French. Higher Local. GRAMMAR; PHILOLOGY; TRANSLATION; LITERATURE, 1650-1700. 1. Name the different adverbs we have in French. Account historically for the formation of the adverbs of manner. 2. Name the adjectives of colour that do not change for the plural. 3. Give a definition of the subjunctive mood; when are its tenses to be used? 4. Give the future 1st person singular and plural of savoir, asseoir, cueillir, tenir, voir, valoir, and explain the formation of that tense in those verbs. 5. Show by examples that the French letter a has been formed from the Latin letters a, e, i. 6. Name some of the words which are owing to the Spanish influence in France. 7. Write in French a short biography of La Fontaine, 8. Give a short analysis of Racine's Iphigénie. 9. Translate into French :No sooner said than done. Come down. Go up. How came this change to pass? It was some time before he recovered. Your watch is wrong. He has not been well brought up. You come in the very nick of time. So so. So so. It is broad daylight. Where did we leave off? In this time of the year, fish is frightfully dear. 10. Translate into English: "Les échecs, le jeu de dames, voire même le jeu de dominos font les délices du flâneur. Non pas qu'il joue à aucun de ces jeux là, il est vrai qu'il les sait à fond, il les comprend, il les devine; mais il laisse aux autres toute la peine toutes les inquiétudes, tous les bourdonnements du jeu. Il garde pour lui toute la curiosité, toute le plaisir. Il aime les lieux publics, on y entre quand et comme on veut, on en sort à sa fantaisie, on y parle et on s'y tait; on y est chez soi et l'on est chez les autres; on est son propre maître et on ne doit à personne ni un salut ni une visite, ni un sourire." German. Junior. GRAMMAR; TRANSLATION; RIEHL, CULTURGESCHICHTLICHE 1. Translate: : "Gaben mir Rath und gute Lehren, (i) Decline the words in italics. (ii) "Ich hätte krepieren können." Explain the peculiarity of this construction, give the other verbs which follow the same rule, and illustrate each by examples. (iii) Write in full the verb vergessen. 2. Translate-Culturgeschichtliche Novellen, p. 18, 1. 1 to p. 19, 1. 6. (i) Give the other cases (singular and plural) of Hundeschnur, Partei, Kaufleute, Bestie, Art, Trupp, Bund, Zunftgenossen, Fahrt. (ii) Comment on the following:-auf Ostern; zur Frankfurter Messe, Frist. (iii) What parts of speech are selbst, zumeist, erst, sobald, hinüber? Illustrate their use by sentences. (iv) Give the principal parts of wusste, fuhr auf, freigesprochen, mitgeritten. (v) Translate also p. 14, 1. 14 to p. 15, 1. 7. Find out the strong verbs in this passage, and give their chief parts. 3. Name six adjectives formed from nouns, and having the suffixes en, ern, los, isch, reich. Give the comparative and superlative of blass, klar, artig, viele, gehorsam. 4. Give the German for : (i) March 31st, 1884. Every one has some particular faults, and some have more than others. When we came to the last gate, we had to wait five minutes before it was opened. Both men were on horseback, but one rode home, and the other crossed over the bridge and went into the town. We heard of your being ill. Having finished our breakfast, we started off at once. German. TRANSLATION; GRAMMAR ; CULTURGESCHICHTLICHE NOVELLEN ; 1. Translate: HERMANN UND DOROTHEA. (i) "Freundschaft, Liche, Stein der Weisen, Und ich pries und suchte sie, (ii) Junior Paper, No. 1. 2. Translate-Culturgeschichtliche Novellen, p. 20, 1. 30 to p. 22, 1. 6. (i) Give the other cases (singular and plural) of Flegeljahren, Feld, Dienstmann, Wortes (1. 31), Forstwart, Laut, Bahn, Armbrust. (ii) Write down all the prepositions in the first ten lines of the above passage, and show the case governed by each. Also give the principal parts of all the strong verbs, and write down the subjects, predicates, and objects of each sentence in the same. (iii) Parse zum mindesten, jenseit (1. 9), athemlos (1. 20), gleich als wolle er ihn dem Herrn zum Schusse stellen. (iv) Write in full the verb kehrte um (1. 12). 