Ambleside Online Exam Questions Year 5 Term 1

Child's Name _________________________

Date of Exam ____________________________

Bible
1. In your own words, tell about your favorite character that you read in your Bible reading this term.
2. In your own words, tell about your favorite event that you read in your Bible reading this term.

Writing
Write 2-4 lines of a poem that you memorized this term.

Dictation (Wild Animals I Have Known)
When the spring came I set about his serious education. After much pains on my behalf and many pains on his, he learned to go at the word in quest of our old yellow cow, that pastured at will on the unfenced prairie.

Composition
1. Describe your favorite scene or character from the Shakespeare play you read this term.
2. Describe the scene where young Arthur wins a sword OR tell the story of Hercules.

English Grammar
Underline the subjects and circle the predicates in the following quote:
   Love and Death once ceased their strife
   At the Tavern of Man's Life.
   Called for wine, and threw -- alas! --
   Each his quiver on the grass.
   When the bout was o'er they found
   Mingled arrows strewed the ground.
   Hastily they gathered then
   Each the loves and lives of men.

U.S. History
1. What do you know about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
2. Tell what you know about the Monroe Doctrine.
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World History
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Geography
If you used Hillyer's Child's Geography of the World:
1. What's inside the world? OR What do you know about the country that borders the northern US?
2. What do you know about New York, the Empire State OR California "the 'est Best"?
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If you used Halliburton's The Book of Marvels:
1. What do you know about the Grand Canyon OR the Panama Canal?
2. Describe a place you read about this term that you'd like to visit.

Natural History and General Science
1. Describe the journey of a drop of water.
2. Tell what happens to food before it goes into the stomach OR Describe how the heart works.
3. What do you know of how the brain sends and receives messages?

Citizenship/Government (Plutarch)

Reading Skill
Father or friend to select a passage for student to read aloud.

Arithmetic/Geometry Questions are based on this scope and sequence; you may substitute questions based on your own math program.
1. If I buy a table for $59.99 and four chairs at $14.75 each, how much will I have to spend?
2. How much carpet would be needed for a room 12 1/2' by 13'?
3. What is half of 24? What is one sixth of 24?

Foreign Language
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Picture Study
1. Describe your favorite picture from this term's picture study.

Singing
Sing this term's folksong and a hymn, which the father may choose from the three learned this term, in front of parents.

Handicrafts
Show some work in handicrafts from this term to someone outside your family.