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Yeah, one of the spelling words is misspelled.
That's about par for the eighth grade teachers I've dealt with.
Other than the topics being a lot less topical in 2024 than they would have been in 1912, I don't see any big qualitative difference between this and what my 8th graders first semester finals looked like. Across all subjects they had to know a lot more information than that, perform much more advanced math, and write more essays.
8th grade is Algebra 1, English 1, second year of a foreign language and fine art if they didn't take immersion in either, and their last year of general science and social studies before they get into required HS credits in lab sciences, founding documents and economics. They also would have had Geometry and more advanced math like multiplying fractions, exponents, roots and so on in previous years.
If that makes your local schools look bad, it's because they are, whatever year it is.