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Subject: Actual Answers to Sixth Grade History tests Part II 16. Queen Elizabeth was the
"Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself
before her troops they all shouted
17. It was an age of
great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type
and the Bible. Another important invention
18. The greatest writer
of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564,
supposedly on his birthday. He never
19. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained. 20. During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. 21. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim's Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this. 22. One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. 23. Delegates from
the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson,
a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two
24. Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms. 25. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career. 26. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees. 27. Johann Bach wrote
a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children.
In between he practiced on an old spinster
28. Beethoven wrote
music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music.
He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him.
Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
29. The French Revolution
was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon.
Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his
30. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign. 31. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers. To the teachers of the world, we hail you! At least in reading these papers, you probably have a few chuckles! TMI US Staff
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