ELEMENTS OF LOGIC. Set to Candidates for the situation of Inspector of Schools (Ireland). 2 hours allowed. 1. What are the most frequent sources of erroneous opinion? 2. What are the commonest forms of incorrect reasoning? 3. Distinguish between analytical and synthetical reasoning. 4. To what extent are definitions useful in reasoning? 5. To what extent do we reason in syllogisms? Of what use is the analysis of reasoning into syllogisms? 6. Can induction be reduced to the form of syllogism? 7. How do observation and experiment differ? What is the province of each? 8. What is the form of the ultimate principles of knowledge? 9. Explain the terms connotation and denotation. 10. Give the special rules of the figures of syllogism, and prove them. RHETORIC AND CRITICISM. Set to Candidates for the situation of Inspector of Schools (Ireland). 2 hours allowed. 1. Distinguish between metaphors and similes. 2. Quote and comment on some of the most happily-chosen epithets in Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Penseroso." 3. "It is a mistake to express everything in an equally high-wrought, "brilliant, and forcible style."-(Archbishop Whately.) Mention any authors who may appear to you to have transgressed this rule. 4. Illustrate from Shakespeare the tendency of persons under strong excitement to use a great boldness of poetical expression. 5. Is the term poetry properly applied to Pope's "Moral Essays"? 6. Quote instances where the effect of a passage depends on the reticence and reserve with which the thought is expressed. 7. What is meant by antithesis, climax, tautology, aposiopesis, emphasis? 8. Johnson says that Milton "looked at nature through the spectacles " of books." Illustrate this criticism by quotations from the earlier books of "Paradise Lost." ENGLISH GRAMMAR. No. 1. 1. Give the plural of the following substantives :-knife, wife, die, cry, house, grouse, wealth, donkey, country, ox; or, if any of them have no plural, state the reason why they have not. 2. Give (1) the past tense active, (2) the past participle, of the verbs weave, leave, find, blind, slay, catch, break, take, see, flee. 3. Parse fully the following sentence : "In all animals there is an instinct which leads them to pro"tect their young from injury." 4. Conjugate the verb to bear. 5. Distinguish between council and counsel; great and grate; rude and rood; slip and slide; stupid and foolish. Write short sentences in each of which one of the words given above shall be used so as to show that you understand the meaning of it. 6. Write short sentences, showing the various meanings of each of the following words :-bow, page, fly, fleet, lead. 7. Analyse the following passage : "Nelson was obeyed by his men with alacrity and joy, because he possessed their confidence and love." 66 8. Enumerate the different kinds of pronouns, and give instances of each. 9. State and exemplify some of the most important rules of punctuation. 66 10. "Being deeply impressed with the value of learning, I have spent some years in learning Latin, and am now learning Greek." Explain the different uses of the word learning in this sen tence. No. 2. Set to Candidates for the situation of Inspector of Schools (Ireland). 2 hours allowed. 1. What is considered to be the pervading peculiarity of English grammar, as compared with the grammars of most other tongues? Illustrate the peculiarity. 2. Name (singular and plural) the demonstrative pronouns. Show how they differ in sense from each other. Name the adverbs (1) of time, (2) of place, which correspond respectively to each demonstrative pronoun. 3. Analyse the following sentence, and parse fully the words in italics : Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see, My heart untravelled still returns to thee, Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, 4. Give the derivations of the following words: heaven, blame, poison, bayonet, priest, panegyric, field, disastrous, king, currants. 5. Give examples of Saxon words in English; of Latin words taken directly from the Latin; of Latin words derived through the French; and of words neither Saxon nor Latin. Classify the words you mention of the last kind. 6. What is etymologically curious in the following words :—its, pence, chickens, shepherdess, what, which, kine, seamstress, brethren, dice, am, welkin? 7. Write down the heads of a lecture on English grammar to be addressed to a senior class. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, No. 1. 1. Into what periods may English literature be divided? Characterize each. 2. Give some account of Chaucer and the "Canterbury Tales." 3. Give an account of the "Faëry Queen." What other poems have been written in the same metre? 4. Sketch the plot of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" or the "Winter's Tale." 5. Which are the best of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets"? What is the character and the value of his principles of criticism? 6. What are the principal contributions of Scotch writers to literature? 7. Whom do you consider as the best of English prose writers, and what are the characteristics of his style? 8. Compare the "Rambler" with the " Spectator." Give the substance of any paper in the "Rambler." 9. Who were the authors of the following works? State briefly their subjects:-"Utopia," " Appeal from the New to the Old "Whigs," "Drapier's Letters," "Essay on Man." 10. Where do the following passages occur? What lines immediately precede or follow? (a) One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. (b) England, with all thy faults I love thee still. (d) And airy tongues that syllable men's names. (f) Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. No. 2. 