Section 4. 1. Give a short history of one of the following towns; Genoa, Hamburgh, Moscow, Bristol, Calais, Marseilles, Milan, Aleppo. 2. Sketch the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough. 3. When did Holland first rise into notice? Give an account of the successes of the Dutch under De Witt against the English. What was De Witt's ultimate fate? 4. When and how did the schism between the Popes of Rome and Avignon commence, how long did it continue, what were its chief events, and how was it terminated? ENGLISH HISTORY. 1. Name the kingdoms of the Saxon Heptarchy, and their respective founders. By whom were they consolidated? 2. Give the time and place of the Norman conquest, and the origin of the Normans. State William's and Harold's respective pretensions to the throne. 3. Give some account of the social and domestic habits of the Anglo-Saxons, especially as to their buildings, food, and dress. 4. How did knights of the shire, and the representatives of towns, become a part of the legislature; and by what steps did the House of Commons assume something like its present constitution and powers? Section 2. 1. Give an account of the conquest of Ireland. 2. What dominions did Henry II. possess in France, and under what sovereign were they lost? 3. What were the leading provisions of the Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and the Habeas Corpus Act? 4. Give a detailed history of the wars of Edward III. in France, with the dates of the battles. Section 3. 1. Who was the last of the Welsh native princes? Relate the circumstances in which the present title of "Prince of Wales” originated. 2. Name the wives of Henry VIII.; the manner of their several deaths; and what became of their respective children. 3. Who (very briefly) were Piers Gaveston-Lambert Simnel-Perkin Warbeck-Wat Tyler-Jack Cade-Titus Oates - Judge Jeffries- and Arthur Thistlewood. 4. State the nature of the dispute between the Roses,-with some brief account of the battle which ended the quarrel. Section 4. 1. Name the leading statesmen in England in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, and James I. 2. What were the names, parentage, and claims to the throne, of the Pretenders? 3. Give some account of the nature and issue of the Rye House Plot. 4. Give a brief sketch of the character of Cromwell. Section 5. 1. State the circumstances which led to American Independence. 2. Give an account of the South Sea Bubble. 3. Narrate the chief circumstances connected with the acquisition of our Indian territory. 4. Give the dates of the introduction of woollen cloth manufactures; of silkweaving; of printing; of tobacco; of steamboats; of railroads; and describe the dress of a noble and a peasant in the times of King John, of Queen Elizabeth, and of Queen Anne. GEOGRAPHY. 1. Define an isthmus, and mention the names of those known to you, and of the seas which they separate, and the tracts of land they unite 2. Describe the course of the river Rhine, and give the names of the principal cities on its banks. 3. Give some account of the countries which compose the Austrian empire. 4. What countries border on the Baltic Sea, what rivers flow into it,, having what seaports at their mouths, and what principal imports and exports ? By what races of men are these countries severally inhabited, holding what forms of religious belief, and how governed. Section 2. 1. Describe the course of a vessel sailing from the White to the Black Sea. 2. Where are the following places respectively situated? Cape Guardafui, Servia, Illyria, Teheran, Medina, Bombay, Colombo, Tripoli, Prince Edward's Island, Michigan, Ecuador, Bolivia. 3. Draw a map of Africa, and give some general account of that continent, and of the races of men who inhabit it. 4. Mention the names of the United States of America, and of their chief towns; describing their relative positions, and illustrating your description, if you can by a map. Section 3. 1. What are the principal divisions of Ireland, and what its principal island and seaport towns, and most important rivers, bays, and lakes? 2. Give a particular account of the geography of some one of the English counties, illustrating your description by a map. 3. Give some account of the mountain and river systems of England, and of its geological structure. 4. Enumerate the islands of the British Archipelago. What is the greatest length of Great Britain from north to south, and what from east to west? How many square miles does it contain, and what is its population? What races of men inhabit them? what languages are spoken in then, and where? what languages have united to form the national language, and what historical epochs, and under what circumstances? Section 4. 1. Contrast London and Jerusalem. 2. What principal countries compose the British empire, inhabited by what races of men, having what differences of colour, living under what varieties of climate, professing what different religions, giving themselves to what different forms of productive industry, and contributing in what different ways to our commercial prosperity ? Section 5. 1. Why are the western sea-boards of Continents warmer than their central regions and eastern sea-boards? Give examples of this fact. 2. Account for the formation of dew, and its deposition in greater abundance on some substances than others. What is meant by the dew-point? In what way does the observation of it show the hygrometrical state of the atmosphere? 3. Why do north or south-easterly currents of the air and the ocean prevail within the tropics, and north or south-westerly currents without them? Give examples of such currents. and explain their influence in equalizing the temperature of the earth's surface. Section 6. 1. Account for the formation of rain, and for its descent in greater abundance in mountainous than level countries, and in tropical than other regions. 2. By what property of water is the ocean made to give out its heat more rapidly than the land; and by what means and for what purpose is this process at a certain stage arrested? Why does the ice in arctic regions form first in creeks and bays, and in the shallower parts of the sea, near the coast? 