Can You Pass This 8th Grade Exam From 1912?
Can you answer this question, “Through
which waters would a vessel pass in going from England through the Suez Canal
to Manila?”
A century ago, or a year before the World
War I broke out, it seems that exams for middle school students in America required
very different knowledge and intelligence from now. They didn’t seem to be
required to learn so much about influences or consequences of environmental
problems or information technologies but seemed to be expected to learn basic and
common knowledge in those days like; How long of a rope is required to reach
from the top of a building 40 feet high to the ground 30 feet from the base of
a building?
Enjoy reading and solving some of the
questions being made 100 years ago.
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