Answer all the questions:

1. Correct any errors in the following sentences. Give reasons for the changes you make.
   1. The man whom she thought was her cousin was not.
   2. After digging for some weeks longer, another strata was discovered.
   3. Seating myself by the fire, which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.
   4. To the right of this monument stands the City Hall, a building of granite, and a few more structures of less importance.
   5. 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:
   1. I _____ be glad to do it.
   2. I _____ gladly do it.
   3. If the school year is shortened, we _____ find that less work is accomplished.
   4. _____ you take my book, or _____ you be able to do without one?
3. Define the following expressions: predicate, passive voice, intransitive, possessive, superlative.

II

Answer three questions:

1. Describe the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius in the Fourth Act of Julius CÆsar. 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 title-character in The Princess.

III

Answer all the questions:

1Explain 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.

2Scan the last two lines in the second passage 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.

3What does Macaulay say of Addison as a satirist?

(1907)

I

1 Decline the personal pronouns.

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 pronoun, 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 mediÆval 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 passages from Il Penseroso:
   1. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.
   2. 'Less Philomel will deign a song.
   3. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuskan bold.
   4. Storied windows richly dight.
2. Give some account of Johnson's works.
3. Who were Garrick, Reynolds, Burke, and Boswell?
4. In what form were Macaulay's Essays first published?
5. From what source did Shakespeare take most of the material for Julius CÆsar?