(1905)

I

Answer all the questions:

  1. Correct any errors in the following sentences. Give reasons for the changes you make.
    1. The man whom she thought was her cousin was not.
    2. After digging for some weeks longer, another strata was discovered.
    3. Seating myself by the fire, which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.
    4. To the right of this monument stands the City Hall, a building of granite, and a few more structures of less importance.
    5. The tire was cut all the width and was caused by a wood-chopper who placed an axe beneath the tire.
  2. Insert the proper forms (shall or will) in the following sentences:
    1. I _____ be glad to do it.
    2. I _____ gladly do it.
    3. If the school year is shortened, we _____ find that less work is accomplished.
    4. _____ you take my book, or _____ you be able to do without one?
  3. Define the following expressions: predicate, passive voice, intransitive, possessive, superlative.
II

Answer three questions:

  1. Describe the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius in the Fourth Act of Julius Cæsar. What characteristics of each does the quarrel reveal?
  2. Narrate the adventures of Moses at the fair in The Vicar of Wakefield.
  3. Where does Carlyle place the responsibility for the misfortunes of Burns?
  4. Sketch the life of Lowell.
  5. Describe the change which came over the title-character in The Princess.
III

Answer all the questions:

1 Explain words in italics.

The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,

His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff:

Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes

Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm

Excite the mortified man.

Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides,

Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide

Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world;

Or whether thou, to our moist vows denied,

Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old,

Where the great Vision of the guarded mount

Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold.

2 Scan the last two lines in the second passage above, as they would be read naturally. Name the feet in the first of the two lines, and give the metrical name for the second line as a whole.

3 What does Macaulay say of Addison as a satirist?