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Class D.—Geology (optional). Thursday, April Ist. — Morning, 10 "to 1. 1. What are the principal agencies by which rocks are weathered ? State how they act. 2. Explain the origin of surface springs in hilly districts. 3. Explain the origin of the terminal moraine of a glacier. 4. What are the reasons for supposing that the interior of the earth is intensely hot ? 5. Give an account, of the action of subaerial denudation. 6. Of what minerals is granite composed, and how are they distinguished from each other? 7. Fossil shells are often found in the middle of a mass of sandstone. How did they get there ? 8. Explain the origin of volcanic tuff. Class D.—French (optional). Monday, March 29th, — Morning, 10 to 1. [Note. —Of the twenty questions in grammar, candidates need not answer more than fifteen.] 1. There are about twenty substantives in French which form their feminine in esse: give ten of these. 2. Account for the fact that some substantives ending in al take an s in the plural, while others change al into aux. 3. From the following substantives form other substantives: Plume, marquis, bouche, pomme, colonne. 4. Give the feminine of the following adjectives: Sot, aiders, replet, faux, bref, sec, frais, caduc, grec, favori. 5. From the following words form adjectives : Courage, mensonge, fourche, age, gris, vieil, maigre, penser, comparer, piller. 6. What change takes place before a mute syllable in verbs having an e mute in the penultimate, such as mener, lever, &c. ? 7. Explain the difference between beni and benit, also between fleurissant and florissant. 8. Give the first person singular of the present indicative of the following verbs: Acquerir, bouillir, courir, mentir, mourir, asseoir, mouvoir, savoir, boire, croitre. 9. Erom the following adjectives what verbs may be formed: Jaime, bleu, gris, grand, maigre? 10. II est doux de voir les enfants aimant leur mere. Les enfants sont aimants. Explain why aimant in the above sentences has no s in the one case, and is written with an s in the other case. 11. When do proper names take the mark of the plural, and under what circumstances do they not do so ? 12. Translate into French — Both of them. None of them. Either one or the other. Neither one nor the other. 13. Translate into French — What I do not like is this great delay. What a charming person ! . ■ What are you thinking of? What do you think of our new master ? What is the matter with you? 14. Give the several meanings in English of the word quelque, and explain its inflections. 15. Explain the difference between apres and d'apres, de travers and en travers, de suite and tout da suite, toutefois and toutcs lesfois, a midi and au midi de. 16. Of what gender are the following words : Enfant, Pdques, chose, osuvre, orye ? 17. Which article is used in French before names of measure, weight, and number? Give au example of each of these in French. 18. Translate into French—A glass of water, a dining-room, a coal-merchant, a summer-dress, a water-bottle. 19. Write some French feminine nouns before which grand' is used instead of grande. State the origin of this anomaly. 20. Translate the following French words into English, and English words into French :— Un holier, untuieur, la lecture, un plat, une ride; a scholar, a tutor, the lecture, a plate, a ride. 21. Translate into English— Moliere. C'est une opinionc recue que les comedies de Moliere surpassent les meilleurs ouvrages de . ce genre chez les angiens, et Voltaire le nomine le meilleur poete comique qui ait jamais existe. La fertilite de son penie est etonnante; il passa la plus grande partie do sa vie a ecrire des comedies, tant en rose qu'en vers, qui furent tres-applaudies. II est a regretter qu'il ait tant neglige les inoe urs dans ses productions, et qu'il n'ait pas enseigne ce qu'il pratiquait dans sa vie privee. Les qualites de son cceur etaient vraiment estimables; il etait doux, sensible, genereux, et jouissait d'une estime universelle. Ses talents n'etaient pas bornes ala composition, car il etait aussi excellent acteur. Sa derniere comedie fut le Malacle imaginaire; pendant que Moliere jouait le role principal de cette piece, et qu'il contrefaisait le mort, il fut saisi d'une indisposition, dont il niourut le jour suivant. Ce poete illustre, l'une de nos plus belles gloires litteraires, ne fut pas de l'Academie Franfaise ; mais pres de cent ans apres sa mort, en 1778, les academiciens, jaloux de reparer, autant qu'il etait en eux, I'injuste oubli ou le ridicule dedain de leurs devanciers, firent placer dans le lieu des seances de l'academie le buste de Moliere, au bas duquel ils inscrivirent ce vers aussi juste que delicat: Eien ne manque il ea gloire ; il manquait a la n6tre.