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5. What is meant by the term " tissue" ? Describe all the different kinds of vegetable tissue that you know, giving diagrams. 6. Describe the flowers and ovaries of the wall-flower, the pea, the rose, and the primrose. 7. Describe the process of fertilization in a flowering plant. 8. Why do most living plants give off oxygen when exposed to sunlight; and what are the exceptions to this rule ? 9. Explain fully the distinctions between respiration and transpiration in plants.

Class D.—Geology (Optional). Time allowed: Three hours. 1. How are quartz, felspar, and calcite distinguished from each other, and in what kind of rocks does each occur? 2. What are the differences between surface-soil, alluvium, and rock? 3. Distinguish between sedimentary and eruptive rocks, as to composition, texture, and position. 4. What is meant by the dip and strike of a rock ? 5. Explain the terms " foliation " and " lamination," and state in what rocks these structures are found. 6. Describe the structure and origin of a volcanic mountain. 7. Describe the different effects of sub-aerial and marine denudation. 8. What are the proofs that the sedimentary rocks were formed under water, and how have they become hardened ? 9. What is the origin of coal ? Give reasons for your opinion.

Class D. —Fbench (Optional). Time allowed: Three hours. 1. Before each of the following names of rivers put the appropriate definite article: Shin, Tamise, Moselle, Danube, Tihre, Seine, Mouse, Vistule, Shone, Garonne. 2. Put the following words in the feminine : Jardinier, jumeau, able, inspecteur, chanoine, negre, enchanteur, e'poux, danseur, artiste. 3. Compare some adjective —say, tendre —giving the comparatives of superiority, equality, inferiority; also the superlative relative and a superlative absolute. 4. In indicating the number of a book, a chapter, or a page, what numbers do the French use? 5. How are questions asked when the subject of the verb is a noun ? Example ? Has John learnt his lessons ? 6. Take the verb apercevoir, give its principal parts, and from these form the whole verb, giving the first person singular only, unless where others are necessary to show how the verb is formed. State in what respects verbs of the third conjugation differ from other verbs in the formation of certain tenses. 7. "When is an s put at the end of the second person singular of the imperative ? 8. Take the verb se troinper, and conjugate in full the present indicative affirmatively, the future interrogatively, and the imperative negatively. 9. Conjugate in full il y a. 10. Explain when the preterite definite should be used, and when the preterite indefinite. 11. What difference is there between avant and devant, apres and d'apres, vers and envers ; also between a la ville, dans la ville, and en ville ? 12. What difference is there between chaque and chacun? 13. What are the rules relating to the agreement of adjectives with the word gens? 14. After what words is on generally preceded by V, and when is this V to be omitted though these words precede ? Are words agreeing with on always put in the masculine and singular ? 15. What verb must be used in French in speaking of the weather —as, "It is warm;" "It is fine weather," &c. ? 16. Translate, " The books we have read," comment on the translation, and account for the difference between the English and the French mode of expressing ones-self in such sentences as these. 17. Take the sentence, La juinent s'est cabree et elle s'est casse la jarribe; and explain why the first past participle {cabree) varies, and the second (casse) does not. 18. Which part of the verb is used after prepositions ? There is one exception to the general rule : which is it ? 19. Translate into English— Oberlin ne se borna pas a dire a ses paroissiens cc qu'ils avaient a faire pour ameliorer leur position. Connaissant la repugnance dcs campagnards a se laiaser instruire par dcs gens do la villc, sur dcs clioses qu'ils eroient savoir mieux qu'eux, il rcsolut do precher d'exemple. Dcs champs dependant de la cure se trouvaient places sur dcs sentiers tres-frequentes. II y n't dcs plantations de toute sorte d'arbres fruitiers —poiriers, pommicrs, pruniers, cerisiers—dont il s'etait procure dcs tiges; il y sema aussi dv froment, et il attendit avec impatience le resultat de cettc predication muetto. II ne tarda pas ase montrer ; les passants s'arrfitaient devant les plantations dv pasteur, les consid&raient avee curiosite, en admiraient la belle apparenco, et ponsaient en eux-memes quo leurs champs faisaient bien triste figure a c6te de ceux-la. Us vinrent toua, l'un apres l'autro, demandor a Oberlin comment il s'y prenait pour tirer un si beau produit de terres si steriles. C'est la, quo le bon pasteur les attendait. II ne manqua pas de leur rappeler que, meme par rapport aux clioses exterieures, tout don parfait vient d'en haut, mais il leur fit comprendre aussi l'importance dune activite dirigee par l'mtelligence. On commenca des-lors ii preter I'oreille a ses conseils, et il s'efforca tout d'abord d'ameliorer la- culture dca pommes de terre. Also— La Verite toute nuo A ses yeux vient se presenter Sortit un jour'de son puits. La Fable, richement vetue, Ses attraits par le temps etaient un peu detruits ; Portant plumes et diamants, Jeunea et Yieux fuyaient sa vue : La plupart faux, mais tres-brillants. La pauvre Verite restait la morfondue •" Eh ! tous voila ! bonjour," difc-elle. Sans trouver un asile oil pouvoir habiter. " Que faites-vous ici seule sur un chemin ? " 3—E. la.

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