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Actual Answers to Sixth Grade History Tests
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Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics
They lived in the Sarah Dessert The climate of the Sarah is such that the
inhabitants have to live elsewhere. |
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The Bible is full of interesting caricatures In the first book of
the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree One
of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"
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Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened
bread, which is bread made without any ingredients Moses went up on Mount
Cyanide to get the ten commandments He died before he ever reached Canada. |
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Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. |
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The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we couldn't
have history The Greeks also had myths A myth is a female
moth. |
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Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name. |
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Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice
They killed him Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his
death, his career suffered a dramatic decline. |
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In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw
the java. |
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Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks History calls people
Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. |
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Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul The
Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made
king Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
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Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the
fiddle to them. |
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Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. |
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Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the
same offense. |
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In midevil times most people were alliterate The greatest writer of
the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also
wrote literature. |
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Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple
while standing on his son's head. |
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Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success
When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah."
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It was an age of great inventions and discoveries Gutenberg invented
removable type and the Bible Another important invention was the
circulation of blood Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure
because he invented cigarettes and started smoking And Sir Francis
Drake circumcised the world with a -foot clipper. |
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The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare He
was born in the year , supposedly on his birthday He never made much
money and is famous only because of his plays He wrote tragedies,
comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter Romeo and
Juliet are an example of a heroicouplet Romeo's last wish was to be
laid by Juliet. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim's
Progress The winter of was a hard one for the settlers
Many died and many babies were born Captain John Smith was
responsible for all this. |
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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. |
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Delegates from the original states formed the Contented Congress.
Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the
Declaration of Independence Franklin discovered electricity by
rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself
cannot stand." Franklin died in and is still dead. |
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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. |
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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 ,, 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. |
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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. |
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Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number
of children In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept
up in his attic Bach died from to the present Bach was
the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel Handel was
half German half Italian and half English He was very large. |
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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 and later died for
this. |
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The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted
into Napoleon Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since
Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't have any children. |
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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 years She was a moral woman
who practiced virtue Her death was the final event which ended her
reign. |
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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. |