PROVINCIAL HIGH SCHOOLS.

EXAMINATION QUESTIONS, JUNE, 1920.

County Academy Entrance

(Grade VIII).

(See Comments and Regulations of Council of Public Instruction, No. 67-75, and No. 222, Journal of Education, April 1920, page 123)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE.-VIII.

9 to 11 a. m., Thursday, 24 June, 1920.

1. Punctuate the following passage and assign reasons for any capital letters you put in place of small letters:

I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands at length said I show me now I beseech thee the secrets that lie hid under chose lark clouds that cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant. The genius making me no answer I turned about and beheld the long hollow valley of bagdad with oxen sheep and camels grazing upon the sides of it.

2. Quote two stanzas from any one of the following poems, and name the author of the poem from which you choose your quotation:-

(b) Tell the story "The Archery Contest," or "Drake's Voyage around the World," as found in your Fourth Reader.

3.

Complete the following sentences and give reasons for your choice of word in each case:

(a) He...

wish to go. Use don't or does'nt.

(b) Every country has.....heroes. Use its or their.

(c) Who.... the bell? Use rung or rang.

(d) Each of the boys. to win a prize. Use expect or expects.

(e) They have been here longer than

Use us or we.

(f) Neither Mary nor Jessie......here. Use were or was.

4. (a) Use the present participle of the verb lie (recline) in a sentence, and the past participle of the verb lay in another sentence.

(b) Give the principal parts of bind, blow, catch, cling, cut, make, take, win, write, Aly.

5. (a

Give the feminine of hero, heir, landlord, stag, lad.

(b)

Give the plural of Miss Smith, brother, crisis, alley, hero.

Give the superlative degree of much, little, near, beautiful, well.

6. Analyse the following sentence:-"The man who does the best he can deserves praise.

7. Parse words in italics in above extract.

8. Analyse the following sentences:-(a) "I wish the boy would finish the task I set him. (b) Love had he found in huts where poor men lie.

9. Parse words in italics in above extracts.

10. Dictation and Spelling Exercises.

DRAWING AND BOOKKEEPING.-VIII.

2.00 to 3.30 p. m. Thursday, 24 June, 1920.

1. On the scale of 50 to an inch draw a quadrilateral with two sides, 125 and 164, containing an angle of 75°. The third side, 110, is drawn from the other end of the line 164, at right angles to it. Find (a) the length of the 4th side, (b) and (c) the lengths of the longer and shorter diagonals, and (e) and (f) the remaining two angles of the quadrilateral.

2. Draw a cup and saucer on a base; Or, a pyramid, cone, cylinder and ball on a base, seen from above the level.

3. Draw a border design, Or, a wall paper unit design, Or, a conventionalized leaf as an element of a design.

4. Draw any nature study object you choose.

5. What is the use of book-keeping? Describe the principal features of the system you know.

6. Write out in the neatest form you can, an account current for a customer, receipting it as paid.

7. Name the different forms of paper which may be taken as money; and write out two different samples in your best style.

8. Explain the terms: interest, discount, liabilities, compound, dishonor, protest, balance-sheet, inventory.

(Technical Drawing question to be substituted for 2, 3 and 4 above).

9. Draw two views of an hexagonal packing nut. Make greatest diameter 4", with other dimensions to correspond; Or, Draw two views of a plate washer square and " thick, with hole 1'diameter.

GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.-VIII.

3.30 to 5.00 p. m., Thursday, 24 June, 1920.

(Only 3 questions in Geography and 3 in History to be answere 1).

1. Eight steamers enter Halifax Harbor, (a) two laden with coal, (b) two with fruit, (c) three with British maunfactured goods, (d) one with United States manufactures. In each case name a seaport or seaports from which these steamers may come, and give the country or state in which each port you mention is situated.

2. Draw a map of Nova Scotia showing location of 6 towns, 2 lakes, 2 rivers and 3 capes; also mark the following counties, showing boundary lines, Halifax, Hants, Colchester and Cumberland.

3. Briefly tell what you understand by the following terms, (a) commercial city; (b) mountain range; (c) naval station; (d) river valley; (e) temperate climate; (f) ocean currents; (g) capital city; give one example in each case.

4. Write a note on Newfoundland or Australia under the following heads; (a) Inhabitants; (b) Towns; (c) Products; (d) Government.

5. You are going on a journey from your home in Nova Scotia and your destination is Cape Town, South Africa. The end of your land journey in Canada is Montreal, then you arrive at Liverpool, England, then at Paris, France, then at Marseilles, then at Suez, then at Aden, finally at Cape Town. Give all the countries and waters passed thru and name as many as you can of the railways on which you have travelled.

6. Write a short historical note on one of the following: (a) Union of the Provinces of Canada; (b) Nova Scotia during the Revolutionary War; (c) Port Royal; (d) Louisburg; (e) Quebec.

