ENGLISH - I. GRAMMAR.

  1. Write the plurals of - ship, gas, elf, cliff, brother, salmon, father-in-law, knight-templar; the possessive singular and possessive plural of - man, book, goose; the comparative degree of - good, fore, merry; and the possessive plurals of - I, He, and It.

    2. Ships, gases, elves. cliffs, brothers or brethren, salmon, fathers-in-law, knights-templar.

    Man's, men's, book's, books', goose's, geese's

    Better, best; forward or farther, foremost; merrier, merriest.

    Ours, theirs, its. (23 points).
  2. Write down the present indicative, past tense, and past participle of - blow, choose, burst, say; write out fully the future indicative active and the future perfect indicative passive of any one of these verbs.

    3. Blowing, blew, blown.

    Choosing, chose, chosen.

    Bursting, burst, burst.

    Saying, said, said.

    I etc. shall or will blow; I etc. have been blown. (14 points).
  3. In the following passage parse the words in italics. How many statements are in it, and which, if any, are dependant?

"From yonder ivy-mantled tower

The moping owl does to the moon complain

Of such as, wandering near her secret bower,

Molest her ancient solitary reign."

Derive complain, ancient and solitary.

Yonder = adjective

Moping owl = adjectival noun phrase

Such as = pronoun phrase

Wandering near = adverbial phrase

Her - possessive pronoun

Reign = objective noun

Three statements, two being dependant (8 points)

Complain is from OF, Ancient OF, Solitary from Latin (6 points)

II. GEOGRAPHY.

  1. Where are the following countries: - Spain, Persia, Italy, China, Egypt, Mexico, and Chili? Name the capitals of all, and the chief rivers of any three of them.

    2. Sw Europe, sw Asia, s Euope, e Asia, n Africa, n or central America, s America

    Madrid, Teheran, Rome, Beijing or Peking, Cairo, Mexico city, Santiago

    Tagus, (?), Po or Tiber, Yellow River or Yangste, Nile, Rio Grande, (?). (17 points).
  2. Where are the following towns, and for what are they noted: - Quebec, Calcutta, Cork, Melbourne, Dunedin, Sheffield, and Bristol?

Canada, India, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Midlands, West of England

Timber, cotton, safe transatlantic port, wool, lamb, steel, port wine (14 points)

 

III. HISTORY.

  1. What happened at the following dates: - 1174, 1263, 1297, 1314, 1513, and 1603?

    2. 1174 Treaty of Falaise, 1263 Battle of Largs, 1297 Stirling Bridge, 1314 Bannockburn, 1513 Flodden, 1603 James I and VI

    (6 points)
  2. What Scottish sovereigns were imprisoned in England for a lengthened period? What led to their imprisonment and by whom was Scotland ruled in their absence?

Mary, Queen of Scots from 1567 - 1587, imprisoned because she was believed to be plotting for the throne of her hostess, Elizabeth of England; her son, James VI ruled through regent.

Charles 1, from 1647 to 1649, imprisoned because he was not prepared to embrace Presbyterianism and renounce Divine Right of Kings; his disloyal privy council ruled in his stead. (12 points).