
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    Present tense
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    Past tense
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    Past participle<br>
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    Future participle
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    The four principle parts of a verb are present, the past tense, the past participle, and the present participle.

  2. In what year did the Civil War end?
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    1860
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    1861
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    1863
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    1865
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    The Civil War ended in 1865.

  3. Who invented the cotton gin?
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    Alexander Graham Bell
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    Elias Howe
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    Robert Fulton
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    Eli Whitney
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    Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, which helped shape the Industrial Revolution.

  4. The first commercially successful steamboat was invented by:
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    Robert Fulton
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    Nikola Tesla
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    James Watt
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    Rudolf Diesel
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    Robert Fulton is the inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat!

  5. A group of lines separated from others in a poem is a:
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    Paragraph
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    Rhyme
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    Stanza
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    Couplet
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    That's a stanza!

  6. ___ is referred the study of words' origins.
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    Alphabetography
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    Phonetics
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    Orthography
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    Etymology
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    Etymology!

  7. Which of these is not a prefix?
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    "Pre"
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    "Post"
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    "Dis"
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    "Ation"
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    "Ation" is a suffix, not a prefix!

  8. What does "raze" mean?
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    To finish
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    To hate
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    To hurt
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    To destroy
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    It means to "completely destroy."

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