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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH JANUARY, 1892.
PUPIL TEACHERS.-THEORY, &c.
9-12.
1. No great organization can exist without a root idea. What is the root idea of Victoria College? 2. Seeing that useful knowledge, such as is an aid to power, favours a man's success in life by enlarg- ing his capacities for useful action-how would you arrange the subjects taught in Victoria College in the order of their comparative usefulness? Give your reasons.
3. What reasons can you give for or against the general rule "First educate the senses, then the memory, then the intellect and last of all the critical faculty"? How is that rule practically applied in a school?
4. Give a short account of the condition of education in the Middle Ages.
5. State in a few words the leading ideas underlying the educational system of (1) Erasmus (2)
Rabelais (3) Montaigne.
6. What is the best method of teaching English Composition and of correcting Composition Exercises? 7. State your reasons for and against the employment of pupil-teachers, considering that it has been alleged that, under the pupil-teacher system, the beginner is allowed to blunder at the expense of his first pupils into whatever skill he may in the end manage to pick up.
8. What are the commonest errors, in vowel sounds, made by Chinese boys?
9. What is meant by the suggestion that, in the teaching given in Victoria College, the use of the
known might, with advantage be employed more systematically?
10. Write as a copy.
1. Round hand
2. Small text
Personality Honesty is the best policy
CLASS I-SHAKESPEARE.
9-12.
1. Was Hamlet's madness real or assumed? Had Queen Gertrude knowledge of, or part in, her late
husband's murder? Support your answers by reference to the play.
2. Derive the following words, and give their meaning
eyas fee hansaw
imposthume nick name
nonce
mobled pansies perdy
3. What accompanying actions are necessary to explain the following
(a) while memory holds a seat in this distracted globe.
(b) so uncle, there you are.
(c) with an entreaty, herein further shown.
(d) Take this from this.
(e) dead for a ducat.
(f) sweets to the sweet.
periwig swounds
4. More common quotations are taken from this play, than perhaps from any other. City four of
these, giving the context.
5. What do you know of the following places and people?
Capitol, Cyclops, Elsinore, Fortinbras, Hecuba, Herod, Niobe, Osric, Wittenberg, Yorick.
6. Describe in your own words the interview between Hamlet and the Ghost.
7. Write from memory twelve lines of one of the speeches beginning as follows,
(a) Tis sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet.
(b) To be, or not to be, that is the question.
(c) O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven.
CLASS I A.---HISTORY.
2-4.
1. Give the date of the meeting of the First English Parliament. What forms of national assembly
were there previously?
2. Write, in order, a list of the monarchs from John to Richard III; and state what relation each
bore to his predecessor.
3. Who were Beaufort, Black Prince, Glendower, Hubert de Burgh, Innocent III, Joan of Arc?
4. How did England become engaged in war with Scotland? Give the names of the chief battles
fought with Scotland during this period, with their result.
5. Write a short account of the reign of Richard II.
6. What is meant by the Wars of the Roses? From what cause did they arise? Give the names of
the kings and leaders on each side. When and how did the Wars terminate?
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