One Minute Quiz

1. The right side of a shiv is called “starboard.” From what is this term derived? 2. W/ien s/ie was 18, the parents of Armandme Lucile Aurore Dupin arranged her marriage with a M.

Dudevo/nt. By what other name was she better known?

(Answers on Page 85)

1 The Viking ships which before 900 AD had crossed the Atlantic, carried 30 to 40 warriors using oars and sail. The warriors’ shields hung: °n the bulwarks (like saucepan-lids In a row), and on the right side of the vessel was a “styrbord” or heavy steering-oar. Now the right side of a shin is called starboard. 3. George Sand, 19th century French novelist who. after nine years of marriage left her family and went to Paris to earn a living by writing, and to

live as she pleased. She often dressed as a man and, in a period when writers were expected to be flamboyant and spectacular, she became a legend. Al though she produced a prodigious number of novels, she is remembered less for these than for her countless “platonic friendships” and love affairs. Chopin was her companion for many years.

H Master Cyril Chan, formerly a student at the Sacred Heart Mission school in Rabaul, and now at a school conducted by the Sacred Heart Fathers at Burradoo, NSW. passed the NSW Leaving Examina tion with honours in Greek, Latin and French. He is a member of a well-known Chinese family. (The Chinese language is no longer taught in Administration schools in New Guinea.)