GENERAL EXAMINATION OF TRAINING SCHOOLS.

EASTER, 1851.

HOLY SCRIPTURES.

Three Hours allowed for each Paper.

SECTION. I.-1. State briefly the subject-matter of each book of the Pentateuch.

2. Describe the kingdom of Solomon, with a map.

3. Describe the character of the following kings, and name the chief events in their reigns:-Asa, Jehoshaphat, Uzziah, Ahaz, and Jehoiakim.

SECTION II.-1. Give an account of the prophet Isaiah, and state concisely what knowledge of Christ could be derived from his book.

2. When did these prophets flourish: Hosea, Nahum, Micah, Zephaniah, and Zachariah? State briefly the subject-matter of one of their books.

3. Enumerate the nations which invaded Palestine under the Kings, and quote some of the most remarkable prophecies concerning Edom, Nineveh, and Egypt.

SECTION III.-Prepare the notes of a lesson on

1. The events of the week preceding the crucifixion of our Lord.

2. The different ways in which our Lord answered questions proposed by his disciples, by inquirers, and by cavillers; or,

3. The peculiar characteristics of Christian morals.

SECTION IV.-1. Give the meaning of the following expressions:Kingdom of Heaven; Mercy seat; Atonement; Justification; Nazarite; Proselyte.

2. Give the context and meaning of the following passages :

“Blessed are the poor in spirit."

"For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it."

"Make to yourselves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations."

"For David is not ascended into the heavens; but he saith himself: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool."

SECTION V.-1. State the subject-matter of the first twelve chapters of the Acts of the Apostles.

2. What places in Europe are stated in Scripture to have been visited by St. Paul? To which of them were epistles addressed by him? State fully the subject matter of one of these epistles.

3. Enumerate the companions of St. Paul, and write a full account of one of the most distinguished.

CATECHISM, LITURGY, AND CHURCH HISTORY. SECTION I.-1. Write out the definition of a Sacrament from the Articles and from the Catechism.

2. Show what is the office of Sponsors in the words of the Catechism. 3. What is said in the Catechism concerning the duty and benefit of Prayer, and in what appropriate part of the Catechism does it occur?

SECTION II.-1. Write out the order of the Daily Service for Morning and Evening.

2. Write out three of the Collects for particular Sundays or Holidays, and show their appropriateness.

3. Explain the title " Common Prayer," and give a brief historical account of the Book of Common Prayer, mentioning (a) the sources from which

it was originally compiled, and (b) the changes which it has undergone, with dates.

SECTION III.-1. What is asserted concerning the Church in our Articles? Give proofs and illustrations from Holy Scripture.

2. How far, and on what grounds, is the authority of General Councils recognised in our Articles? Name the first four General Councils, with dates, and give a full account of the earliest.

3. Write out the Article on Justification, and prove it from Scripture. SECTION IV.-1. Give a full account of Augustine's mission, and its consequences.

2. Against what portions of contemporary ecclesiastical doctrine or usage was the English Reformation chiefly directed?

3. Describe the progress of the Reformation in Scotland.

SECTION V.-1. What do you mean by the Eastern and Western Churches? What caused their separation? What nations at this day belong to the Eastern Church?

2. Give a brief historical account of the Huguenots.

3. Explain from history the fact that Holland is at this day a Protestant, and Belgium a Roman Catholic country.

ARITHMETIC.

SECTION 1.-1. Explain as you would to a Class, the Rules for carrying in Addition, and for borrowing in Subtraction.

2. Multiply 971 by 386, and divide the product by 197. Give a reason for each principal step in the process.

3. Explain the system of Notation in ordinary use, and compare the advantages of the common scale with those of any other scale that might be adopted.

SECTION II.-Work one of the following sums as a question in Mental Arithmetic, and explain the process, as you would to a Class :

1. How long will 91. 2s. maintain a poor person who spends 3s. 6d. a-week?

2. What would be the cost of 7 cwt. iqr. 10lb. 8 oz. at 21. 6s. 8d. per cwt.?

3. A corn-dealer buys 50 quarters of oats for 341. 13s. 4d. At how much per bushel must he retail it, in order to gain 25 per cent. by his bargain?

