2. Parse the words in italics in the passage selected for analysis.

3. State and illustrate the various ways in which changes of gender are indicated in English nouns.

4. Write three short sentences showing the use of the word "that" as a conjunction, as a relative, and as a demonstrative respectively.

5. In the case of nouns derived from English nouns, what ideas are conveyed by the terminations en, ness, stead, ster? Give an example of each.

6. What prepositions should follow absolve, adapted, independent, need, dissent? Frame short sentences to illustrate your answer.

II.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Time, 1 hr.

1. Give the titles of all the different selections you can remember, contained in Reader V., from the poetical works of each of the following authors: (a) Byron, (b) Tennyson, (c) Mrs. Hemans, (d) Campbell, (e) Goldsmith, (f) Scott.

2. Write at least one stanza from each of any three of the selections you have named. 3. Write brief biographical notes concerning (a) Tennyson, (b) Dickens, (c) Longfellow, (d) Wordsworth.

4. State the poem from which each of the following is taken and write notes explanatory of the italicised words or phrases :

(a) Again the Day-star gilds the gloom.

(b) Let the portcullis fall.

(c) Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

(d) And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering" rose !

The War-note of Lochiel which Albyn's hills have heard.

(e) Can storied urn or animated bust

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?

5. Give an example from your reading of (a) Simile, (b) Metaphor, (c) Personification, (d) Antithesis, and show in each example what advantage to the clearness of meaning, or beauty and strength of style has been gained by the use of figurative language.

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

(As in Class I.

1. Name the books used in single entry book-keeping, and state the purpose for which each is used.

2. In which of the books ought you to find whether a person owes you or you owe him, and under what head?

3. On January 1st, 1885, sold to John Rye 7 bbls. flour @ $5.75, for which he paid on account $30. On January 10th, sold John Rye 20 lbs. tea @ 45 cts., 6 bbls. of apples @ $3.25, and 26 lbs. of sugar @ 9 cts., and received from him 2 tons of hay @ $12 and 6 bbls. of potatoes @ 75 cts. Show how to enter the above in proper form in a day-book, and in the ledger. 4. Give an example of an order for goods on H. Jones, Halifax.

II.

PHYSICS.

Time, 1 hr.

1. What is the specific gravity of distillad water? How do you know? If the volume of a pound of distilled water is 27.7274 cu. in., what is the volume of a pound of mercury? Show work.

2. Would it require more or less force to lift a piece of lead in a vacuum than in air? How much more or less? Show why.

3. Explain the directive power of the magnetic needle, i. e., why it points north and south.

4. Explain the attraction of a pith ball by a glass rod which has been rubbed with silk. Also explain the repulsion of the pith ball immediately after it has touched the glass.

5. Define or explain: Capillary attraction; force of gravity; elasticity; valve; barometer; malleability; cohesion; molecule. Give an example or an application of each.

6. Explain the action of the common pump, and shew that there is a limit to the height to which water can be raised by it.

NOTE.-Five questions make a full paper.

I F., II. M.

GEOMETRY.

Time, 1 hr. 30 min.

1. If the side of an equilateral triangle is equal to unity find the length of the perpendicular from any vertex to the side opposite. In an isosceles right-angled triangle if each of the equal sides is equal to unity find the length of the hypotenuse.

2. Describe a parallelogram that shall be equal to a given triangle and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.

3. To a given straight line to apply a parallelogram which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.

4. In a right angled triangle what is the square of the side opposite the right angle equal to? In an obtuse angled triangle what is the square of the side opposite the obtuse angle equal to? In any triangle what is the square of a side opposite an acute angle equal to ?

5. If a straight line be bisected and produced to any point the rectangle contained by the whole line thus produced and the part of it produced, together with the square on half the line bisected, is equal to the square on the straight line made up of the half and the part produced.

N. B. Female candidates for class I. will omit the 3rd and 5th and work the following:

(a) Equal chords in a circle are equally distant from the centre and converse. (b) The opposite angles of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are equal to two right angles. After proving this, state its converse.

I. F. and II. M.

ALGEBRA.

Time, 1 hr. 30 min.

1. Find the highest common factor of x-x, 2x2-4x+2, x2+x2-2x.

1. Find the least common multiple of 5x+2x-15x-6 and 7x-4x2-21x.+12.

6. Find two numbers whose difference is 6, such that if the less be added to the greater, the sum shall be equal to the greater diminished by the less.

7. A after doing three-fifths of a piece of work in 30 days finishes it in 10 days with the help of B. Find in what time each would do it.

8. A certain number of two digits is equal to five times the sum of its digits; and if 9 be added to the number the digits are reversed; find the number.

III.

CLASS III.

SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Time, 1 hr.

1. What is the date of the Annual School Meeting, and in what order should the business be conducted?

2. What are the duties of the teacher in respect to his pupils (a) in the school-room, (b) on the play-ground, (c) on their way to and from school?

3. What are the privileges of Teachers in respect to religious exercises at the opening and close of school? What prohibitions are teachers under in regard to religious matters ?

4. What requirements may the teacher make of the pupils in regard (a) to the pupils' appearance and conduct, (b) to tardiness or absence from school, (c) to textbooks.

5. What would you do, in case a pupil should be disobedient and refractory?

III.

TEACHING AND SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.

Time, 2 hrs.

1. How do you expect to make the work of your school interesting to your pupils ?

2. Describe the method you will adopt to teach the first steps of reading.

3. Write out a lesson-plan for a lesson to Standard III. on any one of the following subjects: geography; arithmetic; English grammar. Select your own topic.

4. How do you propose to teach (a) writing from the copy-book, (b) spelling?

5. When would you consider a school well organized?

6. Write out a time table for a miscellaneous school of three classes for a day. Show how you would keep the separate classes employed in the morning session before

recess.

7. What is school discipline? On what conditions does good discipline depend?

8. How would you endeavor to make your pupils respectful, kind to each other, obedient, truthful?

III.

GEOGRAPHY.

Time, 1 hr. 30 min.

PART I.

1. Define isthmus, oasis, river basin, zone, meridian.

2. Explain the cause of day and night.

3. Name the coast waters, islands and headlands to be seen in a voyage from St. Stephen to Campbellton, or the rivers and towns passed in a railway journey between the same points.

4. Mention the chief towns on the St, Lawrence and the Great Lakes; or, the principal seaports of Great Britain and Ireland.

PART II.

5. Draw a map of New Brunswick.

NOTE. The Examiner will allow 70 marks for Part I. and 30 for Part II.

ENGLISH AND CANADIAN HISTORY.

(As in Class II.)

III.

ARITHMETIC.

Time, 1 hr. 30 min.

[Exhibit the operations clearly. Questions in which the proof or explanation, is required, are of greater value than the others. The explanation is reckoned of as much or greater value than the operation, but the unitary method is held to include both.] 1. A hogshead of molasses containing 120 gals. cost $40. Twenty gallons leaked out. At how much per gallon must the remainder be sold in order to gain 20 per cent?

2. What will the carpeting required for a floor, 15 ft. 6 in. long and 12 ft. 6 in. wide, cost at $2.40 per yard, the carpeting being 30 in. wide?

3. A and B together can do a piece of work

days. In what time could B do it?
unitary method.

in three days. A alone can do it in five Explain the operation, or work by the

4. Find the greatest common measure of 273 and 2808 without factoring, and prove that the result must be the g. c. m.

5. Reduce to a decimal, and divide the result by four thousand five hundred and ninety-six and eighty-seven thousand and ninety-four millionths until the quotient contains three digits. Explain the method by which you determined the place of the point in the quotient.