THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND FEBRUARY, 1889.
6. Describe briefly in your own words, the grief of Constance after Arthur was taken prisoner. 7. Paraphrase
A greater power than we denies all this; And till it be undoubted, we do lock
Our former scruple in our strong-barred gates Kinged of our fears, until our fears resolved Be by some certain king purged and deposed.
Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds That here come sacrifices for the field.
CLASS I GRAMMAR. Saturday, 9-12.
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1. Give examples of the different ways in which the long vowel sound is spelt in English. 2. What is an Abstract Noun. Give examples of some of the chief terminations of Abstract Nouns, classifying them. Give instances from Shakespeare's King John of abstract nouns used for
concrete.
3. What is the Infinitive Mood, why is it so called? Give examples of how the Infinitive Mood can
be used in the following relations as Noun, Adjective, Adverb.
4. What is meant by Subjective and Objective Genitive?
5. What is the force of the prefixes in and re? Give example of the way in which in is modified in
composition.
6. Explain the terms,
Metaphor; Oxymoron; Asyndeton; Pregnant Construction.
7. Analyse. Lo in this right hand, whose protection
Is most divinely vowed upon the right
Of him it holds, stands young Plantagenet,
Son to the elder brother of this man,
And king o'er him and all that he enjoys.
8. Parse fully the words in Italics.
Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose Subjected tribute to commanding love. Against whose fury and unmatched force. The aweless lion could not wage the fight.
CLASS I
EUCLID I-IV. Monday, 9-12.
1. Bisect a given straight line.
2. All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles are equal to twice
as many right angles as the figure has sides.
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3. In any right angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the
sides containing the right angle.
4. Prove that the parallelograms about the diagonals of a square are themselves squares.
5. In every triangle the square on the side subtending an acute angle is less than the squares on the sides containing that angle, by twice the rectangle contained by either of these sides and the straight line intercepted between the perpendicular let fall on it from the opposite angle, and the acute angle.
6. Make, without proof, geometrical figures to shew value of
✓ 13. x2 x2-y a: bbc
7. A straight line AB is given equal to the required
unlimited length making a given angle with AB. one angle, and AD a part of AB one side.
as a line.
a rectangle. ,. figures.
perimeter of a triangle; at A is a line AC of Construct the triangle so that BAC shall be
8. On the same straight line and on the same side of it there cannot be two similar segments of circles
which do not coincide.
9. If from a point without a circle two straight lines be drawn one of which cuts the circle and the other touches it; the rectangle contained by the whole line which cuts the circle and the part of it without the circle shall be equal to the square on the line which touches it.
10. In a given circle inscribe a triangle equiangular to a given triangle.
CLASS I-GEOGRAPHY. Monday, 2-4-30.
1. What do you know of the following. Alhambra, Byzantium, Campana, Pompeii, Riviera, Steppes,
Syracuse, Vatican.
2. Classify the countries of Europe by (1) race (2) religion and (3) language.
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