Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Part 29

(1905)

I

_Answer all the questions:_

1 Correct any errors in the following sentences. Give reasons for the changes you make.

_a_ The man whom she thought was her cousin was not.

_b_ After digging for some weeks longer, another strata was discovered.

_c_ Seating myself by the fire, which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.

_d_ To the right of this monument stands the City Hall, a building of granite, and a few more structures of less importance.

_e_ The tire was cut all the width and was caused by a wood-chopper who placed an axe beneath the tire.

2 Insert the proper forms (shall or will) in the following sentences:

_a_ I be glad to do it.

_b_ I gladly do it.

_c_ If the school year is shortened, we find that less work is accomplished.

_d_ you take my book, or you be able to do without one?

3 Define the following expressions: predicate, pa.s.sive voice, intransitive, possessive, superlative.

II

_Answer three questions:_

1 Describe the quarrel between Brutus and Ca.s.sius in the Fourth Act of _Julius Caesar_. What characteristics of each does the quarrel reveal?

2 Narrate the adventures of Moses at the fair in _The Vicar of Wakefield_.

3 Where does Carlyle place the responsibility for the misfortunes of Burns?

4 Sketch the life of Lowell.

5 Describe the change which came over the t.i.tle-character in _The Princess_.

III

_Answer all the questions:_

1 Explain words in italics.

The English power is near, led on by Malcolm, His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff: Revenges burn in them; for their _dear_ causes Would to the bleeding and the grim _alarm_ Excite the _mortified_ man.

Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the _monstrous_ world; Or whether thou, _to our moist vows denied_, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where _the great Vision of the guarded mount_ Looks toward _Namancos_ and _Bayona's hold_.

2 Scan the last two lines in the second pa.s.sage above, as they would be read naturally. Name the feet in the first of the two lines, and give the metrical name for the second line as a whole.

3 What does Macaulay say of Addison as a satirist?

(1907)

I

1 Decline the personal p.r.o.nouns.

2 Give the preterites and past participles of the following verbs: lie, lay, sit, set, raise, rise, dive.

3 Give the plurals of the following nouns: spoonful, Mussulman, mother-in-law, series, sheep, alumnus, prospectus.

4 Give the case, number and construction of each noun and p.r.o.noun, and the mood, tense, voice and construction of each verb in the following sentence: If, in short, a writer sincerely wishes to communicate to another mind what is in his own mind, he will choose that one of two or more words equally in good use which expresses his meaning as fully as it is within the power of language to express it.

II

_Write carefully prepared themes, about two pages in length, on two of the following topics:_

1 A mediaeval tournament.

2 The career and character of Lancelot.

3 The outlaws in _Ivanhoe_.

4 Goldsmith's early life.

5 The death of Banquo.

6 Literary life in England in the eighteenth century.

III

_Answer all the questions:_

1 Explain the italicized words in the following pa.s.sages from _Il Penseroso:_