REMARKABLE EXAMINATION PAPER.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5061, 2 April 1885, Page 1

REMARKABLE EXAMINATION PAPER.

The following extract from an examination paper actually Bent d uring last r ■ year, at a public school of some, standing, to boys, of the age of 12 competing for /: scholarships, was forwarded by/A PriVate Tutor" to the "Standard" —General Intelligence.—Paper 1. ; Explain briefly the terms, democracy, obliga^chyj pluto-I^: cracy, pessimist, anachronism, Swedenborgian, free-trade, reciprocity, Jingoism, verre. 2. Write the names,of six of Sir : W. Scott's novels, and giroa brief account of some of.them.^ ,3; Contra»t vthe^ : acfion of a cow and horae an rising from a recum* ■ , bpnt pasture,, and of the chaffinch arid-X;};■• blackbird'in flying. ;/Why do sheeprbfteii^ t graze on their kneos. 4. We read tnat the^ ;': anchor lost by Columbus in" his third jC royage to the West has'laielybeen dug■•■ up, by a gentleman jn^Ws.^gtede'n-.-.'W'.'-.v;; I- the island ofAutigut. How con Id this be f - I - Mention some faqt connected with each „ of the following names nß**jo MajßK 'spluß, Diogenes, Michael Scot,;^r||^aißojni.-V^':. BaTaillac. Strabo, Iyanthei Terrible]liouis^ ; ' Michel, j 6. Examine the:, ralne of the Btatemerits~(l.) That the sutt-shining pn'V a fire in the grate put 9it put. !;(2.) That ■ a''poker..'thruf:t'intoit;m^keajt;burnVV'.(3:) That a poker pJaced oVer an expiring fire will rerire it. /f4.) That fire barns brighter in frosty weather. i[7:) WJiat is ait patent ? /Mention some. useful, patents. Oau you/hare a paten t for a;:bpok ? What <\ is a patent error ?! (8.) Explain what is " meant by Crusted Port, Al, old Dresden, Alktram, Heirloom; Nepbtism, the surTiral of the fittest, abrasion of the cuticle. .: (9.)' If a shrifelled apple be placed; tinder an air-pump and the air exhausted, the, apple gets plump. Explain particularly how'.this'occurs.:".. -.:< ■•■:■■■;;; ■•: ''-„:(-:':^ •!'■'■■-. .V- v-