3.

1. Delineate or describe the general configuration of India.

2. What are its area and population?

3. Of these what are the respective proportions subject to British and to native authority?

4. Into what portions may India be conveniently divided?

5. What are the principal mountain ranges?

6. What is the extent and direction of the Himalaya from west to east, and what may be considered as its eastern termination?

7. What are its principal elevations and passes?

8. What celebrated lakes lie to the north of the Himalaya, and by what Europeans have they been visited?

9. Where are situated the states of Balti and Ladakh ?

10. What country lies east of Ladakh ?

11. What line of lofty mountains bounds the high lands of Little Tibet to the north, and to what large river does it give rise?

12. What are the principal rivers in Upper India, in Central and Western India, and in the South?

13. Describe the course of the Indus on the north of the Himalaya and its feeders before it breaks through the mountains.

14. Describe the course of the Indus from Darband to the sea.

15. Describe the source, direction, and termination of the Satlej.

16. In what order do the rivers of the Punjab combine until they form the

Panjnad?

17. How is the Brahmaputra (vulgarly Burrumpooter) formed, and what is its course?

18. Where do the Son and Narmada (Nerbudda) rise, and what are their several directions and terminations?

19. Describe the source and course of the Krishná.

20. What countries are watered by the Kaveri, and under what name does it fall into the sea?

21. By what channels does the Hoogly (properly Bhagirathí) communicate with the main stream of the Ganges?

22. How high was the Hoogly navigable for vessels of burthen in the days of Clive?

23. How high is it now navigable?

24. Through what other channel or branch has it been proposed to communicate with the sea?

25. What is the distance of Calcutta from the sea at Sagar?

26. What are the latitude and longitude of Calcutta?

27. How often in the year is the sun vertical in Calcutta?

28. What are the seasons in the latitude of Calcutta, and their respective average temperature?

29. What is the estimated population; and of that, what portion is Christian?

30. What are the chief articles of export and import, and what their respective value, of late years?

31. The Bengal Presidency comprises (1) the Lower Provinces or Bengal proper; (2) the North-west Provinces or the Agra lieutenant-governorship; (3) the Saugor and Nerbudda commissionerships; (4) the south-west frontier agency; (5) the Punjab. What provinces are included under each of these divisions, and what are the areas and populations of the five respectively?

32. What is the position and what are the boundaries, area, and population of Oudh ?

33. What are the position and boundaries of Bundelkhand?

34. What are the position and boundaries of Malwa ?

35. What cities of actual importance or of ancient celebrity are situated in those two provinces ?

36. Name the allied and protected native principalities in the same two provinces.

37. Name and describe the several divisions of Rajwara or Rajputana from west to east, with their respective capitals.

38. What is the nature of the country between the Arávalí mountains and the Indus?

39. What is the nature of the tract between the southern part of Malwa on the east and north, and Kutch and Sindh on the south and west? What is it called? Can it be traversed?

40. What are the origin, course, and termination of the Loni river? 41. Where is Gondwana situated, and what is the character and what are the people of the country?

42. What is the character of the country on the west of Orissa and Ganjam, and by what races is it peopled? How far does it extend to the north?

43. What are the position and boundaries of the Nizam's possessions? 44. What are the latitude and longitude of Madras, its area and population? 45. Specify the district subject to the Madras Presidency.

46. Name the countries on the Malabar coast from south to north as high as the latitude of Bombay.

47. What are the latitude and longitude of Bombay, its area and population? 48. Describe its position and form, and its relation to the adjacent continent. 49. What districts are subject to the Presidency of Bombay?

50. What are the position, boundaries, and capital of Guzerat?

51. What are the position and boundaries of Sindh, and what is the general character of the country?

52. What are the boundaries of Arakan, and what is the character of the country?

53. What territories formerly subject to Ava, are now under British rule? 54. What native principalities and states intervene between the British possessions in this quarter and China?

HINDUSTANI.
No. 1.

1. Write the Hindustani Alphabet in the Arabic or Persian character.

2. Write the Hindustani Alphabet in the Devanagari character.

3. How are the vowels expressed in the former? and how are they named ?

7. What are the marks called Jazm and Tashdid? and what is their effect? 9. How many genders are there in Hindustani?

10. How are they recognisable ?

11. What are the numbers and cases of nouns ?

12. What changes does the nouns undergo in the cases and numbers?

13. How are the cases formed?

16. What changes do adjectives in connexion with substantives undergo ? 17. How are degrees of comparison expressed?

19. What is the terminating syllable of the infinitive? and is it liable to inflexion? Give an example.

20. How are the present and past participles formed?

21. How is the conjunctive participle formed?

25. Translate in both the forms they admit: 'The man beat the boy; 'Th boy beat the girl.'

26. How is the passive formed? Give an example.

27. What are the actives and causals of: 'to burn,' 'to set on fire,' 'to rise,' 'to raise,' 'to learn,' 'to teach ?'

28. What compound verbs occur in Hindustani? and how formed?

29. Give the Hindustani for: 'now,' 'when,' 'then,'' where,' 'there,'' here.' 30. Give the Hindustani for: 'before,'' behind,' 'near,' 'far,' 'with,' 'like,'

'for the sake of,' 'except.'

