153. Who was the first Governor under the Constitution of the State? 154. Who was the first Governor under the Constitution of 1838? 155. Name the Pennsylvania soldiers of the Revolution who were presidents of the Continental Congress. 156. Give a short history of General Arthur St. Clair. Give a brief history of Henry C. Hikok. Of J. P. Wickersham. Constitution of Pennsylvania. 1. What is the Constitution of Pennsylvania? 2. Give some account of the making of the Constitution. 3. What constitutes the Legislative Department of our State Government? 4. What officers constitute the Executive Department? 5. What officer is Supreme Executive ? 6. State the provisions of the Constitution concerning the following-named officers, with respect to qualifications, how chosen, term of service, and principal duties, viz.: Member of the House, Senator, Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Attorney General, Auditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Judge of the Supreme Court, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. 7. What officers compose the Board of Pardons? 8. Of how many members is the House of Representatives composed? 9. How many Senators? 10. State in what legislative, senatorial, and judicial district you reside. 11. Name the principal county officers, the principal township or ward officers. 12. Give the qualifications of a voter. 13. Can persons who are not voters hold office? 14. What is the process of naturalization? 15. Distinguish between a citizen and a voter. 16. When does the general election for State and county officers take place? 17. When does the election for township, borough, and city officers take place? 18. What is the use of habeas corpus; and what is provided with respect to it? 19. Describe the process of legislation by which a bill becomes a law. 20. What is necessary that a town may become a city? A town a borough? 21. Give the process of amending the Constitution. 22. What do you mean by preamble, and why does not the Constitution of Pennsylvania begin as the Constitution of the United States? 23. When was the present organization of the State government planned and adopted ? 24. What do you mean by the Supreme Executive Council? 25. State when the Constitution of the State was amended. 1. Distinguish between English literature and American. literature. 2. What do you mean by the literature of a country? 3. What is literature, and what does the term mean? 4. In how many forms does literature exist? 5. Define poetry, and name the kinds of poetry. 6. Distinguish between an epic and a narrative poem. 7. Give examples of epic poems; of narrative poems. 8. Distinguish between didactic and pastoral poetry. 9. Distinguish between dramatic and humorous poetry. 10. Distinguish between lyric and elegiac poetry. 11. Give examples of didactic poetry; of pastoral poetry. 12. Give examples of humorous poetry; of dramatic poetry. 13. Give examples of lyric poetry; of elegiac poetry. 14. Recite a brief extract from Milton's Paradise Lost. 15. Recite a brief extract from Tennyson's Enoch Arden. 16. Recite a brief extract from Gray's Elegy. 17. Recite an extract from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 18. Recite a brief extract from Cowper's John Gilpin. 19. Recite extracts from Shakespeare's Hamlet. 20. Recite extracts from Pope's Essay on Man. 21. Recite an extract from Bryant's Thanatopsis. 22. Define prose, and name the kinds of prose. 23. Distinguish between history and biography. 27. What do we mean by the Age of Chaucer? 28. What do we mean by the Age of Caxton? 29. Will you name the nine ages of English literature? 30. Will you give the dates of each of the nine periods in English literature? 31. Name Shakespeare's best tragedies.. 32. Name Shakespeare's best comedies. 33. Distinguish between a tragedy and a comedy. 34. Name Shakespeare's historical plays. 35. Tell what you can of Longfellow. Name his most noted works. 36. Mention the most prominent authors in the United States. 37. Name two of the leading historians in the United States. 38. Name the periods into which the history of American literature is divided. 39. Name two great writers of each American period. 40. What novelists and historians lived in Dr. Johnson's time? Name their most noted works. 41. Tell what you can of Goldsmith, and of his works. 42. Who wrote the Canterbury Tales, and how did they get this name? 43. What work shows Chaucer to be the best example of story-telling? 44. When did Chaucer live? Name his greatest work. 45. What eminent literary men were living in England at the time of Chaucer? 46. Of whom was it said, and who said, "The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind?' 47. State the peculiarities of Cowper as a man and a writer. 48. Name Scott's contemporaries, as great writers. 49. Name the works of Scott; and in what form of literature did he first write? 50. Who was styled century?" "The greatest diplomatist of the 51. Who was "The father of English poetry?”. 52. Of whom was it said, "The first among biographers?" 53. Who was the "Wizard of the North?" Why so called? 44. Tell what you can of the history of the composition of Paradise Lost. 55. Distinguish between Milton and Dante, concerning the general character of their imagery. 56. What do we mean by the machinery of an epic poem? 57. What is alliteration? Does Milton use it in his Paradise Lost? Give examples. 58. In what senses, now unusual, does Milton employ (in Book I) the following words: battle, witnessed, urges, fail, vast, afflicted, populous, frequent, prone? 59. Give the birthplace of Shakespeare; of Milton; of Cowper; of Byron; of Tennyson; of Bacon; of Goldsmith; of Hume. 60. What can you say of the personal appearance of Byron ? of Cowper? of Milton? of Bacon? of Goldsmith? of Shakespeare? of Hume? 61. Give the birthplace of Bryant; of Longfellow; of Whittier; of Lowell; of Holmes; of Poe; of Saxe; of Taylor; of Alice Cary; of Harte. 62. What can you say of the personal appearance and education of Irving? of Prescott? of Bancroft? of Beecher? of Webster? of Everett? of Longfellow? of Saxe? of Whittier? of Poe? of Jefferson? 63. Who were England's greatest prose writers? 64. Who are England's greatest prose writers at present? 65. Who are the greatest prose writers in the United States? 66. What were the last words of Goëthe? 67. What selections of Longfellow have you studied? 68. What selections of Whittier have you studied? |