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114 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND FEBRUARY, 1889.

3. What are the striking physical features of Holland? What great change has taken place in these? What effect has the nature of the country on the national produce? What foreign possessions has Holland?

4. What do you know of the following. Basques, Danes, Dutch, Fins, Magyars, Poles?

5. Where are the following mountain ranges Caucasus, Dovrefeld, Valdai, Vosges? Give the names

and position of the chief Alpine Passes.

6. What great changes have taken place in the political geography of the German Empire within the

last quarter of a century?

7. Which Sen in the world contains the saltest water? Which European sea has the least salt, and

why? What and where are the highest temperatures of surface water?

8. Give the position, size and greatest depth of the Pacific Ocean. Describe the nature and direction

of its Currents.

CLASS 1.—MENSURATION.. Tuesday, 9-12.

1. The area of a triangular field is 2304 sq. yds. and the sides are in the ratio 9: 10: 17, find their

length.

2. The sides of an isosceles triangle are a. a. b. find the area.

3. An equilateral triangle of grass is inscribed in a circle of 12 ft. diameter, the segments of the circle

being filled with mosaic work. Find the area of the mosaic work in square feet.

4. The slant height of a right cone is 10 in. and the circumference of the base is 37 6992 in. find the

volume.

5. Find the surface of a sphere, if the circumference of its great circle is 44 inches.

6. A field in the form of a parallelogram, whose base measures 110 yards, contains 1 acre; find the

height.

7. Compare the volumes of two spheres, whose radii are in the proportion 6: 7.

8. Shew how to find the area of a regular octagon inscribed in a circle whose radius is one foot.

CLASS 1.-GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Tuesday, 2-4.30.

1. Give reasons why one of the following problems is practicable, and the other not.

A certain number of men do a job in 5 days; how long will 7 men take over a job twice as big? A certain number of men do a job in 5 days; how long will twice the number of men take over it?

2. Insert the suitable preposition in each of the following

-what did he rely? -whom did he confide?,

what did he go in search?

---what did he risk his life?

-whose mercy did he throw himself? -whose intercession did he escape.

3. Write a short letter asking leave of absence, stating reason,

4. Classify the different forms of national government in the world giving the names of some important

nations under each heading.

5. What features in Canton city strike a European, and what features in Hongkong strike a Chinese

stranger.

6. Quote from the Chinese Classics famous maxims on the duty of unselfishness.

7. From what books are the following, quotations? Give the context in English.

殷身此地

進銳退速

鹿臺之財

CLASS I-HISTORY. Wednesday, 9-12.

1. What was Henry VIII's Continental policy? Was it successful?

2. Who were Cabot, Campeggio, Caxton, Colet, Drake, Erasmus, Latimer, Pole?

3. Give with particulars the fate of each of the Protectors during Edward VI's reign.

4. On what grounds was the claim of Lady Jane Grey set forth? Why was she beheaded?

5. Write a short life of Mary, Queen of Scots.

6. Why had the Tudors greater despotic power than any other English dynasty? Sketch very briefly

the characteristics of each Tudor monarch.

7. State the origin of the College at Douay.

8. Explain the terms, Annates, Bull, Convocation, Diet, Morton's Fork, and Poyning's Law,