Indicate under the proper headings below which authors are writers of prose or of poetry and which are English or American. 5. Whitma2. 6. Boswell.. 7. Burns. 8. Emerson__ 9. Chaucer. 10. Thoreau_. 11. Wells. 12. Sidney. 13. Whittier_. 14. Eliot. 17. Fielding. 25. Browning.. 26. Hawthorne Select an American author of note and in a short composition of not less than 250 words tell what was his special contribution to American literature. MARCH, 1930 PART I.-English Grammar and Composition. (Weight, 100) 119. Among the following words some are misspelled. Write correctly the misspelled words in the blank spaces. 212. Punctuate and capitalize the following: (k) charlatan. (a) he was black eyed dark complexioned and altogether very handsome (c) dickens novels were influential in bringing about social reform in 318, (a) Give at least 2 synonyms for each of these words: (d) In the following sentences underline the word giving the correct meaning: unison. (2) The earth was (charred-burned-parched-cremated) and all growing things were (scorched-singed-seared-cauterized) by the intense summer heat. 0. 15. Check below those sentences which state the truth in regard to the following sentence: "An editor of a large metropolitan daily, whom I have known for years and in whose honesty I have the greatest confidence, told me not a week ago that so far as his paper is concerned the news is absolutely uncolored by private interests." (j) "Absolutely ' is an adverb_ (k) "Absolutely" is an adjective--. 66 (1) That" is a demonstrative pronoun. 515. Improve the coherence of the following sentences: (a) It used to be thought that people well fed were people contented and vice versa hungry folk rebelled, and now, when the danger of revolution rests on other foundations, there is no longer any guarantee of peace in a full dinner pail. (b) The steamer cut through the schooner like a knife, rushing ahead at full steam. (c) I have three pieces of bunting, red, white, and blue. (a) It is the three men who love the beautiful girl who gives her name to the novel who really matter. (e) First stir in the flour and then you should add the butter and salt. 60. Write an expository paragraph of about 100 words on any topic of special interest to you. No. PART II.-English Composition and English Literature. Weight, 100 119. Indicate under the proper headings below which authors are English and which are American: 20. In the spaces before the column at the right place the number of the author who corresponds from the list in the column at the left. 31. In the following sentences underline the word or words making the correct answer: (a) The setting of The Cotter's Saturday Night is in-England, Maine, California, Scotland, Switzerland. (b) John Silver is a character in The Deserted Village, Rime of the Ancient (c) "Lay on, Macduff; and damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough!'" (f) The name of Addison is associated as coauthor with-Drake, Spenser, No. 412. Indicate under the proper headings below which of the following plays of Shakespea are comedies, histories, or tragedies: Example: Comedy Henry V------ 510. In one sentence for each name, identify any 10 of the following names: 6. In a composition of about four or five paragraphs discuss the life and works of one of the following authors: Byron, Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Stevenson, Dickers Thackeray, Carlyle. No. MARCH, 1931 PART I.-English Grammar and Composition 215. Punctuate and capitalize correctly the following sentences: (a) at the foot of the precipice beat a wild sea tossing and flecked with fo and out of the flying spray rose sharp splinters of granite standing bik spearheads about the base of the solid rock (b) he was courteous not cringing to superiors affable not familiar to equals and kind but not condescending or supercilious to inferiors (c) do you remember hamlets comment on polonius words words words be asked me 315. Correct all grammatical errors which appear in the following sentences: (a) The chairman who they elected has resigned. (b) If I had known that you had been going, I would have sent word to mṛ mother. (c) A large number of the student body are going home for Thanksgiving. (e) Everybody there objected and declared they thought it barbarous. 415. Improve the coherence of the following sentences: (a) A fountain pen, unless you keep other people from using it, you will sond find it is ruined. I told him when the time came I would do it. When you have mastered the operation of shifting gears, and after a litt's practice, you will be a good driver. 