7. Outline the principal events in the history of Nova Scotia between 1758 and 1800.

8. Assign events in the history of England or Canada, and where you can, of both England and Canada, to the following years:-1314, 1474, 1605, 1759, 1812, 1867, 1871, 1873, 1914, 1918.

9. Sketch the rise and fall of English power in France during the Lancaster period of English history.

10. Between the first of July 1917 and the present time there were many important events in the history of Canada and of Nova Scotia. Tell what you can about those events. (In some of those events the school children of Nova Scotia played a very important part. Some famous people visited Canada and Nova Scotia during that period).

Perhaps the little note in brackets above will help you.

MATHEMATICS.-VIII.

9 to 11 a. m., Friday, 25 June, 1920.

1. (a) Divide twenty million seventy thousand and five by 769.

2.

is 1716.

(b) What decimal part of a week is 83 hours?

The H. C. F. of certain numbers is 12; the L. C. M. of the same numbers
Find the numbers.

3. The land near the Bank of England, London, is valued at £19,360 per square rod. Find the value in Canadian dollars, at par, of a rectangular piece of this ground 66 ft. by 33 ft.

4. Two boys make 2 gallons of lemonade, using 32 lemons at 48 cents a a dozen, and 4 pounds of sugar at 20 cents a pound. The water cost noching. They sold the lemonade at 7 cents a glass, 6 glasses to the quart. How much was each boy's share of the profit?

5. Find the simple interest on $7300, at 5% from January 28, 1916, o April 9, 1916, both days inclusive.

6. A merchant insured his stock for of its value at 11%. The premium was $91.50. What was the value of the stock?

7. A merchant sold a customer a sui: for $30. an overcoat for $35, and a hat for $3.50. On the overcoat he made a profit of 20%,on the sui、 a profit of 35%, and on the hat he lost 30%. Find his gain on the whole transaction.

8. The assessed valuation of a school section is $148,500; there are 59 poll tax payers, male and female, each paying $2.00 poll tax; the total sum to be raised for school purposes is $2000. What sum will a man pay (including his poll tax) whose property is assessed at $7500?

9. For 9 bushels of wheat and 7 bushels of corn a farmer received $11.20. The wheat was 32 cents a bushel more than the corn. Find the price of a bushed of each kind of grain.

10. When a=2; b=3; Evaluate (a) √5(b+a)+ √7(b3——a3) +11.
(a3+3b)-2(3b2—a3)+2(a2+b2).

(b) 4 (b-a)

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. VIII.

2 to 3.30 p. m., Friday, 25 June, 1920.

(Ten questions only).

(A certificate for a full course in Mechanic or Domestic science for a year, may count as three questions; but 30 points can be given only for the highest possible excellence in the course, 15 being the value of a merely passable course. In other words the certificate of any such course shall be valued from 0 to 30, according to the evident excellence of the candidate's training. Candidates receiving values for such certificates, can receive no value for the answering of questions below on the subject of such certificate. If they answer more than seven questions below, they should get credit for the seven highest values. Questions 4, 5 and 6 must be answered by all).

1, 2 and 3. Indicate with drawings any work which you learned to do with tools; Or, household work, such as sewing, cookng, gardening,etc.. Describe the circumstances, whether at home or in school, under which you learned to do such work; Or, present a certificate of a full course as indicated in the paragraph above.

4. Write out (a) the words and (b) the music of "God Save the King," (Tonic sol-fa or staff notation).

5.

Name a weed you know, giving some peculiar character of it, and the color of its flowers. What is a weed?

6. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of boys and girls living in the country, or in a town or city. Just your own view of ice, no matter whether you are right or wrong.

7. Write what you know about any one of these; Colors, or minerals, or stones, or vegetable gardens, or flower gardens.

8. What do you know about (a) berries good to eat, (3) berries not good to eat, (c) mushroons, (d) toadstools, (e) fisn good to eat, (1) fish not good to eatSix parts in this question.

9. Mencion (a) bad habits against which young people should specially guard and (b) good habits which they should try to acquire.

10. What can you learn from examining the way streams of water cut up the roads and ground when you travel to and from school, or anywhere else.

11. (a) What experiment by your teacher did you like best? (b) What experiment or investigation of your own did you like best?

In a few words describe each experiment.

12. What rules should be observed for the health of (a) the teeth, and (b) the stomach?

13. Why should the legislature make a law for the vaccination of children attending school? Are you vaccinated? If not, why not?

14. Explain why the smoke from a fire goes up the chimney. Why are some chimneys made very high?

15. How is coal found in the ground? How did it come to be formed?

16. How is the coal mined so that the earth does not fall down upon the miners?

17. Both (a) gases and (b) water leak into a mine. Show where either (a) or (b) comes from and how it is got rid of.