Appendix. 6. Explain fully, as you would to a class, the principle on which Section III., the earth's surface is divided into climates. 1. Examination Questions. Male 7. Enumerate the foreign possessions of Holland and Portugal. 8. Describe the position, and say all you know of the following towns:-Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Buffalo. 9. Enumerate the primary and secondary planets. Explain, as and Female Teachers you would to a class, why the planets appear to wander through A' Papers. Old Programme. the heavens. 10. Compare the Chinese and Japanese Empires under the following heads:-(a) government, (b) natural features and products, (c) industries. Male Teachers. ARITHMETIC.-100 Marks. Two hours allowed for this paper. N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, twenty marks being assigned to each. Brief explanatory notes of your work should be given. Mr. DEWAR, Head Inspector. Mr. D. P. FITZGERALD, District Inspector. 1. Explain clearly how you would teach a class to find by mental calculation: : (a.) The price of 750 articles at 18. 4d. each. (b.) The cost of 13 cwt. 3 qrs. 14 lbs. at 2s. 6d. per stone. 2. A piece of work could be done by A alone in 6 hours, by B alone in 5 hours, and by C alone in 4 hours. They all begin it together, but A alone continues to work until it is finished, B leaving off 2 hours 10 minutes, and C 11⁄2 hours before its completion by A. In what time is the work accomplished? 3. Arrange in order of magnitude √2, 3, 5, and 6. Prove the correctness of your answer. 4. If the number of births and deaths each year be respectively th and th of the population of a village at the beginning of the year, in how many years will its population be doubled ? Given log 23010300; log 3 = 4771213; log 181 = 2.257679. 5. In a mile cycle race A beats B by 80 yards and beats C by 7 seconds, B beating C by 23 seconds. In what time can A ride a mile 6. If five men do 6006 of a piece of work in 2·12 hours, how long will six boys take to finish it, it being known that three men and seven boys have done a similar piece of work in 3 hours ? 7. Give a rule for determining by inspection the cube root of Appendix. every perfect cube less than a million. Illustrate the rule by an section III example. 8. Explain clearly, as for a class, the process of dividing one Examivulgar fraction by another; and prove the rule employed. nation Questions. 9. Show clearly that the true discount on any sum is a mean proportional between the true present worth of the same sum and Male the banker's gain. Teachers. 10. A sum of money put out at compound interest amounts to A' Papers. £1,760 8s. 4d. at the end of the second year, and to £1,904 1s. 4d. Old Proat the end of the fourth year; find the sum and the rate per cent. gramme. ARITHMETIC.-100 Marks. Two hours allowed for this paper. N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, twenty Mr. DEWAR, Head Inspector. Mr. D. P. FITZGERALD, District Inspector. 1. A and B are in partnership in a concern in which A has £5,000, and B has £7,500. The gross receipts for a year are £3,200; th of this is spent in salaries, and £30 in insurance. By an arrangement between the partners A is to receive 8 per cent. on his capital, and B 4 per cent. on his; the remainder of the profits is to be divided in the proportion of the capitals. Find the net receipts of A and B. 2. Explain clearly how you would teach a class to find by mental calculation:— (a). The price of 640 articles at 1s. 3d. each. (b.) The product of 999 and 74. (c.) The tax on £750 15s. 7 d. at 1s. 4d. in the £. 3. A gallon holds 10 lbs. Avoirdupois of water; a cubic foot of water weighs 1,000 ozs.; 1 litre 1 cubic decimetre; 1 decimetre = 3.937 inches. Find to two places of decimals how many litres there are in a gallon. (Decimals after thousandths may be neglected.) 4. The Greatest Common Measure of two numbers is 37; their Least Common Multiple is 23,680; one of the numbers is 185, find the other number. Prove the principle made use of in the solution of this exercise. 5. The Urban Districts in a county pay rates at 40 pence in the pound, the Rural Districts at 15 pence in the pound. The former pay of the whole rates, and the latter. Compare their rateable values. Female Teachers. Appendix. SectionIII., Exami nation 6. Equal sums are invested at simple interest, one for 2 years 8 months at 4 per cent. per annum, the other for 2 years 9 months at 6 per cent. per annum, and the amounts received differ by £73 12s. 6d. What was the sum invested in each case? 7. Explain clearly, as you would to a class, how to work questions Questions. in compound proportion. Female Teachers. 8. A person invests £6,825 in 3 per cents. at 91; he sells out £5,000 stock when they have risen to 93, and the remainder when A' Papers. they have fallen to 85. How much does he gain or lose by the transaction? If he invest the proceeds in 4 per cents. at par, what is the difference in his income? Old Programme. 