Some of the Tests we had to take
Divinity Annual Examination 1956 First Forms (1.5 hours)
TIME 1 AND A HALF HOURS
ANSWER QUESTION ONE AND ANY THREE OTHERS, REMEMBERING THAT NUMBERS 2-6 REQUIRE LONG ESSAYS OF AT LEAST ONE SIDE OR TWO OF YOUR PAPER.
1.
a) Name one Roman Governor of Judea.
b) Explain the word Messiah, and say what it meant to the Jews.
c) Write briefly on the SHEMA.
d) Why did John the Baptist come?
e) Name 4 of Jesus' disciples.
f) What did Jesus say when the centurion sent to say that Jesus need only say the word to heal his servant?
g) Write briefly on the meaning of the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
h) Mention 3 occasions....by name only....when Jesus met opposition.
i) Why did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a colt?
2) Pretend that you are Joseph, and tell the story of how Mary was told about the coming of Jesus, and of the night at the Inn in Bethlehem when Jesus was born.
3) Retell the story of the healing of the paralysed man whose 4 friends took him to Jesus.
4) Write out the following stories which Jesus told: The Sower and the Seed, The Weeds and the Wheat, the Hidden Treasure, and The Parable of the Talents.
5) Imagine that you are a friend of Jairus, and tell of the illness of his daughter, your search with Jairus for Jesus, the long wait, and the miracle.
6) You are a BBC Commentator. Give a running commentary on the visit of Jesus to Jericho, describing in considerable detail His meeting with Zacchaeus. Don't forget to take your microphone to give some actual conversations in Zacchaeus' house.
G.R.B. (Mr. Burnett?)
The test at the top of the page was taken in 1956.
Why not have a go now and see how you do today?
Test from Sheila Kelsall
English Language Annual Examination 1956 First Forms
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
QUESTION 1. READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE CAREFULLY AND THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:
The carrier's horse was the laziest horse in the world, I should hope and shuffled along, with his head down, as if he liked to keep people waiting to whom the packages were directed. I fancied, indeed, that he sometimes chuckled audibly over this reflection, but the carrier said he was afflicted with a cough. The carrier had a way of keeping his head down, like his horse, and of drooping sleepily forward as he drove, with one of his arms on each of his knees. I say "drove", but it struck me that the cart would have gone to Yarmouth quite as well without him, for the horse did all that, and as to conversation, he had no idea of it but whistling. We made so many deviations up and down lanes, and were such a long time delivering a bedstead at a public-house, and calling at other places, that I was quite tired, and very glad, when we saw Yarmouth. It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat, But I reflected that Yarmouth might be situated at one of the poles; which would account for that.
(Dickens - "David Copperfield")
(i) Write out a short title for this passage.
(ii) This passage was written in three paragraphs. Show where you think the divisions should be and write a short title for each paragraph.
(iii) Describe in your own words as far as possible:
(a) The carrier's horse
(b) The carrier
(iv) Why does Dickens say in the first sentence "I should hope" and not "I should think"?
(v) Explain fully why they were so long in reaching Yarmouth.
(vi) In what kind of country does Yarmouth seem to stand? Give reasons from the passage for your answer.
(vii) Give the meaning of the following words as they are used in the passage:
chuckled, audibly, reflection, deviation, spongy, waste.
QUESTION 2. Write a composition (about a page) on ONE of the following subjects:
a) Write a speech for a debate (either as Proposer or as Opposer) on the motion "That games are a waste of time".
b) Write a talk to be given to your form on your favourite hobby.
c) The month of March, 1956.
d) The coal-mine.
e) Things I hate.
f) It was a wonderful day.
QUESTION 3. Analyse the following sentences ( in columns):
1. Seldom does he sing that song correctly.
2. How easily he won the race!
3. Where did you find my book?
4. The table he made very skilfully in one week.
5. Stop that noise immediately.
QUESTION 4. Making slight alterations and additions where necessary, write one sentence to give the meaning of each of the following groups of sentences. That is, write one sentence in answer to (a), and one sentence in answer to (b). Do not use 'and' or 'but'
(a) Tears blinded him. He stumbled across the field. Eventually he came to a stile.
(b) He looked out of the dirty window. He saw an old beggar. The old beggar was picking up cigarette-ends from the gutter.
QUESTION 5. Pick out from the following sentences:
(a) An Abstract Noun
(b) A Common Noun
(c) A Proper Noun
(d) A Co11ective noun
(e) A Pronoun
(f) Two Adjectives
(g) An Adverb
(h) A Conjunction
(i) A verb used intransitively
(j) A verb used transitively
(k) A Noun used as subject
(l) A noun used as object.
