e 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:

_a_ I be glad to do it.

_b_ I gladly do it.

_c_ If the school year is shortened, we find that
less work is accomplished.

_d_ 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 Caesar_. 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:_

1 Explain 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_.

2 Scan 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.

3 What 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