Exam Questions: Form 3B, Term 1

Student's Name: _________________________

Date of Exam: _________________________

Bible and Spiritual Formation

     1. What makes Jesus so different? OR Was Jesus "Lord, liar, or lunatic?" Explain why this matters. OR Explain a couple of ways the Eyewitness Evidence of Jesus' biographers can be tested. Does the evidence pass or fail?

     2. Give an account of Korah's rebellion, Or, "Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?" Tell the story.

     3. What did Jesus teach about "an eye for an eye"? or, "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men. . ." Why not?

Writing/Penmanship

     Write 8-10 lines of poetry from memory.

Dictation

     (Assigned passage is in the Exam Key.)

Composition/Literature

     1. Narrate a scene from Watership Down.

     2. Tell an episode from Joan of Arc.

     3. Summarize one of the stories from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

English Grammar

     1. Write sentences that give examples of three kinds of (a), pronouns, and, (b), adjectives.

     2. Write two sentences using prepositional phrases.

     3. Choose "is" or "are." Making responsible life decisions __ important to success.

     4. Parse the italicized words (or identify which part of speech?): "All was confusion, ignorance, clambering and exhaustion. Throughout the bad dream of the night's journey, Pipkin seemed to be always close beside him."

World History

     1. What do you know about the Battle of Crecy?

     2. Discuss the Black Death in medieval England/Europe.

     3. What do you know of Richard II or Henry Bolingbroke?

     4. Write a short account of Joan of Arc.

     5. What do you know about Wycliffe?

Geography

     1. Tell something of La Isabela. Or, Give an account of Columbus's voyage across the ocean.

     2. Tell what you know about the tobacco trade or malaria. Or, Describe Columbus's landing on Cuba, or Hispaniola.

Natural History and General Science

     1. Choose a question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.

     2. Choose a question matched to your term's science subject from here or from your science program.

     3. Tell the different parts of plant roots, and what the root does.

     4. "The alchemists had the wrong idea, but went about it in the right way." Explain..

     5. Tell something of the field cricket, or Tycho Brahe.

Citizenship

     1. Choose a Year 7-10 Question from this term's Plutarch from this page

     2. Name two Desires and explain how each can both help or hinder us.

     3. Give some differences between false love and real love.

Reading Skill

     Choose an unseen passage, giving marks for enunciation.

Arithmetic/Geometry (Questions from your math program may be substituted.)

     1. -6 - 4 = __

     2. Samuel reads two old books for every modern book. If he has read 15 books so far this month, how many old books did he read?

     3. Jordan put red candy hearts on six of cookies on each cookie sheet. Each cookie sheet has a dozen cookies. What percentage of cookies has red candy hearts?

     4. The difference of two numbers is 1. Their sum is 17. What are the numbers?

Foreign Language

     1. In your foreign language, write three sentences about yourself.

     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

     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.

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