31. Write the first ten numerals, words and figures.

Translate into Hindustani.

'His daughter;' 'His son;' 'To her son's house;' 'Let him come;' 'Light the lamp;' 'Do not wait for me;' 'I left my hat in the palanquin ;' 'I repent having done this;' 'What is your name?' 'What is your native country? What is your business?' 'What wages monthly do you expect?' 'Delhi is the oldest and handsomest city in the world; ' Many ships come to Calcutta; it is the chief seat of the English government and trade.'

No. 2.

1. Write the alphabet in both the Niskh (Arabic or Hindustani) and the Nagari or Hindi character.

2. How are the vowels expressed in the former, and what are they called? 4. What are the cerebral consonants of the Sanscrit or Hindi alphabet? 5. How are they written in the Hindustani character?

6. What are the marks called jazm, tashdíd, madda, hamza, and their effects? 7. How is the gender of substantives in Hindustani distinguished?

8. Under how many classes or declensions may they be arranged?

9. How are the cases of nouns formed?

10. Which of the postpositions takes an inflexion?

12. Are adjectives declinable?

13. How are the degrees of comparison expressed?

16. What is the invariable form of the infinitive?

17. What leading parts of the verb are formed from it?

21. How is the passive formed?

22. Decline the verb, to be beaten.

23. How is a neuter verb made active, or an active verb causal ?

25. Translate the following sentences into Hindustani :-

Who are you?

What is your name?

Where do you come from?

Tell the groom to bring the horse!

What is that girl's name?

Whose daughter is she?

Have you paid the palkee-bearers?

I have no money!

The elephant killed the tiger.

He is a good man's son.

The man's daughter is very handsome

What

A person said to a merchant, You have for many years voyaged by sea. wonderful things have you beheld at sea? The merchant answered, The most wonderful of all is that I came safely to shore.

No. 3.

1. Write out the alphabet in both the Niskh and Nagari characters.

2. Write in Persian, and explain, the words jazm, tanwín, tashdíd, zer, zabar, pesh, izáfah.

3. Give rules for the genders in Hindustani, and for the formation of feminine nouns from masculine.

5. Decline the personal, demonstrative, and indefinite pronouns.

7. Write out the numbers and figures from I to 10.

9. Explain the formation of active and causal verbs.

11. Translate: His daughter; His son; To his son's garden; To his daughter's house. He slew; He was slain; He slew himself. Allow him to come. Light every other lamp. Do not wait for me. I left my hat in the palanquin. I repent having done this. A certain physician, whenever he went to the cemetery, used to put a sheet over his head and face. When people asked him the reason of this, he said, "I am ashamed of the dead in this cemetery, because they died of my medicines."

BENGALI EXAMINATION.

1. Write out the Bengali alphabet.

2. Write in the Bengali character the syllables ká, kí, ku, kú, ke, kai, ko kau.

3. Write kta, kna, kshma, kya, tra, nda, tya.

4. What is the ordinary sound of the short vowel a?

5. What words retain in pronunciation the unwritten short vowel after their final consonant, and what makes the consonant final?

6. How are the definite and indefinite articles expressed in Bengali ?

7. How are feminine nouns formed from masculine?

10. How are the comparative and superlative degrees formed?

11. Decline the first and second personal pronouns.

12. Decline the same when intimating inferiority.

14. Write the numerals from 1 to 10 in words and figures.

15. What part of the verb may be taken as the root?

16. Have the tenses of the Bengali verb two numbers?

17. What verbs are used as auxiliaries?

18. What are the moods and tenses?

20. How is the passive formed? Give an example.

Translate into Bengali

A merchant said to a sailor, "In what manner did your father die?" He made answer, "My father and grandfather having been drowned in the ocean, died." The merchant again made reply, "Then have you no fear of dying by being drowned?" The sailor inquired, "Very well; in what manner did your father and grandfather die?" The merchant answered, "in bed." The sailor made reply, "Then in like manner as there is no fear in you to go to bed, in such manner there is no fear in me to go on board ship."

Moral:-Fear becomes destroyed through habit.

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ARITHMETIC.

(Time allowed, 3 hours.)
REDUCTION.

1. In 523,769 grains how many lbs. oz. dwts.?

2. Reduce 3 acres, 20 rods, 12 square yards, and 7 square feet to square feet.

PROPORTION.

3. If the yearly profits of an investment be 117. 9s. 6d. per cent., how much must be invested in order to produce an annual return of 640l. 13s. 9d.? 4. If a pocket of hops weighing 1 cwt. 3 qr. 12 lbs. cost 77. 13s., what is the price per cwt.?

PRACTICE.

5. Find the cost of 75 cwt. 1 qr. 16 lbs. of sugar at 27. 4s. 11d. per cwt. 6. A bankrupt owes 25,9627. 10s. What must his assets be worth in order that he may pay 7s. 11d. in the pound?

INTEREST.

7. Find the simple interest on 1,9231. 15s. for 2 years and 8 months at 33 per cent. per annum.

S. Find the amount of 4,800l. in 3 years at 34 per cent. per annum, compound interest.

VULGAR FRACTIONS.

9. Add together 73, 14, 1, and 27.

10. Subtract 5 from 74.

11. Multiply 22 by 43.

12. Divide 192 by 43.