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University of New Zealand.

Examination for Senior Scholarships, 1885.

German.

Examiner: Prof. C. A. Buchheim, Ph.D., F.C.P.

Paper b.

I. German Philology.

1.	Give Schleicher's view of the four principal periods of the German language. In which period did the second consonantal change (Zweite Lautverfchiebung) take place? and in which dialect did it most completely manifest itself?
2.	What general vowel-change characterizes the transition from Old High German to Middle High German? Give instances of that variation, and state whether a similar variation is to be met with in other Aryan languages.
3.	Explain and illustrate by examples the difference between Inlaut, Auslaut, ablaut, and Umlaut. Does the full development of the Umlaut in High German coincide with that in other Teutonic languages?
4.	Give the Teutonic origin of the following words now used in German as French expressions:—Garderobe, Equipage, Staffette, Etape, Brefche, Etiquette, Bivouac, Gchatulle, bleffieren, blockieren, Scharmützel, garnieren, hellebarde, Banket.

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II. German Literature.

[The following questions should he answered in German.]

1.	Wer waren die fogenannten Anakrontiker in Deutfchland, und welcher von ihnen warde zu den Preuβifchen Dichtern gezählt?
2.	Ueber den Göttinger hainbund. Wie fo entfland derfelbe und wer waren deffen vorzüglichfte Mitglieder?
3.	Ueber die Sturm-und Drangperiode. Wer waren die hauptvertreter derfelben, und in welchen Werken von Schiller und Goethe find Spuren jener literarifchen Richtung zu finden?
4.	Ueber Jean Paul und deffen Einfluβ auf die deutfche Literatur.
5.	Entftehung und Tendenz der Romantifchen Schule. Wer waren die vorzüglichften Bertreter derfelben?