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to a simple quantity.

4. Divide 138. 14d. into six parts, each succeeding part to be 64d. more than each preceding.

5. The sum of £925 was so divided among A, B, C, and D that B's portion was of A's, C's was equal to of B's, and D's was half as much as B's and C's together; what did each receive?

6. [For MALES only.] Give rules for finding (a) the area of the surface of a sphere, and the surface of a solid ring; and (b) the solidity of a sphere and of a wedge.

7. [For MALES only.] Give Simpson's rule for finding the approximate areas of certain figures, and apply it to find the area of a figure of the following dimensions:-Ordinates 0, 1.25, 4, 6·75, 8, 6·25, 0 feet; common distance, 1 foot.

8. [For MALES only.] The base of a pyramid is a square, each side of which is 3 feet 6 inches, and the height of the pyramid is 3 feet 9 inches; find its solid contents.

6. [For FEMALES only.] Give rules for finding (a) the area of a triangle with three given sides, and of a circle; and (b) the solidity of a cylinder, and of a rectangular parallelopiped.

7. [For FEMALES only.] The area of a circle is equal to that of a rectangle which is 400 feet by 256. Find the circumference of the circle.

8. [For FEMALES only.] Find how many cubic yards of earth must be dug out to make a well 4 feet in diameter and 119 feet deep.

For Admission as Teacher of the Second Class. (Three hours allowed.) FEMALES.

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(c) Of two bodies one has a volume of 5 cubic inches, and the other cubic ft. The former weighs 15 ounces, and the latter 12-8 lbs. What is the ratio of the mass of the first to that of the second? What is the ratio of their densities?

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(b) Show how to obtain the resultant of two parallel forces acting (i.) in the same direction, and (ii.) in opposite directions; and (iii.) of a number of parallel forces acting on a body.

(c) What is meant by the centre of the parallel forces? 10 Find the total resultant, and the centre of the parallel forces of 3 lbs., 4 lbs., and 5 lbs., suspended from a rod 12 inches long in such a manner that 7 inches separate the weights 3 lbs. and 4 lbs., and 5 inches separate the weights 4 lbs. and 5 lbs.

4. A farmer gave for a horse a bill of £73, due in 1 month, and sold him at once for a bill of £87 at 4 months. Required the farmer's gain per cent., reckoning interest at 4 per cent.

5. A person invests £9,000 in the 3 per cents. at 72, and on their rising to 72 sells out, and puts the cash he receives at compound interest for 2 years at 4 per cent. He then invests it in 4 per cents. at 104. What does he gain in income?

ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION.

21st December-9.30 to 12.30.

For Admission as Pupil-Teacher of the First Class. (One hour and a-half allowed.)

Maximum Marks.

40 1. Analyse fully the following simple sentences:(i.) Feast thy greedy eyes with gold

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Long kept for sorest need.

(ii.) Weary grown of the world and its ways,
He wished to pass the rest of his days
In a private life and a calm retreat.
(iii.) A handful of red sand, from the hot clime
Of Arab deserts brought,

Within this glass becomes the spy of Time.

2. Parse the italicised words in the preceding sentences. (The rules of syntax need not be quoted.)

3. Write in full the rules of syntax referring to the Nominative Absolute, the Nominative of Address, and the Case in Apposition; and give one example of each.

4. Write (a) eight nouns used in the plural only; (b) the plural of-Axis, vertex, geranium, genus, fife, motto, automaton, radius; (c) the masculine corresponding to-Hind, niece, vixen, ewe, mistress, nun, witch, dam.

5. State the voice and tense of each of the following compound verbs:-Will have written, had written, was writing, was written, had been writing.

For Admission as Pupil-Teacher of the Second Class. (One hour and a-half allowed.)

1. Divide the following passages into clauses, and state fully the nature and relation of each, but do not give the detailed analysis:

(i.) Then her people softly treading,
Bore to earth her body, drest

(ii.)

In the dress that she was wed in, That her spirit might have rest.

These naked shoots,

Barren as lances, among which the wind
Makes wintry music, sighing as it goes,
Shall put their graceful foliage on again.

2. Parse the italicised words in the foregoing passages. (The rules of syntax need not be quoted.)

3. Name three words which may be used as either prepositions or conjunctions; and make sentences to show their use in both ways.

4. Make sentences using become and grow (i.) as verbs of incomplete predication, (ii.) as transitive verbs.

5. (a) Distinguish the prefix, and state its force inAnonymous, analogy, surface, system, bedim.

(b) By the addition of affixes, form two nouns from
each of the words-Refer, lord, and steal. Give
in each case the meaning of the affix, and of the
word formed.

6. Amend, where necessary, the following:
(i.) Nobody can sing like she does.

(ii.) He is very pleased.

(iii.) You are different to your brother. (iv.) When ringworm is discovered on the person of a child, it should be at once sent home. (v.) Walking one day across the park, half a dozen swans flew across the sky.

For Admission as Pupil-Teacher of the Third Class. (One hour and a-half allowed.)

1. Divide the following passages into clauses, and state fully the nature and relation of each, but do not give the detailed analysis:

(i.) 'Twere well that we should go, ere it gets too late.
(ii.)
The rural lass

Whom once her virgin modesty and grace,
Her artless manners, and her neat attire,

So dignified, that she was hardly less
Than the fair shepherdess of old romance,

Is seen no more.

Maximum Marks 4. Set down in tabular form the root, and the meaning 25 of the root, of-Fiction, perfidy, assail, responsible, oriental, limited, volatile, extricate, moralize, tentative.

