(1907)

I

1 Decline the personal pronouns.

2 Give the preterites and past participles of the following verbs: lie, lay, sit, set, raise, rise, dive.

3 Give the plurals of the following nouns: spoonful, Mussulman, mother-in-law, series, sheep, alumnus, prospectus.

4 Give the case, number and construction of each noun and pronoun, and the mood, tense, voice and construction of each verb in the following sentence: If, in short, a writer sincerely wishes to communicate to another mind what is in his own mind, he will choose that one of two or more words equally in good use which expresses his meaning as fully as it is within the power of language to express it.

II

Write carefully prepared themes, about two pages in length, on two of the following topics:

  1. A mediæval tournament.
  2. The career and character of Lancelot.
  3. The outlaws in Ivanhoe.
  4. Goldsmith's early life.
  5. The death of Banquo.
  6. Literary life in England in the eighteenth century.