No. 16.
CLASS JI.
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HISTORY.
JAMES I WILLIAM III.
1. What was Cromwell's foreign policy during the Commonwealth? How far did it succeed ?
2. What was the cause of the rupture between Charles I and his Parliaments? Give the first and last battles of the Civil War with the leaders on each side and results.
3. What do you know of the Gunpowder Plot ?
4. Give an account of the war with the Dutch during the reign of Charles II.
5. Who were:-Raleigh, John Hampden, Ironsides, Monmouth, The Old Pretender, John Milton ?
6. What do you know of :--Declaration of Breda, Massacre of Glencoe, Ship Money, Hampton Court Conference?
7. Why was James II unpopular? Who succeeded him to the throne,
and what claims had he?
8. What are the chief events in the reign of William III?
No. 17.
HISTORY.
CLASS III.
WILLIAM I TO RICHARD III.
1. What caused the Civil War between Mathilda and Stephen? How was a settlement arrived at ?
2. Give a short account of Richard I.'s adventures in the Holy Land. 3. Give an account of the quarrel between Henry II and Thomas à Becket; how did it end?
4. What was the Great Charter ? When and where was it sigued? What circumstances led to its being drawn up ?
5. When was the first House of Commons established? What led to it, and who was chiefly responsible for its being called together?
6. What do you know of:
Lollards?
7. Who was the "Kingmaker"?
far was it justified?
Domesday Book, Black Death, The
How did he get his title and how
8. What were the Wars of the Roses? Give the first and last battles. How did the war end?
No. 18.
HYGIENE.
CLASS I
1. Explain how it is that a domestic building can be properly ventilated by natural means.
2. Why should lead piping never he used for water and how do waters vary in their action on lead pipes?
3. What are the objects aimed at in the laws which compel in Hong- kong the ground surfaces of domestic buildings to be concreted?
4. Why is the intermittent system of water supply very unsatisfactory ? 5. Explain what is meant by saying that 0.6 volumes per 1,000 of CO, is the permissible limit of impurity in the air of a domestic building.
No. 19.
HYGIENE.
CLASS II,
1. How may the air become contaminated in cities other than by the breathing of animals and the burning of fuel?
2. What is meant by :-
(1) A shallow well?
(2) A deep well?
(3) An Artesian well?
What circumstances may render the water from the last two undrinkable or dangerous?
3. How are foods classified?
Give examples of each class as ordinarily used by
Chinese.
4. What kinds of bedding and night clothes are the best and why?
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