SECTION III.

Write out the existing rules of grammar that forbid some of the usages employed in the following sentences: "Between two girls which hath the merriest eye." "'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth." 66 You may deny that you were not the cause." "He pretends to be that he is not.” "Is she as tall as me?"

"Consider who the king, your father, sends."
"I would not be thee."

"The maid is entered into Orleans."
'Plenty and peace breeds cowards.”

SECTION IV.

(Only one of these questions is to be answered.)

(1.) What do you understand by "parsing"? What points must be fully stated in parsing the principal verb of a sentence, a relative pronoun, an adverbial conjunction?

(2.) Show that more than one verb is required to complete the conjugations of the verbs to go, to be. Give some defective English verbs, and explain why "shall" and "will" do not take the suffix "s" in the third person singular.

(3.) What is meant by gender? Give some of the ways in which the genders are distinguished in English. Give examples from poetry which attribute gender to things without life.

SECTION V.

Give the force of the prefixes or suffixes in the words italicised in the following passages, and state in each case the source from which they are derived:

It is impossible from the circumstances of mankind that the thoughtless should be benevolent.

Careless men, seized with the newness of such objects, become thoughtful, and willingly contemplate the incessant changes of the earth's surface.

The rulers of a kingdom are not bound to communicate such matters, but may extract and select.

SECTION VI.

Write full notes of a lesson on one of the following

subjects:

(a) Irregular comparison of adjectives.

(b) The terminations of abstract nouns.
(c) Auxiliary verbs.

SECTION VII.

Write a letter as to a friend in a distant country descriptive of

(a) The severity of the late winter.

or (b) Some recent invention. or (c) Some public institution.

or (d) Your home enjoyments.

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

Draw a map of—

GEOGRAPHY.

SECTION I.

(a) the Western side of Great Britain, to include the basins of the principal rivers from the Clyde on the North to the Severn on the South.

Or (b) the Coast of Africa, South of the Equator. Or (c) Canada, showing the physical features only.

SECTION II.

1. Define the geographical terms employed in the following description, and give examples of each from

the continent described.

"The surface of Europe is diversified by mountains, plains, plateaux and valleys; it lies almost wholly within the North temperate zone; its coast is deeply penetrated by inland seas and numerous gulfs."

2. Write a short explanation of the following:The loss of a day in travelling round the globe eastwards; the length of a polar day; the equality of day and night at the Equinoxes; and the greatest height of the sun in

summer.

SECTION III.

Describe a coasting voyage from-

(a) Amsterdam to Bordeaux,

Or (b) Bordeaux to Genoa,

Or (c) Genoa to Constantinople,

noting the mouths of the rivers, the principal capes, and the historical incidents suggested by the journey.

SECTION IV.

Enumerate six of the most important of the British Colonies and give their seats of government and their native races.

Give also' a brief account of the colonization of Australia from its settlement to the present time.

SECTION V.

Name the chief rivers of Hindustan, the mountain ranges of Africa, and the principal commercial cities of North America.

HISTORY.

SECTION I

Arrange in chronological order and give the dates of as many as you can of the following:-The accessions of Canute, Henry VII., Anne; the battles of Blenheim, Poitiers, Bosworth; the discoveries of America, Australia, Cape of Good Hope; the deaths of Wallace, Charles I., General Wolfe; the peace of Utrecht, of Brétigni, and of Amiens.

SECTION II.

Write a brief account of one of each of the following groups:

(a) Canute, Edward the Confessor, the Black Prince.

(b) Wolsey, Strafford, Lord Bacon.

(c) Marlborough, Wellington, Nelson.

SECTION III.

1. What insurrections took place in the reign of Henry VII.? State the false claims put forth by the leaders, and their subsequent fates.

2. Give a brief account of the events that occurred in Great Britain between the years 1649 and 1660.

3. What constitutional changes marked the Revolution of 1688-9? Name some of the distinguished men of the reigns of William III. and Anne.

SECTION IV.

1. Give some account of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and of the punishments of the defeated rebels.

2. Enumerate, with dates, the chief events of the latter half of the 18th century, and some of the more distinguished persons who took part in them.

3. Give a brief description of the battle of Trafalgar or of Vittoria, and state the political results of the battle you have described.

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.

THREE hours allowed for this Paper with that on
MUSIC.

Those who are or have been Pupil Teachers are not to answer more than one question in any Section. Candidates who have not been Pupil Teachers may answer any seven questions they think fit, except in Section VII., from which only one subject should

be selected for notes of a lesson.

No Candidate is to answer more than seven questions.

SECTION I.

1. For what number of children were desks provided in your school? Describe the desks used, and state how much space was allowed for each child for writing. What lessons were given out of desks? or in a standing position? Why were they so given?

2. What movements of drill were required in your school for entering or leaving the room, and for changing class? What are the objects of school drill? Show that it has an influence upon the character of children and their behaviour out of school.

3. In what different shapes may classes be arranged for reading, arithmetic, and geography lessons?

State which shape you consider best for each purpose, and why you would employ that arrangement. What should be the position of the teacher in regard to his class?

(For Females only.)

4. Name the parts of a boy's shirt of simple pattern, the proportions required in cutting it out, and the various kinds of work required for each part.

SECTION II.

1. In the following sentence explain the peculiar difficulties presented by the words printed in italics in the early stages of reading:

He would take no pains to teach any boy, who could not at least write what boys of eight years old can write.

2. What especial care would you bestow upon the less advanced readers in your class, before, during, or after the reading lesson? How can home lessons be utilised for teaching reading?

3. What preparation is required in a reading lesson both for the individual words, and for the general sense of the passage? How may a reading lesson be divided to secure both the mechanical and intelligent mastering of a passage? State the proportions of time given to each division.

SECTION III.

1. How can mental addition and subtraction of money be used to illustrate the first steps in simple addition and subtraction? What other illustrations would you employ?