(Autumn, 1907)

State:

  1. At what school you studied English.
  2. Under whose instruction.
  3. For how long.
  4. The text-books used.

A—Composition and Rhetoric

  1. Write, first making an outline, on two of the following topics:
    1. Was Portia a lovable character—a girl who would make a good wife?
    2. The story of Lancelot and Elaine.
    3. Johnson and Goldsmith.
    4. Macaulay's ideas of the Puritans and of King Charles I.
    5. High-school fraternities.
    6. The town I like best.
  2. Explain the principle of coherence, and show how, from sentence to sentence, you have made the coherence plain in your two foregoing compositions.
  3. Define and give synonyms for the following words: passive, taunt, sanguine, affect, fix, stingy. Be equally careful about the truth and the form of your definitions.
  4. Give, in a sentence of 30 words or more, three examples of parallel constructions.

B—Literature

  1. Who wrote: The Faerie Queene, Rasselas, Treasure land, Vanity Fair, Tintern Abbey, Love's Labor's Lost, Robinson Crusoe, Locksley Hall?
  2. What becomes of Fleance? of Rebecca, the Jewess? of Cassius? of Gareth? of Godfrey Cass? What was the result of Burke's speech on Conciliation?
  3. Locate and explain the following passages:
    1. a Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears.
    2. b Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
      Such notes as warbled to the string
      Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek,
      And made Hell grant what love did seek.
    3. c He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.
    4. d I am a soldier, I,
      Older in practice, abler than yourself
      To make conditions.
    5. e The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath.