THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JANUARY, 1886.
FIRST CLASS.
HISTORY.
Wednesday, 9-12.
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1. What do you know of the following: Anselm, Geoffrey of Anjou, Stephen Langton, Simon de Monyfort, Maid of Norway, Jack Cade, Perkin Warbeck, Roger Bacon, Sir Thomas More, Cranmer, Sir Francis Drake, and Edmund Spenser.
2. Compare the reigns of Edward II and Richard II.
3. Who fought the following battles and which side won. Northallerton, Fair of Lincoln, Bannockburn,
Nevill's Cross, St. Alban's, Tewkesbury, Flodden and Pinkie.
4. In whose reigns did England make great conquests in France. Give the names of the battles. 5. What events happened in 1100, 1172, 1215, 1327, 1483, 1492, 1587, 1600.
6. Write a short account of the conquest of Wales.
FIRST CLASS.
GRAMMAR.
Tuesday, 2-4.30.
1. Explain how some prepositions come to have the function of conjunctions, give examples. Are
there any instances of the converse?
2. Give 6 examples of each of the sub-divisions into which you would separate Adverbs of Time.
3. What is the difference between Restrictive and Co-ordinate clauses. Give illustrations.
4. Under what circumstances does the predicate precede the subject.
5. Analyse:This being admitted can it be denied that the education of the common people is a most
effectual means of securing our persons and our property,
6. Parse the underlined words in the following,-
Both the panther and the leopard are widely diffused through the tropical regions of the old world, so that they have a much more extensive range than either the tiger or lion.
7. Paraphrase:-
Old men and beldams, in the streets,
Do prophesy upon it dangerously;
Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths ;
And when they talk of him they shake their heads
And whisper one another in the ear
And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist:
And he that hears makes fearful action,
With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes.
FIRST CLASS.
GEOGRAPHY.
Thursday, 2-4.30.
1. Give the names of the principal rivers whose basins incline to the Atlantic.
2. Describe accurately the positions of Kiev, Stettin, Antwerp, Rouen, Malaga, Leghorn, Belgrade,
Prague, Bergen, Helsingfors, Aberdeen, Cadiz, Cork and Bristol.
3. Mention the Capes, Islands, and Seas a ship would pass and traverse in sailing from Liverpool to
Archangel.
4. Classify the Countries of Europe according to their religions.
5. Give roughly the extreme limits of Latitude and Longitude which bound the European Continent.
What are the most Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Capes.
6. Describe carefully the causes of a lunar and of a solar eclipse.
7. What are the causes of the Trade winds?
FIRST CLASS.
MAP DRAWING.
Europe,.....
..from memory.