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Class VIII. A.
(Translate the first part only. End with the word "hive.")
The bees are at work. They have been up a long time. Make haste, that we may go and watch them near the hive. It is good for you and for me to rise with the sun, and the birds, and the bees. Now, kneel down, and thank God that He has kept you all through the night. Ask him to bless you, and keep you safe all day long.
Class VIII. B.C.
(Translate the first part only.
End with the words "one, two, three."
This is the tree where the bird has its nest. Let us look in it now. Here it is. I can see three young ones in it-one, two, three. How soft and warm they are! We may look at them, but we must not take them out.
SHAKSPEARE.-HENRY V. Class I.
1. What is Shakspeare's authority for the historical events of this play?
2. State briefly, in your own words, the argument of the Archbishop of Canterbury in support of
Henry's claim to the French throne. Add your opinion as to its validity.
3. Explain the allusions in the following passages:→
Within this wooden ().
Assume the port of Mars.
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose.
I am not Barbason, you cannot conjure me.
That can be with a nimble galliard won.
Figo for thy friendship.
4. State the meaning of--
scambling, lazars, crescive, gloze, intendment, miscreate.
And the sense in this play of-
executors, marches, exhale, tike, noble.
5. Who were Nym, Bardolph, Bates? What do you know about Falstaff from other plays of Shaks-
peare ?
6. Henry V. has been called "Conqueror of others and of himself.”
more apt quotations from the play.
or
By an estimate, in your own words, of the King's character.
Illustrate this saying by one or
GENERAL INFORMATION.
Answer briefly, writing not more than four lines on each question.
1. What is Constitutional History?
2. Who wrote The Pickwick Papers, The Waverley Novels, Hamlet, The Odyssey ? 3. What is the Encyclopædia Britannica?
4. What are the Public Newspapers in Hongkong, and by whom are they edited?
5. What do you understand by "Western Civilisation"?
6. Whence is the Hongkong Regiment recruited?
7. What is "Municipal Government"?
8. What do you mean by "Phonetic Spelling"?
9. Of what different nationalities are the Policemen in Hongkong?
10. What do you understand by Plaintiff and Defendant?
11. What is Thunder ? and what is a Rainbow ?
12. How could you tell the time of day without a watch or clock ?
13. How could the water supply of Hongkong he increased?
14. What is the latitude of Hongkong, and of the South Pole?
15. A certain relationship exists between the three numbers in each of the following groups 3, 4, 5
and 5, 12, 13. What is it? Write down another similar group.
16. Who is the "Hero of a hundred centuries"?
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