Leaving the flock, the wolf attacked the boy, but, with great courage, John waited. Fiercely he struck the animal with his staff.
QUESTION 6
Give ONE word to convey the meaning of each of the following:
a) Able to be seen;
b) To caper like a lamb;
c) A person who writes the life of someone;
d) A person who writes plays (not 'author');
e) The opposite of sympathetic.
QUESTION 7 Give the number, person and gender of the following pronouns:
(i) it,
(ii) we,
(iii) them,
(iv) he,
(v) me.
Why not have a go now and see how you do today?
Test from Jean Tallett
Geometry Annual Examination 1956 First Forms (Text)
1. What is the geometrical name for the following solids:-
a) A Dunces Cap b) A House brick c) A Tennis Ball d) A Swiss Roll e) A Penny
2. What is a) an Equilateral Triangle. b) Scalene Triangle c) Pentagon d) Polygon e) Hypotenuse
3. Draw the parallel lines OK, MN. Mark them to indicate that they are parallel. Draw the line YX across them and name it. Make a list of the sizes of (a) (b) (c) (d) (f) (g) and give reasons.
4. (a) What is the size of angle X? (b) What is the size of angle A? (c) What is the size of angle ACD, and what is its name in relating to the triangle?
5. What is meant by two triangles being congruent? For each of the examples given below draw two triangles ABC, XYZ, and mark the given facts on the triangles. State in each case, in the proper way, whether the triangles are congruent and state why.
(1) AB=XY. BC=YZ. CA=ZX.
(2) AB=YZ. BC=ZX. Angle B = Angle Z.
(3) Angle A = Angle Z. Angle B = Angle Y. AB=XY
6. Using only ruler and compasses,draw a triangle ABC with AB=7cms. BC=6cms, AC=5cms. Measure angle ABC with a protractor and put it in your figure. Bisect angle ACB and let the bisector cut AB at Y. Measure CY in cms. Write it on the figure.
7. A man stands 15 yards from the foot of a flagpole. The angle of elevation to the top of the pole is 35 degrees. Find by means of a scale drawing the height of the flagpole. (Take 1 inch to represent 5 yards)
8. A ship steams out of port due south for 10 miles. It then turns east and steams for 20 miles. Draw the journey it has made and state the bearing of the port from her final position. (Scale 1 inch represents 5 miles)
9. Give with reasons the size of angles (a) (b) (c)
10. What are the sizes of the following angles. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h)
Test from Sheila Kelsall
4th Form RK Test 1952
Document from Geoff Govier. Thank you, Geoff.
Click on the file at the bottom of the page.
Chemistry Annual Examination 1958 Third Forms (1.5 hours)
Section A answer all questions in this Section, spending about 30 minutes on the entire Section
Al. Name (a) one basic oxide, (b) one acidic gas, (c) one non-metallic element, (d) one alkali, (e) one salt which contains water of crystallization.
A2, State whether each of the following is on element, a mixture or a compound:
(a) potassium chlorate, (b) iron, (c) brass, (a) sulphuric acid (conc.) (e) hydrogen,
A3. State two differences between metals and non-metals
A4. Describe two ways in which you could distinguish between an acid and an alkali.
A5. (a) Name two substances which on heating give oxygen.
(b) Name two metals which will dissolve in dilute sulphuric acid.
A6. Powdered charcoal and copper oxide are both black powders, What chemical test would you apply to distinguish between them?
A7. If you had three unlabelled bottles containing respectively copper sulphate, sodium chloride and calcium carbonate, how could you distinguish between them using physical means only?
A8. How could you obtain a specimen of pure sulphur from a mixture of magnesium powder and sulphur?
Section B
Answer three questions. Marks will be given for clear labelled diagrams.
B9. How would you prepare several gas jars of oxygen in the laboratory?
(You need not describe anything which is clearly shown in your drawing)
What is the purpose of a catalyst in a reaction?
State two uses of oxygen.
B10. Give a detailed description of how you would obtain a pure crystalline specimen of copper sulphate starting from copper oxide.
B11. Describe an experiment to show that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen. State two physical and two chemical properties of water.
B12. Name and describe four classes into which oxides may be divided. Give the name of one oxide belonging to each class.
B13. Define (a) and acid, (b) a base, (c) a salt,
What is the name given to a soluble base ?
Give the names of
(i) an acid other than those found on the chemistry lab. bench,
(ii) two insoluble bases,
(iii) two soluble salts,
(iv) two insoluble salts,
(v) What is meant by the term "double decomposition"?
Why not have a go now and see how you do today?
Test from Jean Tallett
Latin Annual Examination 1958 Third Forms (1.5 hours)
1. Decline in the singular:
a. gravius onus
b. hic impetus
c. idem caput
plural
d. quidam vir
e. ille latro.