SECTION III.-1. If the rents of a parish amount to 2,340l. 17s. 6d., and a rate of 1377. 10s. 8d. be granted, what sum will be payable upon an estate of which the rental is 1437. 9s. 10d.?

2. If 3 lb. of tea be worth lb. of coffee, and 12 lb. of coffee worth 31 lb. of sugar, what quantity of sugar may be had for a chest of tea weighing 28 lb.? 3. If 248 men, in 5 days of 11 hours each, can dig a trench 230 yards long, 3 wide, and 2 deep, how many yards of a trench, which is 5 feet wide and 5 deep, should be dug by 17 men in 12 hours?

SECTION IV.-1. Write out a rule for finding the least common multiple of two or more numbers.

Add together, 3 + 7 + 1⁄2 + § + 1/4 + 72·

2. Reduce to their most simple forms the fractions,

3. What forms of vulgar fractions are reducible to equivalent terminating decimals? Show that all other fractions may be represented by circulating decimals. Find the fraction equivalent to

⚫34500970097 ·

SECTION V.-1. Extract the square root of 1369 7401, and the cube root of 000,000,042875.

2. What ready money will discharge a debt of 1,3771. 13s. 4d., due 2 years 3 quarters and 25 days hence, allowing discount at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum ?

3. If the length of a rectangular tank be 7 ft. 4 in., the breadth 5 ft. 111⁄2 in., and the depth 4 ft. 7 in., how many gallons of water will it hold, supposing each gallon to measure 2774 cubic inches?

SECTION VI.-1. Set down a Dr. and Cr. account between a grocer and a baker, with five items on each side, and balance it.

2. Explain, as you would to a pupil teacher, the nature of an ordinary partnership, the necessity of keeping a Dr. and Cr. account between each partner and the firm, and the principle upon which the profits should be divided.

3. A. employs a capital of £500 in trade, and at the end of three years takes into partnership B., who advances a capital of £800: four years later, A. and B. are joined by C., with a capital of £1000: at the end of twelve years from the commencement of the concern, they take stock, and find the whole gain to have been £3000. What portion of the profit should be credited to each partner?

MENSURATION.

SECTION I.-1. Show that the area of a rectangle may be represented numerically by the product of two adjacent sides. Find the area of a triangle in terms of any two sides and the included angle.

2. In a square, the area of the inscribed circle is equal to half the area of the circumscribed circle. In a regular hexagon, the former is equal to three-fourths of the latter.

3. A cylindrical cask holds 180 gallons of beer, and the diameter of its end is equal to two-thirds of its height. Find its dimensions—a gallon being equal in volume to 277 cubic inches.

SECTION II.-1. Show how to find the difference of true level between two places at a considerable distance from each other.

Work an example with four intermediate stations.

2. Describe a Theodilite, and show how to survey a field, in the shape of a polygon, by means of the Chain, Cross, and Theodilite.

How are inclined lands measured?

3. The area of a triangular field, A B C, is 11A. 2R. 16P., and one side, A B., is 2374 links long. Divide it into three, by lines parallel to B C, so that the parts may measure respectively 5A., 4A., and 2A. 2R. 16P.

GRAMMAR AND ENGLISH LITERATURE.

SECTION I.-1. Give definitions of a Noun, Verb, Participle, and Adverb, and illustrate them by examples.

2. Give examples of the Participle used as a Noun, an Adjective, and as employed to form the present and past tenses of active and passive Verbs. 3. Enumerate and account for all the different modes in which English Adjectives may be compared, with an example of each.

SECTION II-1. Correct the following sentences and explain their er

rors :

a. Much does human pride and self complacency require correction. b. Mans' happiness or misery are placed in his own hands.

c. From the character of those who you associate with will your own be estimated.

d. Between you and I things will not happen as they expect.