3. Translate -Hermann und Dorothea, Terpsichore, "Da versetzte der Sohn bescheiden "&c., to "und so verliess er die Stube." (i) Give the positive and comparative degrees of der unterste, die besten, der erste, and the corresponding adverbial forms. (ii) Supply the definite article to the following, and show by what rules you decide on the gender of each :- Gekicher, Liedchen, Schrank, Schule, Lesen, Wirtschaft, Bursche. 4. Prefix the following particles to the past participles of any verbs-aus, durch, nach, über, be, um, ent, unter, wider. 5. Translate into German "At the present day these farms, stretching a considerable distance along the slopes of the hillside, are in the highest state of cultivation. Inch by inch, acre by acre, the land has been reclaimed... Behind and around the houses are gardens containing vegetables, sufficient not only for the respective families, but also for the partial supply of the adjacent market towns Inside the dwelling-houses, curtained windows, carpeted floors, pianos, violins, books, and nick-nacks bespeak a refinement supposed not to exist among Irish peasants. At the same time, the butter is of the best, and the home-baked bread delicious, made by the same hands that use the pianos and arrange the window gardens." German. Higher Local. GRAMMAR; TRANSLATION; PHILOLOGY; LITERATURE, 1750-1830. 1. Translate into modern German : (i) "Ez was in eines vasten umb' einen mitten tach, ein vogel kom geflozzen. Kûdrûn do sprach: owê, vogel schoene, du erbarmest mir so sêre, daz du so vil gefluizest ûf disem fluote' sprach diu maget hêre." (ii) "Ez was ein küneginne gesezzen über sê: ir gelîche enheine man wesse ninder mê. diu was unmâzen scæne, vil michel was ir kraft, si scôz mit snellen degenen umbe minnê den scaft.” 2. Give the English for : (i) "Eude gut, Alles gut. Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen. Die Engel, Die nennen es Himmelsfreud, Die Menschen, Die nennen es-Liebe!" Ich 3. Translate from Die Jungfrau von Orleans (Schiller), Act IV., Sc. 1. (i) Paraphrase the passage, "Kummert mich das Los der Schlachten," &c. (ii) Decline the following: Zwift, Wahl, Beruf, Stab, Schild, Schuld, Stamm, Gedanke, Altar, Bild, Ding, Reichtum. 4. Write a short essay in English on "The effects produced on German literature by the political events of the latter half of the eighteenth century.' 5. Mention one of the chief works of Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, "Jean Paul," and Wieland, illustrating the distinguishing characteristics of each from the specimen work you choose. 6. Explain : "Johann Heinrich Voss, ein tüchtige, derb niederdeutsche Natur, unter den Mitglidern des Hainbundes." 7. Translate:— "The Arabs broke and fell back, though even now it cannot be said that they fled. Theirs was the sullen, unwilling retreat of men slow to confess themselves beaten while still possessed of life. They turned frequently to fire on their pursuers, and hovered stubbornly in the distance, when the General completed his victory by marching on the wells and taking possession of Osman Digma's camp. Arithmetic. Junior, Senior, and Higher Local. Junior Work, Nos. 1-9 inclusive. Higher Local Work, Nos. 1-17 inclusive. 1. Find the product of the sum and difference of 2988 and 8476. 2. Resolve into prime factors 210, 147, 175, and 315. 3. Amongst how many persons may £79 16s. 3d. be divided if each receive £5 6s. 5d.? 4. The length of the fence round a field is 1920 yards; how many acres does that field contain? What would the rent of the field be at £2 10s. per acre? 5. Express as vulgar fractions, 5.1875; 7.203125; 2.345; 1.0428571. 6. Find the value of 32.5 of 10s.+1·85 of 6s. 8d. -·001953125 of £40. 8. How much can 6 men earn in 21 days of 12 hours, when 4 men earn £18 10s. 44d. in 35 days of 10 hours? 9. (i) At what rate per cent. will the simple interest on £1,043 15s. amount to £121 15s. 5d. in 2 years 1 month? (ii) Find the discount on £151 17s. 6d. due 4 years hence at 53%. 10. A cistern is supplied by 3 taps, A, B, C, which would fill |