2. Give the comparative and superlative of the following:
celeriter, malus, facilis, magnus.
3. Translate
a. Nonne ignoratis?
b. Quotiens?
c. Aut tu aut ego.
d. Alius senis.
e. Sit noster dux!
f. Pueri ipsi.
4. Translate
a. As often as possible.
b. Let them stay.
c. For four years.
d. He hurried home.
e. Much more wisely.
f. Don't sit down (pl).
5. Translate
a. Who was the man by whom we were blamed yesterday?
b. Will you stay at home or will you come with me to the games?
c. The robbers marched to the general's city to find his booty.
d. Since this was so, we all left our school.
e. Be quiet, children! How many oxen will you count in order to sleep?
f. On the eighth day, the guards will shut the gates which we opened.
g. By whose help did he do his work? Surely the master helped him, didn't he?
6. Translate the Latin passage into English.
The Gauls, having attacked the city of Rome, besiege the citadel but are unable to capture it.
Galli, ubi paucos dics in urbe manserunt ut praedam e templis domibusque maximam compararent, tandem in arcem impetum fecerunt. Prima luce omnes in forum iterum convenerunt; deinde magno clamore ad collem contenderunt. Romani tamen, cum fortiter pugnarent, eos vicerunt. Cum igitur, nulla victoriae spes esset eo die, Galli obsidionem paraverunt. Mox in periculo ingenti arx erat. Galli enim ipsi viam quae ad arcem ducebat, invenerant et collem nocte ascenderunt. Custodes Romani nihil audiverunt; ne canes quidem excitati sunt, sod erant in arce anseres quidam, deae sacri, qui signum Romanis dederunt.
obsidio - ionis (fem.) siege
ascendo - ere ascendi to climb.
anser anseris (masc.) goose.
Why not have a go now and see how you do today?
Test from Jean Tallett
What use do you think Latin has been to you?
My apologies for any errors. It has been a long time.
Dave
History Forms 4 A, T, and G Summer 1956 and 1959
1956
Time---1½ Hours
Answer questions 1, and 2, and any other TWO.
1. Give a brief account of the life and achievements of each of THREE of the following :-
Daniel O'Connell
Lord Shaftesbury (7th Earl)
Robert Owen
Joseph Chamberlain.
2. Give the facts and explain the importance of THREE of the following :-
The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834.
The People's Charter.
The Oxford Movement.
The Uitlanders.
The Taff Vale Case.
3. What were the main reasons for the discontent of the working classes 1815 - 1820 and how did the Government deal with it?
4. Why did the pre - 1832 House of Commons need reforming and how far did the 1832 Reform Act meet the need?
5. What arguments were used in support of Free Trade? Describe Peel's part in developing a Free Trade policy.
6. Describe the main domestic reforms (excluding those dealing with Ireland) of Gladstone's 1868 - 1874 Ministry.
7. Explain the causes of the Liberal Government's struggle with the House of Lords from 1906 and describe how the struggle ended.
Now here is the same History end of Fourth Year Exam set three years later....compare the two...This is probably the first and only time these two examinations have ever appeared together.
History Form 4A Time ----1½ Hours Summer 1959
Time ----1½ Hours
Spend about half an hour over each question.
Marks for Question One = 24,
Question Two................= 24,
Question Three............. = 20.
A further 2 marks will be added for good English.
1. Write a brief comment (not more than five lines each) on EIGHT of the following :-
a. "Peterloo"
b. A sliding scale of duties.
c. The Tolpuddle Martyrs.
d. A "Union" workhouse.
e. A Municipal Corporation.
f. Child labour in mines
g. A Board School.
h. Penny Postage.
i. Army Commissions
j. A ballot paper
k. Boycott.
l. Old Age Pensions.
2. Choose FOUR of the following people and write an account of their careers and importance :-
Richard Trevithic
Robert Owen
William Huskisson
Robert Peel (as Home Secretary only)
Daniel O'Connell
Lord Shaftesbury
Queen Victoria
Parnell
Mrs. Pankhurst.
3. Write a detailed essay - type answer to ONE OF THE FOLLOWING :-
i. Describe the main reforms in EITHER Peel's Ministry, 1841 - 1846, OR Disraeli's Ministry, 1874 - 80. Explain the importance of each reform.
ii. Why was Ireland such a problem for British Governments in the nineteenth century, and what attempts were made to overcome the problem?
iii. What important changes have taken place in
a) Parliamentary Representaton,
b) Education,
c) Trade Unions and
d) schemes of social insurance in the years since 1900?
iv) Describe in detail the struggle between the Liberals and the House of Lords in the early years of the present century.
Sheila K.
