III. Geography and Statistics of Denmark. 1. Draw a map of Denmark and the adjoining islands, and the entrance to the Baltic. 2. Write a geographical description of Denmark, mentioning its situation, extent, population, physical features, and its principal mineral and vegetable products. 3. Give some account of the state of agriculture, and of the agricultural labourers, in Denmark. 4. Of what do the exports of Denmark principally consist? What was their annual value (approximately) (1) in 1836, (2) in 1847? 5. Sketch the history of Denmark during the present century. 6. Who is the present King of Denmark, and when did his reign begin? 7. Describe the general constitution of the supreme Government, and state the effect of the constitutional law passed in 1849. 8. What is the amount of the public debt and of the annual revenue? What is the value in English money of a million of rixdollars? How is the land tax charged? 9. Explain fully the following terms:-amter, stifter, folksthing, amtman, tons of hardcorn, Landsthing. IV. Geography and Statistics of the United States. 1. On the accomyanying map of North America indicate the principal mountain ranges, rivers and lakes, and the position of any ten large towns. 2. How do the regions into which America is divided by its mountain ranges differ in soil and vegetation? Where are the principal coal beds, and where are other minerals found? In what states are sugar, cotton, tobacco, wheat, rice, mainly produced? 3. Roughly estimate the population and its rate of increase. What are the causes of the rapidity of this rate? What is the proportion of slaves to whites in the slave states? What Indian tribes still exist, and in what numbers? 4. What are the chief powers of Congress? What are the numbers and the qualifications of the senators, and the representatives? What are the powers of the President, and how is he elected? 5. What are the main divisions of the army, and the main quarters of each. 6. What provisions are made for religion and education ? 7. What are the principal fishing grounds of the Americans? From what ports do the fishing vessels start? 8. Enumerate the United States of America: distinguishing (1) the thirteen original states, (2) those in which slavery is prohibited. HISTORY. The British Empire. In all cases dates should be given. 1. When did the Union take place between England and Scotland? What were its terms? What benefits has each country derived from it? 2. Mention the most distinguished characters who lived in the reign of Elizabeth, and write a short account of any two of them. 3. Give an account of Wat Tyler's Rebellion; of the Gunpowder Plot; of the death of Charles I.; the South Sea Scheme. 4. Give an account of the Star Chamber; the Constitutions of Clarendon ; the Petition of Right; the Habeas Corpus Act. 5. Mention the most remarkable names in the history of British India, and give an account of any two of them. 6. How did Gibraltar and Malta come into the hands of the English? The Boyne, Copenhagen, Navarino, Mortimer's Cross, Vimeiro, Describe as minutely as you can the circumstances of any three of them. II. English History. In all cases dates should be given. 1. What where the chief causes which led Henry V. to invade France? Sketch briefly the events of the war which followed, the terms of the treaty which concluded it, and the results to England. 2 What do you know of Cranmer, Robert Bruce, Wilkes, John of Gaunt, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Nelson? 3. What part did Henry VIII. take in the Reformation, and by what motives was he apparently actuated? 4. Mention who were the parties engaged in the following battles, and which was victorious, and describe minutely the circumstances of any three of them :-Poictiers, Corunna, Edgehill, Navarino, Prestonpans, Barnet, Sedgemoor. 5. Enumerate the most distinguished men who lived in the time either of Charles I. or of Queen Anne: and write a short life of any two of them. 6. Under what circumstances, and by what right, did the following monarchs come to the throne of England:-Alfred, William the Conqueror, Lady Jane Grey, William III. 7. Narrate the circumstances under which the Saxons settled in England. 8. How did England acquire Malta, Gibraltar, Bombay, Heligoland? III. In all cases dates should be given. (Time allowed 2 hours.) 1. Sketch the character of Henry II., Henry VII., Queen Elizabeth, George I., Sir T. More, John Hampden, Algernon Sidney, the Marquis of Montrose. 2. State distinctly the claims asserted by Edward IV. and his rivals respectively, to the throne of England. 3. Write an account of the principal events in the reign of either Richard III. or Queen Mary. 4. In whose reign did the following insurrections take place? What were the objects of the insurgents, and what success did they meet with? Wyatt's, Jack Cade's, Wat Tyler's, The Rye House Plot. 5. Write a brief history of the Popish Plot in 1678. 6. In whose reign did the following eminent persons flourish, and for what were they famous respectively:-Guy Earl of Warwick, Cardinal Pole, Bishop Latimer, George Villiers Duke of Buckingam, Piers Gavaston, Lady Arabella Stuart, Dr. Sacheverell. 