French. Junior. TRANSLATION; GRAMMAR; LA PICCIOLA. 1. Senior Paper, No. 3. (i) 2. Translate, La Picciola, p. 59, ll. 11-29; also p. 73, II. 8–19. "L'escalier tournant et massif." Account for the position of the adjectives. In what other cases does the adjective follow the noun ? (ii) “Quels graves enseignements." Distinguish between the use of quel and lequel. 3. "All prepositions govern the following verb in the infinitive." Give examples. What is the exception to this rule? 4. Translate: Get my boots cleaned. She is going to have her shoes mended.-Will you have my apron ironed for me?—Ask him in. 5. In what cases is the past participle invariable? Make sentences to illustrate each case. 6. Give a list of verbs which govern the subjunctive, and make sentences to exemplify their use. 7. Translate into English: Au bout d'une demi-heure de cette course désordonnée, à la faible lueur des étoiles, le Provençal s'aperçut qu'il se trouvait au bord d'une rivière, heureusement elle était presque à sec sur un certain point, et il parvint à diriger le chien vers le gué; l'animal avait évidemment l'habitude de traverser la rivière à la nage, mais il sautait de pierre en pierre comme s'il était convaincu de la supériorité intellectuelle de son maître. 8. Give a list of the French indefinite pronouns, with examples of their use. French. Senior. GRAMMAR; TRANSLATION; LA PICCIOLA, SAINTINE; 1. Higher Local Paper, No. 9. 2. Translate into French : It is several days' journey from New York to San Francisco, and yet these young people, being quite ignorant of geography, imagined that their friends would be at no great distance from them, and that they could go and see them pretty frequently. They were much distressed on finding out their mistake. 3. Give the primitive tenses of resoudre, se taire, traire, rire, croire. 4. What do you mean by impersonal verbs? Give instances of the impersonal use of active and neuter verbs. 5. Junior Paper, No. 2; also La Guerre, Tabl. V. Sc. xv. ll. 1935, and Tabl. VI. Sc. ii. ll. 8—18. (i) Comment on the words: cuiller, estafette, kopeck, coup de feu, amont. (ii) Why is Suwaroff compelled to fall back on Glarus? (iii) "Peut être aurons-nous des indications." Explain this inversion, and give similar instances. 6. Make sentences to shew the adverbial use of adjectives. 7. Give a list of conjunctions and conjunctive locutions which govern the subjunctive, making sentences so as to exemplify their use. 8. Translate into English: "Nicole.-Madame, parle bien. Je ne saurais plus voir mon ménage propre avec cet attirail de gens que vous faites venir chez vous. Ils ont des pieds qui vont chercher de la boue dans tous les quartiers de la ville pour l'apporter ici; et la pauvre Françoise est presque sur les dents, à frotter les planchers que vos biaux (beaux) maîtres viennent crotter regulièrement tous les jours." MOLIERE, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. 9. Higher Local Paper, No. 5. French. Higher Local. TRANSLATION; GRAMMAR; PHILOLOGY; LITERATURE, 1650-1700. 1. Translate into French: We have often heard men who wish, as almost all men of sense wish, that women should be highly educated, speak with rapture of the English ladies of the sixteenth century, and lament that they can find no modern damsel resembling those fair pupils of Ascham and Aylmer who compared, over their embroidery, the styles of Isocrates and Lysias, and who, while the horns were sounding and the hounds in full cry, sat in the lonely oriel, with eyes riveted to that immortal page which tells how meekly and bravely the first great martyr of intellectual liberty took the cup from his weeping gaoler. 2. Account for the suffix -ment in the formation of French adverbs. Derive céans, maintenant, naguère, désormais, assez. What were the earlier equivalents of beaucoup? 3. Make a list of Latin prepositions which have survived in French, giving both the earlier and the modern form. What French prepositions are formed from substantives? What from adjectives and adverbs? 4. Give examples of French compounds formed by means of nouns, shewing in each case the derivation from earlier Latin forms. 