Can You Answer These 8th Grade History Questions From 1908?
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After taking the quiz, do you think you would have been admitted to high school in 1908?
The following questions are some of those given to Minnesota 8th grade students on a 1908 exam. The exam was prepared by the State High School Board and is described as the "principal examination for admission to the state high schools of Minnesota."
What are your thoughts on this subject?
274 Comments
Cheryl Love
Leapy Lee, I did write 50s/60s.
Leapy Lee
Cheryl Love, I think that depended very much on where you went to school. Even the classes I took with a “world” view were extremely US centric in their tunnel vision. Perhaps it is easier for an outsider to see (I am an Aussie). Even concepts such as socialism and communism were so poorly defined as to be virtually inseparable for young impressionable students. I’m talking early 1970s Mid West here.
Cheryl Love
Berkley Folks, we had courses on world history, yes. More than USA history. I don’t know about kids today, what they’re taught, but school in the 50s/60s was very good.
Cheryl Love
Tal Segal, 9/9 for me. I wouldn’t expect those not from here to know these. Some are fairly obscure.
Joe Mangan
Karen Benuska, that's what quizzes are mainly for. Well done,
Joe Mangan
tagreenlaw, I would have expected Alexa to score better than 2/9.
Steve Kemp
Can I answer these 8th Grade History questions?' Yes I can but these aren't 'history' questions, these ar 'American history' lessons. Try asking real history lessons, not just 'yesterday' questions from 1492 - as the date indicates, there was a lot more history before America was invented.
Paul Greenslade
8/9 for this Australian.
William Laughlin
mikeyparry,
The preface to this test clearly states that the test was administered in Minnesota. Where do you suppose Minnesota is?
William Laughlin
myers nj,
These are all familiar subjects to anyone who has studied American history in the US. There were no obscure questions here. I learned this by the time I was 13 or 14!
Where did you go to school, that this information seems obscure to you? I can understand it being obscure to non-Americans perhaps, but this was all included in the New Jersey curriculum.
William Laughlin
Antonio Cobian,
What are you talking about? There were answers.
They came up green when correct, red when wrong with the correct answer in green! SMH
Tal Segal
Being a non American, this was the quiz I have received the lowest score on. 3/9. I wonder how the Americans have done
mikeyparry
4 / 9. Not bad considering that I have never studied American history! I am English!.
Suzanne Wilson
Oh dear! I'm Australian with a record of above average in trivia. I scored a humbling 4.
Myrna Olson
Should have read, American History! I am Canadian and got 6/9! (2 were guesses)