II.

COMPOSITION.

Time, 1 hr.

1. Distinguish clearly between a complex and compound sentence. Compose a complex sentence containing an example of apposition.

2. Define (1) dislocation, (2) ambiguity. Give an example of each, and show how it may be corrected in each case.

3. State the requirements of a letter with respect to (1) Language, (2) Mechanical arrangement. Write a brief letter to a friend acknowledging the receipt of a present.

4. Specify the different kinds of narration. State in detail the different kinds of composition with which each deals.

5. What is meant by exposition? Expand into an expository paragraph: "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just."

II.

GRAMMAR AND ANALYSIS.

1. Give the general and particular analysis of:

How often have I blessed the coming day,

Time, 1 hr.

When toil, remitting, lent its turn to play;
And all the village train, from labour free,

Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree.

2. Parse the italicized words in the aforegoing passage.

3. Give any two special rules for the formation of the plural of nouns, and write down the plural of Wharf, folio, cherub, index, memorandum, spoonful, grotto, echo, monkey.

4. Name six adjectives which are compared irregularly, and write down the comparative and superlative of each. What classes of adjectives do not admit of comparison?

5. What Prepositions should follow glad, true, insinuate, intervene? Frame short sentences to illustrate your answer.

6. Write down the past tense and past participle of: Rend, dive, wed, abide, tread, seek, hew, cleave, shoe, sue. Give the 1st pers. sing. of each tense indic. mood,

active voice of the verb hew.

1. Who wrote the following? Name also the poem from which each quotation is made :

(c) "The forests, with their myriad tongues, shouted of liberty." (d) "Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries

Even in our ashes live their wonted fires."

2. Quote the first two stanzas of Gray's "Elegy."

3. Write notes explanatory of the italicized words or phrases in:

(a) O'er fell and fountain sheen.

(b) 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.

(c) Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea.

(d) From Jura's crags and Mona's hills.

4. What is the meaning and derivation of animated, mansion, exhausted, ignoble. Give other derivations from the same roots.

5. Give two examples of each of the following figures of speech from poems that you have read in Reader V.: Simile, Metaphor, Personification.

2. June 4. John Hall sold Peter Brown 3 bbls. Flour @ $5, for which he took in part payment 3 cords of Wood @ $3. Show how the transaction is posted (a) in Hall's books, and (b) in Brown's books.

3. June 10. Hall agreed to settle the above for $5 in cash, and gave Brown a receipt in full. Write the receipt.

II

PHYSICS.

Five Questions make a full paper.

Time, 1 hr.

1. Account for the ascent of a baloon; the weight of a stone; the upward pressure of the air; the buoyancy of water; the fall of the mercury in a barometer as it is carried up a mountain.

2. (a) A tube 40 feet long, closed at one end, is filled with mercury, and inverted with its open end in a vessel of mercury. (b) The same tube, filled with mercury, is inverted in a vessel of water. (c) Is filled with water and inverted in a vessel of water. Describe and account for the results in each case.

3. Basing your calculation upon results obtained in the preceding experiments (question 2) find the specific gravity of mercury. Explain the operation.

4. How would you prove, experimentally, the presence of invisible water vapour in the atmosphere ? Name the several visible forms which this vapour assumes; classify them as solids, liquids, or gases and account for their formation.

5. Define cohesion, adhesion, capillary attraction, and give useful applications of each.

6. The upper end of the column of mercury in a Fahrenheit thermometer is half way between the freezing point of water and the boiling point: what is the Fahrenheit reading and the equivalent Centigrade reading. (Exhibit the operations.)

I. F. and II. M.

GEOMETRY.

Time, 1 hr. 30 min.

Read this paper before commencing work.

1. (a) If two straight lines cut one another, the vertically opposite angles must be equal. (b) If a quadrilateral fig. be such that the diagonals bisect one another, the opposite sides are equal.

2. (a) Any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side. (b) The 4 sides of any quadrilateral are together greater than its two diagonals taken together.

3. (a) In any right angled triangle the square described on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the sum of squares described on sides containing the right angle. (b) If the diagonals of a quadrilateral cut each other perpendicularly, then the sum of squares on one pair of opposite sides is equal to the sum of squares on the other pair.

4. (a) To divide a given straight line into two parts so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one part shall be equal to the square on the other part. (b) Show that when a line is divided as in this proposition the sum of the squares on the whole line and smaller part is three times the square on the larger part.

5. If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the squares on the whole line and on one of the parts are equal to twice the rectangle contained by the whole and that part together with the square on the other part.

NOTE. Female candidates for Class I. will omit the 2nd and 4th of the foregoing questions and work the following instead:

6. If from a point without a circle a secant and a tangent be drawn to the circle, then the rectangle contained by the secant and its external part is equal to the square on the tangent.

7. If a circle be inscribed in a right angled triangle, the difference between the hypothenuse and the sum of the other sides is equal to the diameter of the circle.

NOTE. When female candidates have worked this paper, they will receive, on application, the paper set for male candidates, and will receive credit for any work thereon, provided the work is in advance of Book IV.

2. Show that (x-1) (y+1)-(+1) (y-1)=2 (a-y) (xy-1).

3. Show that the product of any two numbers is equal to one-quarter of the difference between the square of their sum and the square of their difference.

4. Find the factors of (a) 1+18x-63x2 (b) 3x2y — 24y2.

7. A and B have $100 between them; but if A should lose half of his and B one-third of his they would then have only $55 between them. How much has each?

8. A hare is pursued by a greyhound and is 60 of her own leaps ahead. The hare makes 3 leaps while the hound makes 2; but the hound goes as far in 3 leaps as the hare does in 7. In how many leaps will the hound catch the hare?

CLASS III.

III.

SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Time, 45 min.

1. Name the amounts the several classes of Teachers receive from the Provincial

Treasury.

2. State the manner in which the District assessment is levied.

3. The Annual Meeting? When is it held? How called? Name the principal business that can be done at it.

4. How do you find the "Grand total days attended by all the pupils" and "Per centage of enrolled pupils daily present on an average."

5. What is the Teacher's duty in respect to (a) Health of pupils. (b) Discipline. (c) Temperature. (d) Returns.

N. B.-Any four questions to be considered a full paper.

III.

TEACHING AND SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.

Time, 2 hrs.

1. What apparatus is required for teaching number up to 10? Up to 100? How far are these appliances useful?

2. How would you teach the Tables of Weights and Measures? Illustrate in the case of Liquid Measure by giving a lesson plan.

3. What are the objects to be aimed at in teaching Reading to Grade IV.?

4. What are the benefits of teaching Singing in schools? How do you propose to do it, and to what extent?

5. What is the value of Health lessons, and how will you endeavor to make them of practical use to your pupils?

6. How do you propose to teach pupils their duties (a) to themselves, (b) to each other (c) to the teacher, (d) to the school?

7. Is it possible to have good order in a school without good discipline? What do you consider the best kind of order?

8. Select any one of the following faults and state fully how you would deal with it, viz. Communication in any form, Untruthfulness, Inattention, Tardiness, Disobedience, Impertinence.

9. How would you proceed to classify a school.

10. Write out a special time table for a day, and the accompanying programme for one session before recess.

N. B.-4 and 5 are alternates.