CUTTING-OUT AND DRESSMAKING (40 Marks). Appendix. Section III.. Candidate will be required to cut out two articles, viz. :-nightdress for grown person and baby's day gown. The night-dress Examishould be made to the following measurements, which are half the nation full size-Length of yoke, 9 inches; front shoulder, 31 inches; Questions. length of body, 27 inches; width (exclusive of gores), 18 inches; length of sleeve (including cuff), 11 inches. Paper for cutting out will be provided. Articles are to be tacked together with needle and thread; no pins are to be left in them. Each is to be marked with examination number. In dressmaking candidate is required to cut out skirt of dress to the following measurements:-Front, 28 inches; side, 28 inches; back, 29 inches. Candidate is requested to comply as exactly as possible with all requirements mentioned above, as neglect of any of these instructions may lessen the value of her work. Female King's Scholars. Col. 3 Papers. DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND HYGIENE.-50 Marks. One hour and a half allowed for this paper. N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, ten marks being allowed for each. Mr. HEADEN, Senior Inspector. Miss FITZGERALD, Organiser of Cookery and Laundry Instruction. 1. Enumerate the qualities that commend a well selected dwellinghouse. 2. Give full directions for scouring boarded floors. 3. Describe the course of the blood in its circulation through the body, and state the changes it undergoes, and the functions it discharges at each stage. 4. How should house refuse be disposed of? What supervision should be given to the dustbin? 5. What disease arises from the exclusive use of salt meat? What is the remedy? 6. Distinguish between ventilation by aspiration and ventilation by propulsion, and state the merits and disadvantages of each. 7. What is albumen? Name the several specialised forms of it, and state the foods in which they are found respectively. 8. Compare the consequences following the use of an exclusive meat food and of an exclusive vegetable food respectively, and draw an inference. 9. How would you know if an oven was of the correct heat for baking bread? State how it could be tested. 10. Describe fully the weekly cleaning a bedroom should get. Male and Female King's Scholars. Appendix. II.-QUESTIONS Set to King's Scholars (Two Year Students) at the close of their First Year of Residence. Section III., II. (a.) Patronymic. (b.) Speak, for thou long enough has acted dummy. (c.) (d.) Presumptuous lord!" the monarch said; £. S. d. N.B.--The Superintendent, when reading this passage, will bear in mind that, as the candidate is expected to punctuate it properly, the various stops should not be named. Dr. ALEXANDER, Senior Inspector. Mr. YATES, District Inspector. The personal courage and profound military science of Parma were invaluable to the royal cause; but his subtle, unscrupulous, and subterranean combinations of policy were even more fruitful at this period. No man ever understood the art of bribery more thoroughly or practised it more skilfully. He bought a politician, or a general, or a grandee, or a regiment of infantry, usually at the cheapest price at which those articles could be purchased, and always with the utmost delicacy with which such traffic could be conducted. Men conveyed II. nation themselves to government for a definite price-fixed accurately in Appendix. florins and groats, in places and pensions while a decent gossamer Section III., of conventional phraseology was ever allowed to float over the nakedness of unblushing treason. Men high in station, illustrious by Examiancestry, brilliant in valour, huckstered themselves, and swindled a Questions. confiding country for as ignoble motives as ever led counterfeiters or bravoes to the gallows, but they were dealt with in public as if actuated only by the loftiest principles. Behind their ancient shields, ostentatiously emblazoned with fidelity to church and king, they thrust forth their itching palms with the mendicity which would be Cols. 2 and 3 hardly credible, were it not attested by the monuments more perennial than brass, of their own letters and recorded conversations. Male and Female King's Scholars. Papers. GRAMMAR.-60 Marks. Two hours allowed for this paper. N.B. In addition to the questions in Parsing and Analysis, namely, Nos. 1 and 2, which are compulsory, only three questions are to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the Parsing and Analysis and the first three other answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, twelve marks being allowed for each. Dr. BEATTY, Senior Inspector. Mr. ROGERS, District Inspector. 