3. Give some account of the most important changes which are now taking place, from natural causes, in the state of the earth's surface. METHOD.. Section 1. Give the heads of a lesson on the answer to this question in the Catechism : -"What desirest thou of God in this prayer?* Section 2. Write the syllabus of a lesson on the History of England under the Romans. Section 3. Having a school of 60 children, and being assisted by two pupil teachers, what division would you make of the school, and how distribute the principal subjects of instruction, and fix the times to be allotted to them? Specify particularly the part you would yourself take in the business of the school. Section 4. 1. Explain the meaning of induction and analysis as applied to teaching; give an example of each method of teaching, and mention subjects of instruction to which each is specially applicable. What is meant by the perceptive faculties? What period of life is specially characterized by the activity of these faculties and for what purposes? If you have been accustomed to be governed in the discharge of your duties as a teacher by the observation and the study of these faculties, state in what respects. Section 5. In what respects has the office of the schoolmaster a tendency to make him conceited, consequential, and overbearing; and what considerations will most effectually protect him from falling into this snare? ARITHMETIC. (In the solutions of those questions which are marked with an asterisk each step in the operation is to be proved.) *1. Multiply 2,579 by 853. *2. Divide 9,352,018 by 13. Section 1. 3. Extract the square root of 17,230,801. *4. Extract the cube root of 423,564,751. Section 2. 1. Multiply 127. 15s. 41d. by 18,016. 2. If 1 cwt. 2 qrs. 15 lbs. cost 67. 17s. 3d, what will 3 tons, 14 cwt. 1 qr. 9 lbs. cost at the same rate? 3. Find, by the rule of practice, the value of 8764 things at 10%. 17s. 6d. each. 4. A bankrupt's debts amounted to 4,2657., and his creditors received three several dividends of 3s. 21d., 2s. 44d., 4s. 24d. in the pound; what was the whole loss sustained by the creditors? Section 3. *1. If 9 things cost 11s., what will 17 cost?-N.B. Each step in the working of this sum is to be proved without the use of fractional arithmetic. *2. If 30 cwt. be carried 15 miles for 57. 8s. 9d., how far can 90 cwt. be carried for 291. *3. A labourer was engaged for 36 days on the condition that for every day he worked he should receive 2s. 6d., and that for every day he did not work he should forfeit 1s. 6d. ; at the end of the time he received 27. 18s.; how many days did he play? *4. If 21 horses and 217 sheep can be kept 10 days for 561. 8s. 4d., what sum will keep 9 horses and 60 sheep for 27 days, supposing that 3 horses eat as much as 50 sheep. Section 4. 3. Of what distance is 44 miles seven-tenths? 4. With a yard measure, which is one quarter of an inch too long, I measure a piece of cloth to be 60 yards, what is its true measure? 5. A person after paying away one third of his money, together with 10%., finds that he has remaining 157. more than its half: what money had he? 2. How many French metres, each 39.371 English inches in length, are there in 3 miles 5 fur. 110 yds. ? *4. Reduce of a guinea to the decimal of 21. and subtract 3 guineas from 4:09372. Section 6. *1. Find the interest of 1,8487. 16s., for 7 years 9 months, at 33 per cent. *2. What sum put to interest for 1 year at 5 per cent. will amount at the end of the year to 1007.; and what rate of interest arises from money invested in the 3 per cents. at 57? 3. What is the present value of an annuity of 1007. payable for 10 years, allowing 5 per cent. interest? *4. A, B, and C rent a field for 307.; A puts in 7 oxen for 3 months, B 9 oxen for 5 months, and C 4 oxen for 12 months; what should A pay? Section 7. 1. Resolve 30 and 42 into their prime factors, and find the greatest common measure and the least common multiple of 126 and 144. *2. Multiply 5 ft. 3 in by 4 ft. 9 in. by the rule of duodecimals; explain the operation, and interpret the result. *3. To what fraction of a penny is the difference between 237. and the circulating decimal 237. equivalent? *4. Express the numbers 1,000 and 250 in the scale of notation whose radix is 5, and multiply them together in that scale. Section 8. Construct a question in one of the following simple rules of arithmetic, so that the correctness of the answer may readily be seen; and prove fully the principle on which this construction depends. 1st. Addition. 2nd. Multiplication of more than one figure. ALGEBRA. Reduce one of the following expressions to its simplest form 1. A sum of 67. is to be divided among a certain number of men, and 31. among as many women; and it is found that if there were 5 more men and 6. less women, each woman would receive the same sum as a man. of each were there? How many 2. The labour of making different similar pairs of shoes varies as their lengths; and the quantities of leather necessary to make them vary as the squares of their lengths. Now it is found that the whole cost of a pair of shoes 8 inches long is 6s., and that the cost of a similar pair 10 inches long is 8s. 6d.; investigate a formula which will determine the cost of a pair of shoes similar to either of the above, but of any other length. 3. A number of gentlemen agree to build a church contributing equally to the cost, which is 5,000l. Whilst the church is in progress 10 of the number become bankrupts, and there are 10 others who refuse to contribute anything towards the deficiency in the funds thus created. This deficiency, being equally borne by the remainder, increases the contribution of each by 207. How many subscribers were there in the first instance? 4. The cost of printing and binding a copies of a book is Pl.; and it is calculated that one m of these copies will be sold annually. What is the present worth of the copyright, supposing that each book (deducting the expense of publishing and advertising,) is sold for Q., and that the interest of money is r per cent.? |