3. State with reasons the effects and mention the facts useful to the plant grower that may be learned from the following experiments:

(a) The leaves are kept pinched off a full grown geranium plant. (b) A three-inch wheat plant is transplanted into a glass tumbler and the earth is kept moist.

water.

(c) Seeds are sown on a piece of mosquito netting placed under

(d) Seed wheat of different varieties are sown together.

(e) Moist balls of equal size of (i) clay, (ii) sand, (iii) humus, are placed in a warm oven.

4. Answer either (i) or (ii):

(i) Compare: (a) the spring anemone with the rose as regards the method of seed distribution; (b) the sunflower with the everlasting pea as regards the position of their flowers. Draw any two of these plants.

(ii) Give an account of the nest, the eggs, the young, the habits and the usefulness of any one of our wild birds. Draw the nest, the foot and the head of the bird selected.

5. Describe the appearance of either a wheat or a pea plant from the beginning of germination till its stage of independence. Show what becomes of the different parts first produced.

6. State somewhat fully the purposes of drainage and tillage.

7. (a) Show the advantage of good wheat seed in (i) resisting disease, (ii) producing heavy crops.

crop?

(b) To what extent can the farmer prevent smut in his wheat

8. Draw (i) the leaf, (ii) the seed capsule of (a) the stinkweed, (b) the hedge-mustard.

History.

Time-Two hours.

1. Give an account of the life of Champlain.

2. (a) What were the chief difficulties that had to be overcome by the British in governing the French in Canada after the conquest.

(b) Show how in the first thirty years these influenced the government of the country.

3. Outline the life and work of either Sir John A. Macdonald or Lord Selkirk.

4. Describe how under our system of government (a) Canada is related to Great Britain, (b) Laws are passed, (c) Saskatchewan is represented in the Dominion and in the Provincial Parliaments.

5. (a) Describe the feudal system as found in England at the time of William the Conqueror.

(b) Give the reasons for its disappearance.

6. What advance did the Provisions of Oxford make on the Magna Charta?

7. What noteworthy work did each of the following do: William III, Cromwell, Simon de Montfort, Horatio Nelson?

Time-One and one-half hours.

Drawing.

NOTE-All work must be done on drawing paper; not more than one answer may be placed on a sheet; and the drawings must be as large as the paper will allow.

1. Draw with instruments either (a) a geometrical decorative design or (b) the two patterns for a sliding match box.

2. Draw, from memory, a sketch of one of the following groups:
(a) Half a lemon, a glass tumbler and a conical glass lemon-

squeezer.

(b) A peck measure and some turnips or potatoes.

(c) A large book and a lamp.

3. Arrange the notes and illustrations of one of the following lessons so that the page will be an example of neat arrangement and proper spacing:

(a) Different forms of roots.

(b) North-West rising of 1885.

(c) Railways of Canada.

4. Draw, from memory, two different views of an open umbrella.

5. Illustrate the following:

(a) But the wind had pressed on, and had met in a lane,

With a school boy who panted and struggled in vain;

For it tossed him and twirled him, then passed; and he stood
With his hat in a pool and his shoe in the mud.

(a) What purposes are served by the wedding guest?

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(b) Describe in your own words the feelings of the wedding guest as here expressed.

(c) Explain the italicised words.

(d) Briefly give your interpretation of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner showing the significance of (i) killing the Albatross, (ii) spectral ship, (iii) Hermit.

(e) Describe from the poem (i) a polar picture, (ii) a tropical picture and show what each is made to contribute to the selection.

2. (a) What impressions are given of the different characters in the opening stanzas of the poem Dora?

(b) How are these impressions modified towards the close of the poem?

(c) Show the part the child plays in the poem.

3. So saying, he took the boy that cried aloud

And struggled hard. The wreath of flowers fell
At Dora's feet. She bow'd upon her hands,
And the boy's cry came to her from the field,
More and more distant. She bow'd down her head,
Remembering the day when first she came,

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And all the things that had been. She bow'd down
And wept in secret; and the reapers reap'd,
And the sun fell, and all the land was dark.

(a) What do we learn of Dora from these lines?

(b) Indicate the nature of the sentences and their effect.

(c) How does the author impress Dora's feelings upon the reader?

(d) What is the force of the reapers reaped

4.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,

But He beholds the light, and whence it flows
He sees in it his joy;

The Youth, who daily from the east

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Must travel, still is Nature's Priest,
And by the vision splendid

Is on his way attended:

At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.

(a) Briefly indicate the belief here suggested.

dark?

(b) Account for the references in relation to Boy, Youth, Man. (c) Discuss the (i) punctuation, (ii) metre of the stanza.

(d) Show the appropriateness of the italicised words and phrases.

5.

It may be glorious to write

Thoughts that shall glad the two or three

High Souls, like those far stars that come in sight
Once in a century;-

But better far its is to speak

One simple word, which now and then

Shall waken their free nature in the weak
And friendless sons of men;

To write some earnest verse or line,

Which, seeking not the praise of art,

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Shall make a clearer faith and manhood shine

In the untutored heart.

(a) From this passage what would you consider the author's estimate of poetry? Criticise it.

(b) Why should Burns be chosen as the subject for the poem? Name, giving reasons, other poets that might have been appropriately chosen.

(c) What is the reference in High Souls? Mention some of the two or three high souls, line 3.

(d) Explain the figure,-11. 3 and 4.

6. Give in your own words the pictures suggested in The Solitary Reaper.

7. Quote about fifteen lines from Michael or Ulysses.

8. (a) Outline the main plot in Ivanhoe.

(b) Show how the author combines variety of character and of scene to give unity and progression to the story.

9. What light does a careful study of this novel shed upon the spirit of the history of the times?

10. What is the purpose of each of the following incidents in the

story?

(a) The tournament of Ashby-de-la-Zouche.

(b) The appearance of Athelstane at the funeral ceremonies at Coningsburgh.

(c) The song of Ulrica.

11. Give a character sketch of Gurth, Locksley or The Templar.

Time-Three hours.

Arithmetic.

1. (a) Which of the following operations can be performed? Name the quotient and the remainder in each possible case.

(b) Criticise the following solution of the problem, "Bring 16 pecks to bushels." 16 pecks 4 pecks

4 bushels.

2. (a) Prove inductively or deductively that any number when divided by 4 leaves the same remainder as its last two digits when divided by 4.

(b) A person buys a lot of land at $120 an acre. By selling a portion in allotments he makes 90% on all he sells. After reserving 20 acres he finds he has gained on the remainder $840 more than the entire lot cost him. How many acres did he buy?