1. Parse fully the words in italics. It is not allowable to parse, instead of a word given, one substituted for it. For to her cheek, in feverish flood, One instant rushed the throbbing blood, Left its domain as wan as clay. Roderick, enough! enough!" he cried, 2. Write a complete analysis of the following:-" A strong guard of men-at-arms, renewed at intervals, from two hours to two hours, surrounded the lists and kept watch during the night." 3. Explain how you would teach a class the use of the Subjunctive Mood. 4. Explain fully the difference in the use of the Relative Pronoun that, as distinguished from who and which. 5. Enumerate the various kinds of words or phrases which can serve as the subject of a verb, and give an example of each. 6. Write out what you know of the derivation of Adverbs from Nouns, giving examples. 7. "What is not composed of two words, and is therefore not a Compound Relative." Discuss the truth of this statement, and show, by the aid of an example, how you would parse the word. Col. 2 Papers. Appendix. 8. Enumerate the verbs which take a nominative case after them, Section III., as well as before them, and account for this concord. II. Exami nation Questions. Male and Female King's Scholars. Col. 2 Papers. 9. Frame sentences to illustrate the enlargement of the subject by means of (a.) A gerundial infinitive; (d.) A noun in the possessive case. 10. Correct (giving reasons), or justify the following expres sions: (a.) It tasted sweet. (b.) He wished to be me. (c.) An officer on European and on Indian service are in very different situations. (d.) The fact of me being a stranger to him does not justify his conduct. Cols. 2 and 3 ENGLISH COMPOSITION.-60 Marks. Two hours allowed for this paper. GEOGRAPHY.-70 Marks. Two hours allowed for this paper. N.B.-One of the map-drawing questions is compulsory. In addi tion to it only four questions are to be attempted. The Examiner will read only the answer to the map-drawing question and the first four other answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, fourteen marks being assigned to each. [Neatness and accuracy in the drawing of maps and diagrams will be taken into account.] Mr. MURPHY, Senior Inspector. Mr. MACMAHON, District Inspector. 1. Draw an outline map of the eastern and southern coast-line of England from Great Grimsby to Plymouth, showing the rivers, and the mountain ranges in which these rivers rise. 2. On the outline Map of the World supplied to you mark, by shading or colouring, the British possessions in the Western Hemisphere, naming each; and show the position of Gozo, Mauritius, St. Helena, Seychelles, Elmina, and the following towns:-Dunedin. Durban, Brisbane, Jamestown, Georgetown. 3. What parallel chains of mountains follow roughly the 40th Appendix. parallel of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere? Section III., 4. Write out complete notes of a class-lesson on Rivers, explaining ExamiRainfall, Watershed, Source, Affluent, Delta, Mouth; and illustrate nation Questions. by reference to a suitable diagram, showing the course of the Severn, Shannon, or Ganges. 5. Write a descriptive account of any two of the following: (a) Midlothian, (b) Ontario, (c) Maltese Islands. 6. Give a short account of the means of internal communication, by land and water, in Ireland. 7. Name the seven most important ports in Great Britain, and write short notes descriptive of their imports and exports respectively. 8. What similarities may be noted in the North Pacific Ocean Current and the Gulf Stream? 9. From what colonial possessions does England obtain raw material for her staple industries? 10. Compare, geographically, Ireland with Scotland as a resort for tourists. Male and Female King's Scholars. ENGLISH LITERATURE.-70 Marks. Two hours allowed for this paper. N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted, one at least from each Section, A, B, C. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value, fourteen marks being allowed for each. Mr. HYNES, Senior Inspector. Mr. MCALISTER, District Inspector. SECTION A. 1. Enumerate the works of Goldsmith; describe them as fully as you can. 2. Name the authors, and state the subject, of the following: (a.) "The Dispensary "; (b.) "The Gentle Shepherd "; .(c.) "London"; (d.) "The Task." Col. 2 Papers. |