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To: koan who wrote (47987)	7/7/2013 8:00:55 PM
From: longnshort	of 85487

Can you pass this 101-year-old test for 8th graders? Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post socialreader.com Back by popular demand (well, I like it) here's a 1912 eighth-grade exam that was used in schools in Bullitt County, Ky. This test, which I first published more than a year ago, is now in the Bullitt County History Museum, a service of the Bullitt County Genealogical Society. If you like this one, you can try this one too, an exam from 1931 by the West Virginia education department for students seeking graduation from eighth grade. That test was sent to me a few years ago by John N. Beall of Wilmington, N.C., who received it from his father, the teacher who administered the exam in a one-room school in Gilmer County. voices.washingtonpost.com Here's the 1912 Bullitt County test for eighth graders:

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