HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. W. STEBBING, Esq., M.A. HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE 1. Describe the acts and character of Edward III. 2. Describe the acts and character of Oliver Cromwell. 3. Sketch the reign of George III, from his Accession to the Peace of Amiens. 4. Mention the principal provisions of Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights. 5. What Kings of Scotland have fought against English armies, and with what results? 6. What eminent men have borne the titles of Leicester, Shrewsbury, Northumberland, Buckingham, Halifax? 7. What offensive alliances has England formed with foreign States since A.D. 1600, and for what objects? 8. Name, in order of time (but without giving any account), the Prime Ministers during the reigns of George III and George IV. 9. Mark on the map by asterisks (*), with the names written near them, the situation of Londonderry, the Boyne, Limerick, Enniskillen, Drogheda, Culloden, Dunbar, Stirling, Berwick, Killiecrankie. 10. Mark on the map by asterisks, with the names written near them, the situation of Carnarvon, Tewkesbury, Pontefract, Lewes, St. Albans, Bridgewater, Naseby, Colchester, Newark, Cardiff. ANCIENT HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. 1. Draw an outline of the Map of Ancient Greece; and mark in it the boundaries of the States of Peloponnesus. 2. On what occasions do you meet with the names of Ægina, Ætolia, Arginusa, Mantinea, Veii, Zama, Pompeii, the Rubicon? their situation. 3. Write a life of Hannibal. Describe 4. Give an account of any four persons who took a prominent part in the civil contests of Rome. 5. Name, with dates, the battles in which the Greeks defeated the Persians, MODERN CONTINENTAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. 1. Describe briefly any important contests carried on by the Papacy with temporal Sovereigns on the Continent, between A.D 1100 and 1600. 2. Write a life of the Emperor Charles V. 3. State the causes or cause of the French Revolution in the last century. 4. Enumerate the States into which Italy was divided before the late war; and state briefly how each family then reigning originally gained its dominions. 5. Give the dates of the Hejira, first Crusade, the accession or death of Louis XI, commencement or end of the sittings of the Council of Trent, death of Gustavus Adolphus, commencement of the War of the Spanish Succession. Battles of Austerlitz and Leipsic. MATHEMATICS. Morning Paper. I. TODHUNTER, Esq., M.A. OBLIGATORY PORTION. [N.B.-Questions in the remaining part of the Obligatory Section will be set in the Afternoon Paper.] 1. Add together 1277. 10s. 44d., 1667. 17s. 71⁄2d., 82l. 1s. 10 d., 12l. 14s. 9d., and 153l. 15s. 3 d. 2. Divide 12791. 13s. 8d. by 23. 3. Reduce 119 lbs. 3oz. 9 dwts. 14 grains to grains; and 44532000 seconds to weeks. 4. Find the value of 84 cwt. 1 qr. 14lbs., at 11. 4s. 4d. per cwt. 5. If the carriage of 60 cwt. through 20 miles cost 147. 10s., what weight ought to be carried 25 miles for 5l. 8s. 9d.? 6. Express 12 + 2 5 + 4/ as a simple fraction; and 16 multiply of 21 by 3 of 11. 7. Divide 04625 by 37 and 123428 by 01046. 8. Find the value of 046875 of a ton, and reduce 1s. 3 d. to the decimal of a guinea. 9. Find the interest on 42021. 10s. for 5 years at 4 per cent. simple interest. 44 10. Find the square root of 00139876 and of 156 169. VOLUNTARY PORTION. 1. Describe an equilateral and equiangular pentagon about a given circle. 2. If the sides of two triangles about each of their angles be proportionals, the triangles shall be equiangular, and have their equal angles opposite to the homologous sides. 3. Describe a circle which shall touch a given circle, have its centre on a given line, and pass through a given point in that line. 4. Show that b2 is greater than, equal to, or less than ac, according as a, b, c are in arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, or harmonical progression. 5. The sides of a triangle are 528, 462, and 858 yards; determine the area. 6. Calculate by logarithms (2) The time in which a sum of money will be doubled at 3 per cent. compound interest. Euclid. 1. If two angles of a triangle be equal to one another, the sides also which subtend the equal angles shall be equal to one another. 2. If two triangles have two angles of one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, namely, either the sides adjacent to the equal angles, or the sides opposite to equal angles in each, then shall the other sides be equal each to each, and also the third angle of the one equal to the third angle of the other. MATHEMATICS. Afternoon Paper. I. TODHUNTER, ESQ., M.A. OBLIGATORY PORTION. 1. Divide 2x3 +8x1y — 3x3y — 4x3 — 12x2y2+3x2+18xy-6 by 2x3-3xy+3. 2. Find the value of x3-y2x when x=3y. x2+2xy + y2 3. Reduce the following fraction to its lowest terms, - a)3 -2a 4x-21 57-3x 6. A certain fraction becomes 7 when the denomi nator is increased by 4, and when the numerator is diminished by 15; determine the fraction. |