English History.

Junior.

(a) FROM THE ACCESSION OF WILLIAM III. TO THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE III.; (b) GENERAL QUESTIONS.

(a)

1. What were the chief results of the Rebellion of 1715? 2. What do you know of Alberoni, Stanhope, Walpole, Oxford?

3. Give any particulars you know about: (i) the Septennial Act, (ii) the South Sea Scheme, (iii) the Schism Act, (iv) Bishop Atterbury's Plot.

4. Senior, No. 4.

(b)

5. Show, by a table of descent, the claims of the House of Tudor to the English throne.

6. Describe briefly the chief rebellions of Henry VII.'s reign. 7. What were the aims of Henry VII.'s policy at home and abroad?

8. Enumerate, with dates, the chief events of Henry VIII's reign. What do you know of More, Wolsey, Charles V., Catharine of Arragon?

9. Senior, No. 9.

10. Give an account of the "Pilgrimage of Grace," stating its causes and results.

Geography.

Junior.

PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND COMMERCIAL, OF EUROPE AND GREAT BRITAIN.

1. Fill in, in detail, an Outline Map of Scotland.

2. How is Scotland divided as to the industrial pursuits of her inhabitants? What do you know of the natural productions and foreign trade of Scotland?

3. Senior, No. 3.

4. How were the political divisions of France affected by the Revolution of 1789? What is the present form of Government in France?

5. Draw a plan of the Seine, of the Loire, and of the Rhone, marking some of the chief towns on the banks of each.

6. What effect has climate in forming national character? Illustrate by examples.

English History.

Senior.

(a) FROM THE ACCESSION OF WILLIAM III. TO THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE III. (6) GENERAL QUESTIONS.

(a)

1. What do you know about the "Party Literature" of the early part of the 18th Century?

2. Describe the policy (home and foreign) of Stanhope and of Walpole.

3. What was the South Sea Scheme? Describe its failure, and show that Walpole's advancement was the result of this.

4. What do you know of the social condition of England during George I.'s reign?

6. What was the great change which took place in the character of the Sovereignty from the Accession of the House of Tudor?

7. What do you know of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. (i) as rulers, (ii) as regards their foreign policy?

8. Describe briefly the great "Revival of Learning which took place in this century. Name some of the chief leaders in this movement.

9. What were the chief causes (remote and immediate) which led to the English Reformation? Describe briefly the course which this movement took up to the year 1553.

Geography.

Senior.

PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, AND COMMERCIAL, OF EUROPE AND GREAT BRITAIN.

1. Junior, No. 1.

2. What do you know of the character of the people of Scotland? Show what was the effect of the Reformation, and of the Act of Union of 1707, upon the Scotch as a nation.

3. What do you know of the population and government of Belgium? Describe its physical features.

4. What is meant by the Teutonic, Romanic, and Slavonic States of Europe? Under which heading would you place Belgium, France, and Great Britain?

5. Give a brief sketch of the history of France from 1815 to 1871.

6. Where are the following situated, and what interest is attached to their names ?-St. Germains, Soissons, Ile de France, the Gironde, Languedoc, Sedan.

7. Show that it is true that in the temperate regions are to be found the most civilised peoples of the world. How do you account for this?

English History.

Higher Local.

GENERAL 449-1066.

1. Give the names and the original homes of the German tribes who invaded Britain. Describe briefly the gradual conquest of Britain by the English. Compare this with other Teutonic

conquests, as that of Gaul by the Franks.

2. Trace the history of the Danish power in England.

3. Estimate the effect of the introduction of Christianity, and especially of the Roman Church organization, on the development of English national unity.

4. Explain carefully the constitution and powers of the Witanagemot.

5. Describe the policy of Dunstan. Compare it (i) with that of Ethelred the Unready, (ii) with that of Canute. What do you think of it as regards (i) popularity, (ii) wisdom, (iii) success?

6. Explain very briefly the position of the following ranks of society :-Slaves, theyns, ealdormen, king, æthelings.

N.B.-The questions for October will be on the period 1066—

1154.

SPECIAL.

THE REIGN OF HENRY VII.

1. What were the grounds of Henry VII.'s title to the throne? Show how the insecurity of his position determined the policy of his reign.

2. Give a brief account of the attempts made by the Yorkist party to overthrow the Tudor Government during the reign of Henry VII. Compare the positions of that party at the beginning and the end of the reign.

3. Explain the origin and constitution of the court of the Star Chamber. Give a brief history of it, with special reference to its position under the Tudors.

4. Describe briefly the state of affairs in Ireland which led to Poyning's Law. What were the chief provisions of this Act?

5. Account for the servility of Parliament to the Crown during the Tudor period.

N.B.-The questions for October will be on the reign of Henry VIII.

English Literature.

Junior

AS YOU LIKE IT.

1. Describe the action of the Fourth Act.

2. Give the modern and the Shakesperian meaning of the following words and their derivation :-Censure, nice, humorous, prevent, leer, favour, purlieus, abuses.

3. Explain fully the following passages, and state by whom and on what occasion they were spoken, and give their context. (i) "I scarce think you have swam in a gondola.”

(ii)

"The boy

(iii) "Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed." "She could not love me

(iv)

Were man as rare as phoenix."

4. Quote Act IV., Sc. 3, 1. 97–119.

5. Analyse: :

"Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age,
And high top bald with dry antiquity,

A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,
Lay sleeping on his back."

English Grammar.

Junior.

1. Define adverbs, giving examples.

2. How are adverbs classified?

3. Give examples of adverbs derived from (i) nouns, (ii) adjectives, (ii) pronouns.

4. In what way is the comparison of adverbs formed?

5. Analyse:

"My father was a justice of the peace, and I supposed he possessed the power of life and death over all men, and could hang anybody that offended him."

English Literature.

Senior.

AS YOU LIKE IT.

1. Quote, and explain thoroughly, the classical allusions in Act III.

2. Give the substance of Jaques' speech, describing the various kinds of melancholy.

3. Junior, No. 2.

4. Junior, No. 3.

5. Quote Act III., Sc. 3, l. 137–155.

6. Paraphrase Act IV., Sc. 3, 1. 97-119.

7. Analyse Act IV., Sc. 3, 1. 126–131.

English Grammar.

Senior.

1. Junior, No. 1.

2. Junior, No. 2.

3. Junior, No. 3.

4. How are English adverbs formed? Give examples illustrating your answer.

5. Analyse:

"In that instant the far-off raft appeared for a second against the red disc, its needle-like oar and diminutive signal cut sharp and black against the bright surface, and in the next instant was thrust away into the dusk again."