7. Who were the parties engaged in the following battles, and which was victorious :-Aboukir, La Hogue, Poictiers, Malplaque, Vittoria, Bunker's Hill, Shrewsbury? Describe minutely the circumstances of any one of them. 8. What is the nature of the following ordinances, when were they passed, and by whom: The Constitutions of Clarendon, the Bill of Rights, the Act of Settlement, the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act? IV. OUTLINES OF HISTORY. Specimen Papers In all cases dates should be given. 1. Who were the contending parties in the following battles:-Marathon, Cannæ, Herda, Cranicus, Charonea, Pavia, Vittoria, Marengo, Borodino, Megiddo? Describe minutely the circumstances and results of any three of them. 2. Mention any famous person or events connected with Alexandria, Troyes, Campo Formio, St. Jean d'Acre, Seringapatam, Toulon, Quebec, Elba, Issus. 3. Sketch briefly the lives and characters of Pericles, Scipio Africanus the elder, Philip of Macedon, the Black Prince, Gustavus Adolphus. 4. What claims had William I., Stephen, James I., George I., to the English throne? Who were their immediate predecessors? What European Sovereigns were contemporary with any of them? 5. Mention the most important events that occurred, and the most remarkable persons who flourished, either between 1500 or 1550, or between 1700 and 1750 A.D. 6. Who were the parties and who the most remarkable individuals engaged in the following wars, what were their causes and results, and what were the most important actions fought in them? The Peloponnesian War, the second Punic War, the Peninsular 7. Give some account of the establishment and extension of the Turkish power in Europe. V. In all cases dates should be given. 1. Sketch briefly the history of the Peloponnesian War; mentioning the states concerned in it on each side; its origin; the principal events that occurred in it; the chief men who took part in it; its results. 2. Who were the contending parties in the following battles, and what were their results: Marathon, Wagram, Naseby, Culloden, Zama, Granicus, Marengo, Describe minutely the circumstances of any three of them. 3. Trace briefly the causes of the rise and fall of the power (1) of Venice, (2) of Spain. At what period was each at its greatest height of prosperity? In what condition is each at present? 4. Draw a parallel between the war with Russia and any other war in ancient or modern history. 5. Give a brief account of the life and character of any three of the Popes. 6. Sketch briefly the causes of the great rebellion in England. 7. Sketch briefly the life and character of any three of the following persons:-Vespasian, Mary Queen of Scots, Alcibiades, Francis I. of France, Frederic the Great, Henry VIII. 8. Name the English sovereigns of the House of Plantagenet. Whom do you consider (1) the best (2) the worst of them? Give reasons for your opinion. VL MODERN HISTORY. Specimen Papers. (Time, 3 hours.) 1. Enumerate the chief provisions of Magna Charta. 2. Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart, Guelph. In what way did members of each of these families first rise to the English throne? 3. Give a character of Henry the Fifth of England before and after his accession to the throne, and a sketch of his campaigns and conquests in France. 4. Write a short life of Oliver Cromwell, and give some account of the relations between his Government and the other European Powers. 5. Write short lives of Louis the Eleventh of France, and of Charles the Rash of Burgundy. Show how the character and policy of the one was likely to strengthen, and of the other to weaken, his hereditary power, and state if you can the substance of the remarkable judgment passed on the character of Louis by Philip de Commines. 6. Write a short description of the life and manners in England in the time of Henry the Eighth or Queen Ann. 7. Explain the allusions in the following passages :— 66 (a)" There was a Bishop of Winchester in King Henry the Sixth's days. This bishop was a great man born, and did bear such a stroke "that he was able to shoulder the Lord Protector. Well! it chanced “that the Lord Protector and he fell out, and the bishop would bear "nothing at all with him, but played me the satrapa; so that the "Regent of France was fain to be sent for from beyond the seas to "set them at one, and go between them."—Latimer's Sermons. (b) “ While England was agitated, first by the dread of an invasion, "and then by joy at the deliverance wrought for her by the valour of “her seamen, important events were taking place on the Continent. "On the sixth of March William had arrived at the Hague and had "proceeded to make his arrangements for the approaching campaign. "The prospect which lay before him was gloomy. The coalition of "which he was the author and the chief had during some months "been in constant danger of dissolution.”—Macaulay. 8. Give a sketch of the Thirty Years' War, mentioning the chief leaders on either sides, and their fate. 9. Compare France under Louis the Fourteenth with England under Charles the Second and James the Second. 10. From what great Russian family did Peter the Great spring? At what period in Russian History was the first of that family raised to the throne? 11. "From Macedonia's madman to the Swede ": Illustrate this line by describing the career of Charles the Twelfth. |