2. Parse the words printed in italics :

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad;

It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it;
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born
I am to learn;

And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,

That I have much ado to know myself.

3. Analyze the construction of the following passage, so as thoroughly to show the connexion of the several clauses :

High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,
Satan exalted sat, by merits rais'd

To that bad eminence; and, from despair
Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires
Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue
Vain war with Heav'n.

SECTION III.-Write a simple paraphrase in prose of the following passage (italics refer to next section)

Whiles that the armed hand doth fight abroad,

The advised head defends itself at home:

For Government, though high, and low, and lower,
Put into parts, doth keep in one concert;
Congreeing in a full and natural close,
Like Music.

Therefore doth Heaven divide

The state of man in divers functions,
Setting endeavour in continual motion;
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
Obedience: for so work the honey bees;
Creatures, that, by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king, and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;

Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,

Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent royal of their emperor :

Who, busied in his majesty, surveys

The singing masons building roofs of gold:
The civil citizen kneeding up the honey;

The poor mechanic porters crowding in
The heavy burthens at his narrow gate;
The sad-eyed justice, with his surly turn,
Delivering o'er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone.

SECTION IV.-Give the derivation and literal meaning of the words printed in italic in the last foregoing passage.

SECTION V.-1. Mention points of comparison between the modern English and Anglo-Saxon languages.

2. State and account for the changes in the English language between the times of Chaucer and Shakspeare.

3. What were the principal literary productions of Lord Bacon-Lord Clarendon-Dryden-Swift-Pope-Addison-Dr. Johnson-Gibbon

Burke ?

Give a full account of one of the works named in your answer.

HISTORY.

SECTION I.-1. When, and under what circumstances, did the Saxons first settle in Britain?

2. How, and at what time, were the Saxon and Norman lines united on the Throne of England, and with what results?

3. Show, as far as you can, traces of the Anglo-Saxon character in the habits and manners of the English; in their dress, houses, and literature. SECTION II-1. State what you have read of the early inhabitants of Wales.

2. Give a short account of the conquest of Wales by Edward I. Mention dates.

3. In what respect has the physical character of Wales influenced the history and social position of its inhabitants? Illustrate your answer with respect both to North and South Wales.

SECTION III.-1. Had the House of York or that of Lancaster the better claim to the Throne? Give reasons.

2. Mention some peculiar instances of cruelty in the Wars of the Roses. 3. What effect on the nation at large did the civil wars of the 15th century produce? Give a few instances.

SECTION IV.-1. Write a short account of the reign of James I.

2. Mention some of the chief events during the course of the Long Parliament.

3. Show, as far as you can, the different circumstances of the people and their rulers under the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns.

SECTION V.-1. Give some account of Philip of Macedon.

2. Write what you know of the early history of Egypt.

3. Show, from general History, that the progress of power has been from the East to the West.

GEOGRAPHY AND POPULAR ASTRONOMY.

SECTION I.-Draw an outline map of one of the following countries: 1. England.

2. Asia Minor, illustrative of the journeys of St. Paul.

3. British India, showing its chief provinces and cities.

SECTION II.-1. What counties border on Staffordshire; and what are separated from one another by the Thames?

2. What counties are separated by the Frith of Forth.

3. What other countries lie between the same parallels of latitude as Great Britain? In what respects do their climates differ from ours, and why? SECTION III.-1. Name the principal countries of the Torrid Zone.

2. Name the chief West India Islands, the Ionian Islands, and the principal groups of Islands in the Pacific.

3. What are the provinces of Austria, and what are their chief cities? By what different races of men are they inhabited?

SECTION IV.-1. What chief articles of commerce come to us from between the Equator and the latitude of the Straits of Gibraltar, what from thence to the latitude of London, and what from north of that latitude?

2. What influence has the elevation of a country above the sea level, on its climate and productions? Give examples of this.

3. Why does more rain fall on the West than on the East coast of England? Name some rainless and some riverless districts of the world. There is a remarkably fertile country where it rarely or never rains; name that country and account for its fertility.