1. Give the meaning of le manche, la manche, le manœuvre, la manœuvre, le mémoire, la mémoire, l'office (masc. and fem.), le paillasse, la paillasse, le solde, la solde, le vague, la vague. 2. Give the feminine of ambassadeur, inférieur, tiers, las, hébreu, traître, ambitieux, gai, actif, protecteur, pécheur, vendeur. 3. How do you express the following forms of the comparative: more... than; less... than ; as . . . as; not so... as; as many • as? 4. What prepositions are required after favorable, reconnaissant, nécessaire, ingrat, célèbre, soigneux, utile, propre, conforme, ennuyé, charmé, capable? 5. Write the 2nd pers. sing. of the future indic. of the verbs:-peut, retenait, connaissait, revient, attendait, allait, ramener, reproduire, pleurer. 6. Distinguish between vaquant, vacant; intriguant, intrigant; fatiguant, fatigant; frabiquant, frabricant; extravaguant, extravagant; croisant, croissant; prisent, prissent; baisant, baissant. 7. In what mood do you put the verb following falloir? How would you use falloir when followed by a noun? Give examples. 8. Explain the two different ways of translating to know and to live. 9. Parse every word of the sentence:-"Remettez ces livres à celui qui vous les a prêtés," mentioning what part each noun or pronoun plays in the sentence (whether subject or object). 10. Give the English of-Au fort de l'hiver. Je me suis donné un effort. Qu'à cela ne tienne. Prendre des renseignements. Etre en train. Vous le voulez bien, n'est-ce pas ? A tort et à travers. Il est aux abois. GENERAL PAPER. 1. Explain the following terms:-landlord, tenant, realty, personalty, sovereign, subject, alien. 2. Explain the policy of William the Conqueror towards (i.) the Norman Barons, (ii.) the Church, (iii) the English. How far was it continued by his successors? 3. State the circumstances under which the English people have made war upon, and sometimes deposed their kings. 4. When were the following places gained by England:-Channel Islands, Canada, Bombay, Ceylon, Cape of Good Hope, Jamaica, Malta ? 5. State what you know of the Princes of Wales who died before succeeding to the throne. 6. Give the chief events in the history of the English Church from the Reformation to the Restoration. 7. Give a short life of only three out of the following, taking one from each division:(i.) Anselm, William Wallace, Thomas Cromwell, the Protector Somerset. (ii.) Leicester, Buckingham, Lady Arabella Stuart, Archbishop Laud. (iii.) Charles James Fox, Canning, John Wesley, the Duke of Wellington. 8. Assign dates to the following events:-The battles of Tenchebray, Alnwick, and Falkirk, the Pilgrimage of Grace, the Gunpowder Plot, the Establishment of the East India Company, the Massacre of Glencoe, the Establishment of the Bank of England, the Triennial Bill, the Treaty of Ryswick, the Union of England and Scotland, and the Quadruple Alliance. 1. How many principal varieties of the human race are there? How are they distinguished, and what regions of the globe do they respectively inhabit ? 2. Classify the rivers of Asia according to the seas into which they fall. Name the three largest rivers, and also the three most important in a commercial view; and give particulars of any one of these. 3. Give the position of the following places and state what you know about each:- -Adelaide, Ajaccio, Allahabad, Batavia, Cabul, Cronstadt, Hobart Town, Muscat, Odessa, Ottawa, Rouen, Yarkand. 4. State, as precisely as you can, the position of the Minch, Straits of Messina, Cattegat, Gulf of Egina, Sea of Azov, Zuyder Zee, Gulfs of Salonica and Lepanto, Straits of Bonifacio and Kertch, the Dardanelles, the Gulf of Bothnia, and the Sound. 5. Upon what does the climate of a place depend? Mention some important modifying causes. 6. What countries are included in the Chinese Empire? What is the prevailing religion in those countries ? What do you know about its doctrines or mode of worship? 7. Draw a map of Hindostan; or, describe in words its boundaries, mountains, and rivers. 8. If a person travel from Moscow to London will his watch appear to have gained or lost ? Give a reason for your answer. 1. The sum of two numbers is five millions and five. The smaller one is one million and three. Determine their product. 2. What shall I save on the dozen of wine, if, instead of buying it bottled at 24s. the doz., I buy a cask containing 26 doz. for £25 15s. 6d., and bottle it myself, corks and bottles costing 2s. a dozen ? 3. Make out the bill for 17 tons of tin ore, at 55s. per ton; 147 links of iron chain, at 21d. per link; 37 yards of iron piping, at 2s. 6d. per foot; and 2 cwt. of lead pipe, at 3d. per lb. 4. Perform the operations involved in :(속) + ₩ of 곰 79$ 3314 (i.) 5. If I buy 729 articles at 5s. 7 d. each, and sell them at 7s. 7 d. each; how much do I gain ? 6. Find the value of 5.056 + 00712 3·00084. Multiply 40 by 004. Determine the value of £1, £01, and £001. 7. Calculate the cost of 16 cwt. 3 qrs. 13 lbs. at £32 13s. 4d. per ton. 8. A grocer mixes 72 lbs. of tea at 2s. 10 d. per lb. with 90 lbs. of tea at 2s. 6d. per lb.; at what price per lb. must he sell the mixture so as to gain 5d. per lb. ? 9. A man has been paying income tax at 3d. in the £. The tax is raised to 4d.; but he is now allowed to deduct £180 from his income, paying tax on the remainder only. The total amount of tax he now pays is the same as before. Find his income. 10. What sum must I invest in the 4 per cents. at 95 to have an income of £150, clear of income tax at 2d. in the £? 1. Prove that Pq (p.x3-qy3) + (p3x —p3y) xy = 0, if px =qy. 2. Divide (i.) 238y3 2723 18xyz by x-2y-3z. 1y — y2 by x2 + x1y* —y‡. (ii.) x + xy — y* by x 3. Find the G.C.M. and L.C.M. of x1 — y1, x3 + y3, x3y + x2y2 + xy3 + y1. 4. Extract the square root of x — 4x3 + 8x + 4, and of 5. Prove that (a — b)3 + (b — c)3 + (c — a)3 = 3 (a 6. Simplify · b) (b c) (c — a). (ii.) 7 x + by — (x + y) = y + $2 (2xy 14 8. A sum of money consists of shillings and crowns, and is worth as many florins as there are pieces of money; also the square of the number of crowns is equal to twice the number of shillings; find the sum. |