my _candles_, and the wind my _friend_.

(Autumn, 1907)

_State:_

1 At what school you studied English.
2 Under whose instruction.
3 For how long.
4 The text-books used.

A--Composition and Rhetoric

1 Write, first making an outline, on _two_ of the following topics:

_a_ Was Portia a lovable character--a girl who would
make a good wife?

_b_ The story of Lancelot and Elaine.

_c_ Johnson and Goldsmith.

_d_ Macaulay's ideas of the Puritans and of King Charles I.

_e_ High-school fraternities.

_f_ The town I like best.

2 Explain the principle of _coherence_, and show how, from sentence
to sentence, you have made the coherence plain in your two foregoing
compositions.

3 Define and give synonyms for the following words: _passive_,
_taunt_, _sanguine_, _affect_, _fix_, _stingy_. Be equally careful
about the truth and the form of your definitions.

4 Give, in a sentence of 30 words or more, three examples of
parallel constructions.

B--Literature

1 Who wrote: _The Faerie Queene_, _Rasselas_, _Treasure land_, _Vanity
Fair_, _Tintern Abbey_, _Love's Labor's Lost_, _Robinson Crusoe_,
_Locksley Hall_?

2 What becomes of _Fleance_? of _Rebecca, the Jewess_? of _Cassius_? of
_Gareth_? of _Godfrey Cass_? What was the result of Burke's speech on
Conciliation?

3 Locate and explain the following passages:

_a_ Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears.

_b_ Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as warbled to the string
Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek,
And made Hell grant what love did seek.

_c_ He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.

_d_ I am a soldier, I,
Older in practice, abler than yourself
To make conditions.

_e_ The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath.

BROWN UNIVERSITY

(1905)

I

_Answer all the questions:_

1 Correct any errors in the following sentences. Give reasons for the
changes you make.

_a_ The man whom she thought was her cousin was not.

_b_ After digging for some weeks longer, another strata was
discovered.

_c_ Seating myself by the fire, which my odious companion had
lighted, he thus began his tale.

_d_ To the right of this monument stands the City Hall, a building
of granite, and a few more structures of less importance.

_e_ The tire was cut all th