5. Give the meaning of the words in italics in the 10 following sentences:-(i.) Preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth. (ii.) Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness. (iii.) Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

6. State briefly six rules by which you should be guided 25 in the choice of words for ordinary prose composition.

For Admission as Pupil-Teacher of the Fourth Class. (One hour and a-half allowed.)

1. Divide the following passages into clauses, and state 35 fully the nature and relation of each, but do not give the detailed analysis:

(i.) 'Twere better to go willingly than be forced to go.
(ii.) Taken as I was by surprise, I must own that
astonishment and fear so far mastered all my
faculties that, without daring to give the
walked rapidly
picture a second glance,
back into the garden.

2. Parse the italicised words in the foregoing passages. 40 (The rules of syntax need not be quoted.)

3. Name three conjunctions which usually precede verbs 10 in the Subjunctive Mood, and make sentences in which each of them shall precede a verb in the Indicative Mood.

4. Set down in tabular form the root, and the meaning 25 of the root, of Photograph, prototype, isothermal, democracy, apoplexy, pharmacy.

5. Amend, where necessary, the following:

(i.) I was so deaf that I could neither hear clock
nor watch.

(ii.) Send the next boy talking to the master's desk.
(iii.) This is the house he lives in.

(iv.) Raw cows' milk is better for children than

boiled.

(v.) Homer was not only the maker of a nation but

of a language.

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5. State the rule for forming the plural of nouns ending in f or fe, and mention four words which constitute exceptions to the rule.

6. What parts of the principal verb may be joined to 12 the auxiliary verbs be, have, and will respectively, to form compound verbs? Give examples.

7. Write (a) the possessive plural of-Hero, mouse, gipsy, 12 thou, who, ox, goose; and (b) the feminine word corresponding to-Bachelor, gentleman, wizard, earl, stag.

8. Make sentences using less, long, and fast for as many 15 different parts of speech as possible, naming the part of speech in each case.

9. Amend, where necessary, the following sentences, 15 stating clearly the reasons for any alterations you may make:(i.) He invited my brother and I to tea.

(ii.) You are better off than us.

(iii.) I took it to be him.

(iv.) Two men would do as much or more than half a dozen boys.

(v.) She don't mean to work to-day.

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10. Explain as to a Third Class the subject-matter of the following verse from the Century Reader III., p. 94 :

Through billows of western prairies

And dazzle of arctic plains,
Through perfume of summer roses

And mists of the sweet spring rains;
Abreast of the echoing thunder,
With the quiver of lightning near,
We'd ride in the van of the tempest,
"If wishes were horses," dear.

For Admission as Teacher of the Third Class. (Three hours allowed.)

1. Divide the following passage into clauses, and state the nature and relation of each; but do not give the detailed analysis

Hypocrisy, detest her as we may,

(And no man's hatred ever wronged her yet)
May claim this merit still-that she admits
The worth of what she mimics with such care,
And thus gives Virtue indirect applause;
But she has burned her mask, not needed here,
Where Vice has such allowance, that her shifts
And specious semblances have lost their use.

2. Express in your own words the sense of the preceding passage.

3. Show in tabular form the root, and the meaning of the root, of any ten words in the foregoing passage.

pen.

4. Parse (not quoting the rules of syntax) the italicised words (a) in the foregoing passage, (b) in the following sentences-I saw no one else. That quill will make a good He is old enough to know better. It is worth a shilling. 5. Give a list of conjunctions which generally precede the Subjunctive Mood; make three sentences (employing different verbs in each) in which the Subjunctive Mood is not preceded by such conjunctions; and make three sentences, in which these conjunctions precede the Indicative Mood.

9 6. Place each of the following phrases in a sentence of your own construction, so as to illustrate the way in which it may be properly used:- "Better than he," "Better than him,' "As good as I," "As good as me,' 66 Than whom,'

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7. (a) Name and describe any two kinds of Stanza. (b) Scan and name the following verses :

(i.) Be not like dumb driven cattle.

(ii.) They not an arrow drew but was a clothyard long.

(iii.) Our doctor had called in another, I never had seen him before.

(iv.) Then they sat down and talked of the birds and the beautiful Spring-time.

8. (a) Give four rules for preserving the unity of a

sentence.

(b) Distinguish between a Periodic Sentence and a
Loose Sentence, and give one example of each.
(c) Define and exemplify Metaphor and Pleonasm.

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O brother when I told him what had chanced
My sister's vision and the rest his face
Darken'd as I have seen it more than once
When some brave deed seemed to be done in vain
Darken and Woe is ine my knights he cried
Had I been here ye had not sworn the vow.

10. Amend, where necessary, the following sentences :-
(i.) I wrote you on Thursday last.
(ii.) Go back from whence you came.
(iii.) Partly alarmed by the threats of the one,
and partly by the promises of the other,
he consented.

(iv.) Two or even one man could do as much or more than six boys.

For Admission as Teacher of the Second Class. (Three hours allowed.)

1. Paraphrase the following passage, and state by whom and under what circumstances it was uttered :

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
You urged me as a judge; but I had rather
You would have bid me argue like a father.
O, had it been a stranger, not my child,

To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:
A partial slander sought I to avoid,
And in the sentence my own life destroy'd.
Alas, I look'd when some of you should say,
I was too strict to make mine own away;
But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue
Against my will to do myself this wrong.

5. Give the meaning of the italicised words in-"Look 10 on my wrongs with an indifferent eye"; "A deep well that owes two buckets"; "They bring forward mantelets"; "On pain of being held faithless and nidering"; "Ye may retain as borrows, my two priests."

6. Write brief explanatory notes on--"Theow and Esne 24 art thou no longer"; "the Ranger of the forest that cuts the foreclaws off our dogs"; "double-fatal yew"; "Jack o' the clock"; "Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower"; " of grace."