520. "The wicked worketh a deceitful work; but to him that soweth righteousness shal be a sure reward." Check the statements below which are true in regard to the sentence quoted above. (a) This is a complex sentence--- (b) This is a compound sentence- (c) "Wicked" is an adjective--- (d) "Wicked" is the subject of a clause. 66 (e) Work" is a direct object--- (f) 66 66 Worketh" is the subject of a clause- is an adverbial phrase-- No. 6. Develop any one of the following topic sentences into an expository paragraph of about 150 words: No. (a) The good, it is said, die young. (b) Country life abounds in healthful pleasures. (c) Reason unaided will not always lead a man to correct his errors. (d) Railroads and telegraphs make the world smaller. MARCH, 1931 PART II.-English Composition and Literature 110. Indicate under the proper headings below which authors are English and which American: 220 In the space before each work in the column at the right, place the number of the author given in the column at the left. Lays of Ancient Rome. Christabel. Abou Ben Adhem. Rabbi Ben Ezra. The Gold Bug. Soldiers Three. 310. In the following sentences underline the word or words making the correct answer: (a)" Piers Plowman " was written by-Gower, Gray, Wyatt, Lyly, Langland, Chaucer, Wyclif. (b) Thackery wrote-The Vanity of Human Wishes, Middlemarch, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Vanity Fair, Roderick Random. (c) "A little learning is a dangerous thing' is a quotation from-Dryden, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Pope, Keats. (d) The earliest of these writers was-Spenser, Southey, Wordsworth, Collins, Burns, Cowper. (e) Silas Marner is a character in a novel by Stevenson, Defoe, Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy. 41. In the space before each play in the column at the right, place the number of the character who figures in that play. 510. In one sentence for each name, identify any ten of the following names: (a) Henry Esmond. (b) Samuel Clemens (k) Bret Harte. (1) Ebenezer Scrooge. 60. In a composition of about four or five paragraphs discuss the life and works of one of the following authors: Burns, Wordsworth, Byron, Ruskin, Tennyson, Macaulay, Browning, Hardy, Carlyle. APPENDIX C ADDITIONAL CAUSES FOR PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATION. (SEE PAR. 43) a. In general: (1) Any deformity which is repulsive or which prevents the price functioning of any part to a degree interfering with militar efficiency. (2) Obesity when so marked as to interfere with marching or military duties. (3) A height of more than 78 inches. (4) Deficient muscular development. (5) Deficient nutrition. (6) Evidences of physical characteristics of congenital asthenia. T physical characteristics of congenital asthenia are slender bo a weak ill-developed thorax, nephroptosis, gastroptosis, cons pation, the "drop" heart, with its peculiar attenuation and welk and easily fatigued musculature. (7) All acute communicable diseases. (8) All diseases and conditions which are not easily remediable that tend physically to incapacitate the individual, such as(a) Chronic malaria and malarial cachexia, b. The skin: (b) Severe uncinariasis. (c) Tuberculosis, of whatever degree and whether genet or localized. (d) Leprosy and actinomycosis. (e) Pellagra and beriberi. (f) Recurrent attacks of rheumatic fever, chronic articul rheumatism, and chronic arthritis. (g) Cellulitis and osteomyelitis. (h) Malignant disease of all kinds in any location. (i) Hemophilia and purpura. (j) Leukemia of all types. (k) Pernicious anemia. (1) Splenic anemia. (m) Filariasis and trypanosomiasis. (n) Diabetes mellitus or insipidus. (0) Acromegaly, gigantism, myxoedema, cretinism. Adi son's disease, and other endocrine diseases. (p) Chronic metallic poisoning. (1) Eczema of long standing or which is rebellious to treatment. (3) Actinomycosis, dermatitis herpetiformis, or mycosis fungoides. (5) Acne upon face or neck which is so pronounced as to amount positive deformity. (6) Elephantiasis. (7) Pediculosis or scabies. (8) Carbuncle. (9) Ulcerations of the skin not amenable to treatment, or those of long standing, or of considerable extent, or of syphilitic or malignan origin. (10) Extensive, deep, or adherent scars that interfere with muscul movements or with the wearing of military equipment, or that show a tendency to break down and ulcerate. (11) Nævi and other erectile tumors, if extensive, disfiguring, or exposi to constant pressure. (12) Obscene, offensive, or indecent tattooing on portions of the ba subject to exposure. |