USED AT THE Examination of Candidates for Direct Commissions, HELD IN APRIL, 1861. London: HARRISON, 59, PALL MALL, Bookseller to the Queen. EXAMINATION PAPERS. APRIL 1861. ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND COMPOSITION. W. STEBBING, Esq., M.A. Marks. Maximum, including Writing from Dictation 1200 Minimum required for Qualification 200 (N.B. From 200 to 300 Marks will be given for a good Essay, and 50 to 100 for each full and correct answer to the questions on Grammar and the Construction of Sentences.) Either, For an Essay: Describe the English national character, either simply, or by way of comparison with that of any other nation or nations. Or, Describe and compare life in the country and life in a populous town. A 1. How many moods are there in English? Explain the functions of each. 2. How many tenses have we in English? Describe their respective functions. 3. What is a conditional proposition? Compose two. 4. Give, and account for, the plural of valley, fife, folio, Mussulman, court-martial, Henry, stratum, beau, axis. 5. Explain, and distinguish the terms accent and quantity. Mention any six words in which a change of meaning is marked by a change of accent. 6. Explain the terms prosody, oblique, apostrophe, idiom, personify, tautology, obsolete. Give an example of each. 7. Mention, and account for any five instances of irregularity or defectiveness in verbs, and any five instances of the same in substantives. 8. Distinguish between the use of every and all; between and among; what and which; whose and of which. Give examples. 9. "I found there Messrs. A., B., and C., the former of whom has just arrived from England." "He now and then (when speaking of the East India Company) slides in the Presidency, as synonymous to the Company." "Him I accuse "The city gates by this has entered." Correct these sentences, if they require it, pointing out any errors in their present form. 10. "If this had been foretold to him, would it not require all the glow of enthusiasm to make him believe it?" "It were desirable that all hazardous conjectures about the Constitution may have been forborne." "The Lacryma Christi is not the precious liqueur which it has been some times described." Correct these sentences, if they require it, pointing out any errors in their present form. an infidel my com"I am the repre 11. "To be regarded as panion cared little about." sentative of a honest city." "I cannot draw up an indictment against a whole people." Correct these sentences, if they require it, pointing out any errors in their present form. HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. W. STEBBING, Esq., M.A. Maximum number of Marks 1200 (From 100 to 150 Marks will be given for each full and accurate answer.) HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. 1. Sketch the reigns of Stephen and Henry II. 2. In what instances, and from what causes, has the order of Hereditary Succession to the Crown been violated in England? 3. With what families did members of the Houses of Tudor and Stuart intermarry? 4. Name the chief persons who suffered death on political or religious charges during the reigns of Elizabeth, Charles II, and William and Mary. Specify the accusations brought against them |