1. Mention the best writers of English history before the end of the 17th century. 2. Give a short account of the life and writings of Hume, and compare his historical works with those of any other historian. 3. Sketch the plot of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," or "Hamlet." 4. Whom do you regard as the greatest of English humourists? State the grounds of your selection. 5. Sketch briefly the substance of any one of Bacon's essays. 6. Compare and contrast the poetry of Scott with that of Tennyson. 7. Give some account of the authors, or supposed authors, and objects of the following works:-" Absalom and Achitophel," "Icon Basilike," the "Battle of the Books," the "Letters of Junius," "Hudibras," "Lycidas," "Leviathan," "Utopia. ' 8. Give some account of any two English writers who wrote before the language had assumed its present form. 9. Contrast, in its general character, English literature from Dryden to Cowper, with the literature of the Elizabethan age. 10. Where do the following passages occur, and in what connexion ?— (a) The path of glory leads but to the grave. (b) A little more than kin and less than kind. (c) And fools rush in where angels fear to tread. (d) So shines a good deed in a naughty world. (e) Wielding at will that fierce democratie. Thou art not holy to belie me so ; I am not mad. (g) None but the brave deserve the fair. No. 3. Set to Candidates for the situation of Inspector of Schools (Ireland). 3 hours allowed. 1. Explain the following passages :— (a) And Cæsar's spirit, ranging for revenge (b) (c) (d) With Até by his side, come hot from hell, If I do prove her haggard, Ere the bat hath flown His cloistered flight: ere to black Hecate's summons Hath rung night's yawning peal. Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders. (e) His spear, to equal which the tallest pine (g) What made directors cheat in South-Sea year (h) And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels ? (i) What made (say Montaigne or more sage Charron) A perjured prince a leaden saint revere, A Godless regent tremble at a star? 2. Refer to passages in Bacon's essays that illustrate his private tastes and habits. 3. What is the general purport of Bacon's essay on "The true great 66 ness of kingdoms "? 4. How does Burke refer to Lord Chatham and his ministry in the "Speech on American Taxation"? 5. To what sources does Burke in his speech on conciliation with America ascribe the strong spirit of liberty displayed by the colonists ? 6. Quote or give the substance of Anthony's oration over the dead body of Cæsar. 7. Describe the scene in which Iago warns Othello against jealousy. 8. How are Adam and Eve described as first seen by Satan in the "Paradise Lost"? 9. How are the following lines introduced into the argument of the "Essay on Man"?— If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, 10. What illustrations does Pope give of the force of the " Ruling Passion"? MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. EUCLID. No. 1. 1. Bisect a given finite straight line. 2. If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, but the angle contained by the two sides of the one be greater than the angle contained by the two sides equal to them of the other, the base of that which has the greater angle shall be greater than the base of the other. 3. The opposite sides and angles of parallelograms are equal to one another. 4. If ABCD be a quadrilateral figure having the side AD parallel to BC and from the diagonals produced CE be cut off equal to CA and BF to BD, the line joining E and F shall be parallel to AD or BC. 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 of half the line bisected, is equal to the square of the straight line which is made up of the half and the part produced. any 6. In every acute-angled triangle the square of the side subtending of the angles is less than the squares of the sides containing that angle by twice the rectangle contained by either of these sides and the straight line intercepted between the perpendicular let fall upon it from the opposite angle and the angle aforesaid. 7. If a straight line be divided into any two parts the rectangle contained by the whole line and one of the parts together with the square of the other part is equal to the rectangle contained by the whole line and the latter part together with the square of the former part. 8. If any two points be taken in the circumference of a circle the straight line which joins them shall fall within the circle. 9. The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base. 10. If a straight line touch a circle and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn cutting the circle, the angles made by this line with the line touching the circle shall be equal to the angles in the alternate segments of the circle. 11. If a segment of a circle be described upon the base of any triangle so as to cut the sides or the sides produced, the triangle formed by joining the two points of section shall have its angles equal to those of the former triangle. 12. If the diameters of two circles be at right angles to one another and have a common extremity, the line which touches one circle at the second point of intersection of the circles shall pass through the centre of the other circle. |