Exam Questions for Year 10/11 Lite Term 3
Bible
1. "God has pleasure in obedience because disobedience shows a misplacement of fear." Explain this.
2. "Arise, and go down to the potter's house . . ." What did God tell Jeremiah there?
3. Summarize either Habakkuk's prayer, or the fall of Jerusalem.
4. Give some account of the coming of the Lord, and how we should live until then.
5. "The greatest of these is charity (love)." What does Paul say about charity/love?
Writing/Penmanship
Write 8-10 lines of poetry from memory.
Dictation
(Assigned passage is in the Exam Key.)
Composition/Literature
1. Describe Atticus Finch.
2. "So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life." Explain this.
3. Summarize a short story or poem you enjoyed this term.
English Grammar
1. Identify whether the italicized word is a direct object, or indirect object.
After the game, Michael bought his brothers some pizza and ice cream.
Now fed and bathed, Angela read a book to her young charges before putting them to bed.
2. Choose "its" or "their." Each of the books had __ own handmade bookmark.
3. Use 'good' and 'well' correctly in sentences.
4. Parse the sentence, identifying: 1) the part of speech for each word; 2) for nouns and pronouns, the number (singular, plural) and case (nominative, objective/accusative, dative, possessive/genitive, vocative); 3) for verbs, the tense (past, present, future), voice (active, passive), and--if applicable--person (first, second, third). (Teacher: you may ask the student to provide more or less information, as appropriate.)
Nancy was capable of keeping her word to herself under very trying conditions.
World History
1. Discuss Stalin, Lenin and the rise of communism.
2. Tell about the Nuremberg Trials.
3. Tell about the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King.
4. Tell about John F. Kennedy.
5. What do you know about Vietnam?
6. Explain the Cold War.
Geography
1. What is it like to ride a dromedary? Or, describe the route between Suez to Gaza.
2. Describe the beautiful town of Nablus.
3. Describe Damascus.
Natural History and General Science
1. Give an account of Ros, Grassi, or Walter Reed.
2. What do you know about the universal law of gravitation? Or, "Electrons behave just like light." Explain.
3. Choose a question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.
4. Choose a question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.
Citizenship/Government (Plutarch)
1. Use the Year 7-10 Questions for this term's Plutarch from this page.
2. How does entertainment change the nature of news, elections, and education? Or, Discuss this: "No medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are."
3. Contrast one who is dominated by passions, and one who is dominated by exercise of will.
4. "To see the problem as a whole, and not in fragments: that is the goal of economic science." Give of example of this.
Arithmetic/Geometry (Questions from your math program may be substituted.)
1. Four children have some marbles. The first child has 1/10 of the marbles, the second child has 12 more marbles than the first, the third child has one more marble than what the first child has and the fourth child has double what the third child has. How many marbles are there?
2. Solve for x: 7x + 5 = -x + 41
3. What is the surface area of cylinder with radius of 2 cm and height 8 cm?
4. A youth group wants to raise $500 to attend a concert. They have raised $100 through donations. If they wash cars for $5.00 each, how many cars will they need to wash in order to earn what they still need for the concert?
5. Baileytown is 924 miles from Portsville. Wood City is three-fourths of the distance from Baileytown to Portsville. How many miles is it from Baileytown to Wood City?
Foreign Language
1. Write a paragraph in your foreign language about an act of bravery you read about this term.
2. Describe a picture in your language book, using your foreign language.
Picture Study
1. Describe a picture from this term's picture study.
Recitation
Father should choose a poem, two Bible verses and/or a scene from Shakespeare learned this term for student to recite.
Music (such as playing an instrument)
Parent or instructor should assess child's progress.
Music Appreciation
1. Tell about your favorite piece of music from this term.
2. Question to be taken from this term's Composer Study here.
Singing
Sing your favorite folksong and hymn from this term.
Handicrafts
Show some work in handicrafts from this term to someone outside your family.