Ambleside Online Exam Questions Year 5 Term 2

Student'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 4 lines of a poem that you memorized this term.

Dictation
The boy was very ill, he said, and weak from the loss of blood; but his mind was so troubled with anxiety to disclose something, that he deemed it better to give him the opportunity, than to insist upon his remaining quiet until next morning: which he should otherwise have done.

Composition
1. Describe your favorite scene or character from the Shakespeare play you read this term.
2. Name any of Oliver Twist’s "friends" and tell how their actions effect Oliver’s situation for good or bad. OR tell the story of Antigone or Aristaeus the Bee-keeper

English Grammar
Underline the subjects and circle the predicates in the following quote:
      I shot an arrow into the air,
      It fell to earth, I knew not where;
      For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
      Could not follow it in its flight.
      I breathed a song into the air,
      It fell to earth, I knew not where;
      For who has sight so keen and strong,
      That it can follow the flight of song?
            Longfellow

U.S. History
1. What do you know about the Underground Railroad?
2. Describe the taking of New Orleans OR the Battle of Gettysburg.
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World History
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Geography
If you used Hillyer's Child's Geography of the World:
1. What do you know about England, 'The land of the Angles"? OR Spain? OR France?
2. "The Gates of Paradise and Dome of Heaven" refer to what? OR What is meant by the Iron Curtain countries?
3.
If you used Halliburton's The Book of Marvels:
1. Tell what you know about "No Woman's Land" OR one of the wonders of the Ancient World.
2. Describe a place you read about this term that you'd like to visit.

Natural History and General Science
1. What kind of nourishment/food do plants need? How do they take it in?
2. Describe or draw the parts of the eye.
3. Tell of some of the bones in your body OR tell what you know of how the muscles in the body work.
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 two boxes of cereal at $3.24 each, a gallon of milk at $4.24, and two loaves of bread at $1.81 each, how much will I spend?
2. Multiply 18 x 42 x 73. Divide 3744 by 16.
3. What is 1/4 + 2/3 + 5/6?

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.