5. Translate the following idiomatic expressions: Ce pauvre enfant a le cœur gros.-Vous avez fort bonne mine dans votre nouvel uniforme.-Il n'y a pas là de quoi fouetter un chat-Nous allons tomber de mal en pis.-Il me fait dresser les cheveux avec ses contes horribles.-Chapeaux bas!—Chacun a son dada. 6. Translate: Boileau, Art Poétique, Chant II. ll. 123–138. Explain the word turlupin which occurs in this passage. 7. What is Boileau's advice to dramatists? on Molière. Give his criticism 8. (i) "Imitons de Marot l'élégant badinage." What do you know of the authors here referred to? 9. Write out the irregular tenses of tressaillir, vétir, valoir, coudre, croître, suivre. German. Junior. GRAMMAR AND TRANSLATION; VON RAUNER, DER ERSTE 1. Translate: KREUZZUG. (i) Wem zu glauben ist, redlicher Freund, das kann ich dir sagen; Glaube dem Leben; es lehrt besser als Redner und Buch. (ii) Epheu und ein zärtlich Gemüth Heftet sich an und grünt und blüht Kann es weder Stamm noch Mauer finden, (iii) Ein Kranz ist gar viel leichter binden, Give the principal parts of the verbs in the above. Decline the words in italics, and give the rule by which you assign each to its proper declension. According to what rule is Leben neuter? 2. Give the compound tenses of betrogen werden. 3. Translate: (i) Have you money enough to buy those highly recommended books? (ii) The boy began crying as soon as he saw he had lost his way. (iii) I hear that you have been travelling in Germany. Yes, I have. (iv) What did you do when you heard that your mother was ill? (v) Whose child has fallen into the water? (vi) Although he spoke in a loud voice, still I did not understand what he was saying. 4. Enumerate (i) all the neuter nouns making their plural in er, (ii) all the masculine monosyllables that form their plural in en. 5. Translate: Der Erste Kreuzzug, p. 40, 1. 10, to p. 41, 1. 7. (i) Explain the difference between hievon (1. 22) and von ihm. (ii) Give the indicative present and imperfect of enstehen and verlassen. (iii) auf den Kaiser (1. 9). Why does auf govern the ac cusative here? (iv) Give the nominative plural of Patriarch, Bewohner, Zwiespalt, Landthor. 6. Relate in your own words (in German) the fable of "The Fox and the Grapes." 7. Give the meaning (without a dictionary) of zweifelsohne, unansehnlich, wenn anders, umherschweifen, demgemäss, ordnungsmässig, zerfallen, warten (followed by genitive), and warten auf (followed by accusative). 8. What were the immediate causes which led to the undertaking of the Crusades? German. Senior. GRAMMAR; TRANSLATION; DER ERSTE KREUZZUG; 1. Translate: Auf diesem finstern Zeitgrund malet sich Ihr kennet ihn-den Schöpfer kühner Heere, (i) Parse the words in italics. (ii) Give the positive and comparative of höchste. (i) Oh! if I had but heard of it sooner!—It would be useless to ask you.-At these words, the man who still maintained that he was innocent, was removed from the court by the judge's orders. -Many a man has found that giving brings more blessing than receiving. The king should be honoured and loved by all his subjects.—They depend on your assistance. (ii) A resolution proposed in such very kind and flattering terms, and accepted with such an evidently sincere expression of good will, may justly be taken by the recipient as a guarantee that he has lent his aid to an enterprise, on the accomplishment of which he will hereafter be able to look back with feelings of satisfaction and pride. 3. Write out the verb verdriessen, and give the principal parts of sieden, verheissen, erschaffen, führen, 4. Decline the possessive pronouns meiner, ihrer, and the relative pronoun welcher, and illustrate their use. 5. Distinguish between the use of jener and derjenige. 6. Translate: Der Erste Kreuzzug, p. 41, 1. 30, to p. 42, 1. 27. (i) By what rules do you know Tritt to be masculine, Hoffnung and die Turkei to be feminine, and Geschrei, Betragen, Mädchen to be neuter? (ii) Decline Schaar, Gefahr, Muth. 7. Translate Die Picolomini, Act II. Sc. iv. 8. Quote from memory any twelve lines of this play. |