1. What qualities do Lady Macbeth and Portia of Belmont have in common, and at what point do their characters diverge?
  2. Which of the three required Idylls of the King, viz. Gareth and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, The Passing of Arthur, seems to you more beautiful, and why?
  3. Compare the life of Goldsmith with that of Dr. Johnson. Which life seems to you the more successful?

B—Study and Practice

Answer two of questions 1, 2, 3, question 4, and either question 5 or 6:

  1. What makes the play of Julius Cæsar great?
  2. Compare the nature pictures in L'Allegro with those in Il Penseroso, using, if you prefer, Milton's own language.
  3. What were Burke's strong points as an orator?
  4. Write a well-constructed paragraph of about two hundred words on the character of Samuel Johnson as presented by Macaulay. Give your reasons for the arrangement of the ideas in your paragraph. Show how the principles of unity and coherence are illustrated by the arrangement of the ideas or material of your paragraph.
    1. Give two examples of each of the following kinds of sentences: simple, complex, compound.
    2. Punctuate the following passage:
    3. "And night came down over the solemn waste
      And the two gazing hosts and that sole pair
      And darkened all and a cold fog with night
      Crept from the Oxus soon a hum arose
      As of a great assembly loosed and fires
      Began to twinkle through the fog for now
      Both armies moved to camp and took their meal
      The Persians took it on the open sands
      Southward the Tartars by the river merge
      And Rustum and his son were left alone."
    1. Give explicit reasons for the correctness or the incorrectness of the following sentences:
      1. He, in a moment of excitement and affection, did this act of beneficence and of which he was very proud.
      2. We know that Oliver Goldsmith was himself not unlike the Vicar of Wakefield, which may partly account for the charm of the book.
      3. I neither regarded myself as rich nor poor.
      4. The book will not fail of a permanent place in literature, because it is badly written.
    2. Give examples of the correct use of the following words: affect, complement, mad, nice, fellow.

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.

(1907)

Allow one hour for each division of the examination.