9. If the Amount at the end of a year bear to the Principal the ratio of 21:20, what sum must be invested at Compound Interest so that the interest for the third year may be £27 11s. 3d.} 10. Divide £1,690 among four persons so that the first may have as much again as the second, the second 2 as much as the third, and the fourth as much as the second and third together. Male and Female Teachers. HISTORY.-40 Marks. Two hours allowed for this paper. N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, eight marks being assigned to each. 1. What do you know of the Public Games of ancient Greece, and of their political consequences? 2. Describe, as fully as you can, the English wars with France under the Plantagenets. 3. Give a short, sketch of the history of the province of Alsace. 4. Describe the rise to power of the House of Hapsburg. 5. What part of Spain did the Moors occupy; and when and by whom were they driven out? 6. Sketch the history of the kingdom of Lombardy until its overthrow by Charlemagne. 7. Describe the origin and growth of the British National Debt. 8. Describe the events leading up to the recognition of Grecian independence in 1829. 9. Write a short account of the vicissitudes in the history of the country which now forms the kingdom of Belgium., 10. State all you know of the Sepoy rebellion of 1857. ENGLISH LITERATURE-KING RICHARD III.— 60 Marks. Two hours allowed for this paper. The N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. questions in this paper are all of equal value, twelve marks being allowed for each. Mr. STRONGE, Head Inspector. Mr. MCALISTER, District Inspector. 1. Sketch the character of Anne as delineated in the play. 2. GLOU. "They do me wrong and I will not endure it.” In what context are these words used? Complete the speech. 3. Quote, or give the substance of, Tyrrel's account of the murder of the princes. 4. Write explanatory notes upon: (a.) "The piteous moan that Rutland made, When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him." (b.) A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham, Is this thy vow unto my sickly heart." (c.) "Thus has the course of justice wheel'd about And left thee but a very prey to time." (d.) "To fly the boar, before the boar pursues, Were to incense the boar to follow us." 5. "It was no part of the business of the dramatist to follow the historian too closely or to observe the unities of place and time." How have these unities been violated in the play? 6. Quote, or give the substance of, Richmond's oration to his soldiers on the field of battle. 7. Comment upon the words italicised: (a.) "Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble." (b.) "More bitterly could I expostulate." (c.) "For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood." (d.) "With that grim ferryman which poets write of.” (e.) "As index to the story we late talk'd of.” (f.) "Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy." 8. "But now two mirrors of his princely semblance Are cracked in pieces by malignant death, And I for comfort have but one false glass." Who spoke these words? Explain the passage fully. Appendix. Section III., Exami- Old Programme. Appendix. 9. Who were the speakers of the following lines, and to whom Section III, were they addressed? Examination Questions. Male and Female Teachers. A Papers. Old Programme. (a.) "But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave." Than a great queen with this condition." (c.) "You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon." 10. Critics have pointed out pride of birth as a trait in Richard's ENGLISH LITERATURE.-Shakespeare, King John. 60 Marks. Two hours allowed for this paper. N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will Mr. STRONGE, Head Inspector. Mr. MCALISTER, District Inspector. 1. State the title of the older play, on which "King John" is based: mention any points of difference. 2. "Knight, knight, good mother, Basilico like." 3. "And, father cardinal, I have heard you say That we shall see and know our friends in heaven." Quote the remainder of the speech of Constance. 4. "John is the royal criminal, weak in his criminality." Consider the justice of this criticism, and illustrate your remarks with quotations from the play. 5. Annotate the following with special reference to the words italicized: : (a.) GUR. Good leave, good Philip. FALC. Philip! sparrow. (b.) "It ill beseems this presence to cry aim To these ill-tuned repetitions." (c.) "Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub.” (d.) "I am too high-born to be propertied." (e.) "To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.' 6. Write a summary of the scene, in which King John suggests to Hubert the murder of Arthur. ( |