142 MEMOIRS NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Vol. xv, 



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Passage 1. 



The American | liner | New York | struck a mine | near Liverpool | Monday evening. I In spite of a blinding 

 snowstorm | and darkness, | the sixty passengers, | including women, | were all rescued, I though the boats | were tossed 

 about I like corks | in the heavy sea. | They were brought | into port | the next day | by a British | steamer. | 



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 pa.taq}BS Xaqx 'tnaqi Sutras puB sapjq ui raaqj Stnwnd 'saaBjd atjqnd puB sanioq itaqj iuojj sjadudsAau pjo Strrjaanoa 

 Xq Xanoui spqj ^o§ Xaqx "A^p aqi jo spunojSXBid jooqos aqi joj OOOoJ sabS Xpuaoaj uojSntqsB^ jo uajpjpqa aqx 



Passage 2. 



The children j of Washington | recently gave | $2000 | for the school | playgrounds | of the city. | They got this 

 money | by collecting | old newspapers I from their homes | and public places, | putting them in bales | and selling 

 them. | They gathered | over a hundred tons of papers. | This money will be used | to improve | the playgrounds 

 and buy athletic goods for them. | 



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Passage 3. 



Dogs I are trained | to find | the wounded I in war time. I Police dogs | are also trained | to rescue | drowning 

 people. I Instead of running down to the water I and striking out, | they are taught | to make a flying leap, | by which 

 they save | many swimming strokes | and valuable J seconds of time. | The European | sheep dog I makes the best 

 police dog. I 



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Passage 4- 



Many | echool children I in northern | France | were killed | or fatally hurt, | and others seriously injured | when 

 a shell I wrecked I the school-house I in their village. | The children I were thrown | down a hillside | and across | a 

 ravine I a long distance | from the school-house. | Only two children | escaped uninjured. | 



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Anna Thompson | of South Boston, | employed as a scrub woman I in an office building, | reported | at the City 

 Hall I Station j that she had been held up | on State Street | the night before | and robbed | of about five dollars. 

 She had four | little children | and the rent | was due. | The officers | made up | a purse | for her. | 



Test S, comprehension test. 



Directions. — Say to subject, "I am now going to ask you some questions. Listen closely, and answer them as 

 well as you can." Then give the five questions of the series chosen for use slowly and distinctly, with expression. 

 Subject may be given such encouragement to reply as the occasion demands, but examiner must avoid suggesting cor- 

 rect answers. If the response is too vague, question further in such terms as, "What do you mean? " "What makes 

 it so and so? " and the like. Questions may be reread once if subject requests it. Effort should be made to secure a 

 response which can be scored as + or — . 



The purpose of the test is to indicate the reasonableness of subject's mental processes. Disturbances of thought 

 processes may be topical, and many questions fail to bring them out, whereas others do. In examining a suspected 

 psychotic, examiner should give, in addition to one of the regular series, selections from other series, using such ques- 

 tions as in his judgment are best suited to bring out the suspected abnormality. 



Scoring.— The scoring for each item remains to be worked out. For this reason it is important that examiner record 

 enough of each response to give its essential content. This will make possible the later alteration of scores. 



Effort should be made to score each response as + or — according to some definite standard. Current standards 

 for scoring the Binet "difficult comprehension " questions will serve as a point of departure. Absurd responses should 

 be especially noted. 



Time for response, 1 minute for each question. If the subject requests a second reading, the time is measured 

 from the end of the second reading. 



