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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JANUARY, 1890.
CLASS I-SHAKESPEARE...
Friday, January 3.—2–4.30.
1. When was Shakespeare's play of Macbeth written? From what sources was the plot derived ?
Illustrate the freedom with which Shakespeare employed his material.
2. What is an anachronism? Quote some examples of it in this play.
3. Describe the contrast between the characters of Macbeth and his wife. 4. Refer each of the following to its proper rhetorical figure.
a. That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.
b.
Look like the innocent flower,
c. But be the serpent under it.
d. As thick as hail came post with post.
e. Not so happy yet much happier.
f. Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal. g. I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal.
For it must seem their guilt..
h. Lennox
How monstrous.
It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain
To kill their gracious father! damned fact!
How it did grieve Macbeth!
5. What is the context of the following proverbial phrases? Who uttered them? Give any necessary
explanations.
a. primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.
b. which is nothing to those that know me.
c. make assurance double sure.
d. scotched the snake not killed it.
e. screw your courage to the sticking place.
f. the milk of human kindness.
6. Where are the following? What allusion is made to them in this play? Acheron, Aleppo, Colme-
kill, Cumberland, Fife, Forres, Hyrcania, Inverness, Scone,
CLASS I.-EUCLID..
Friday, January 3-9-12.
1. If two angles of a triangle are equal, the sides which are opposite to them are equal.
2. The opposite sides and angles of a parallelogram.are equal and the diagonal bisects it.
3. The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is greater than the perimeter of the rectangle of the same
area and height.
4. "All the interior angles of a triangle are together equal to two right angles." What corollaries,
not given by Euclid, can be deduced from this?
5. If a straight line is divided equally and also unequally; the rectangle under the unequal parts and the square on the part between the points of section, are together equal to the square on half the line.
6. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one
part, may be
equal to the square on the other part.
7. If a diameter of a circle cuts a chord which is not a diameter, then if the chord is (a) bisected, it
is also cut at right angles (6) cut at right angles, it is also bisected.
8. The angle at the centre of a circle is double the angle at the circumference standing on the same
arc.
9. Two unequal circles are given in position. Draw as many tangents as you can touching both
circles.
10. Describe an isosceles triangle having each angle at the base double of the vertical angle.
CLASS 1.-GRAMMAR. Saturday, January 4-9-12.
1. To what part of speech do Articles really belong? Give rules, with examples, for the correct use
of a an and the.
2. Define Transitive and Intransitive.
The enemy's fleet bore down
He is gone out
I was told the story by him
Comment on the following examples.
Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself
This wood cuts soft.
3. Comment on the following uses of the genitive
a.
Thy soul's flight
If it find heaven must find it out to-night
b. The deep damnation of his taking off
c. Get on your night gown
d. And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
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