No. 1.] 



PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINING IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY. 



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Series 1. 



(a) If you have a bucket full of eggs in one hand and an empty basket in the other, and a man offers to give you 

 some sweet cider, how would you get it home? 



(b) Why is it better to judge a man by what he does than by what he says? 



(c) Why should people have to pay taxes? 



(rf) Why are people who are born deaf usually dumb? 



(e) Why does land in the city cost more than land in the country? 



Series 2. 

 (a) If a child runs out in front of an automobile and is run over by it, what should the driver do? 

 (6) If you picked up a pocketbook on the road with a hundred dollars in it, what would you do to find the owner? 



(c) Which would you forgive more quickly; a man who did you an injury when he was angry, or a man who did you 

 an injury when he wasn't angry? 



(d) Why is it better to pay bills by check than by cash? 



(e) Why are unmarried men preferred for military service? 



Series S. 

 (a) What should you do if you find a sealed, stamped, and addressed envelope in the street? 

 (6) What should you do with a 2-year-old child that you find lost on a city street? 



(c) What should you say if someone asks your opinion about somebody you don't know very well? 



(d) Why is it often a good thing for a man to have his life insured? 



(e) Why do banks usually prefer married men for cashiers? 



Series 4- 



(a) You are hauling a load of lumber; the horses get stuck in the mud, and there is no help to be had. What should 

 you do? 



(b) Your mother is sick and has no money. You earn a dollar and are taking it to her. On the way you meet a 

 child who cries and wants a nickel for some candy. What should you do? 



(c) Why has New York become the largest city in America? 



(d) Why is a man who borrows money willing to pay interest on it? 



(e) Why should women and children be saved first in a shipwreck? 



Series 5. 



(a) What should you do if your neighbor dumps rubbish in your dooryard? 



(b) Why is electric light better than gaslight? 



(c) You are driving along a lonely road with a wagonload of people, and you meet a man badly hurt lying in the 

 road. Your wagon can not hold any more, and no other help may come for hours. What should you do? 



(d) Why should people have to get a license to get married? 



(e) A man is 60 years old and has nobody to keep but himself. He has ten thousand dollars. What should he do 

 with it? 



Test T, sentence construction (three words). 



Materials. — Sets of three words, given below. 



Directions.— (a) Examiner says, "Now, I am going to give you three words. Join them with other words in any 

 order so as to make a sentence that has all three words in it. The three words are (examiner reads set (a) of series se- 

 lected for use). Go ahead and make up a sentence that has all three words in it." 



N. B. — Examiner: Do not show the words or illustrate what a sentence is. If the subject does not begin to respond 

 within a minute, repeat the directions, using set (b). If still there is no response within a minute, discontinue the test. 



Scoring. — Write down what the subject says and score the test + or — . 



(b) Examiner says, "Now make up a sentence that has these three words in it." (Examiner reads set (b) of series 

 being used.) 



(c) Same procedure as for (b), using set (c). 



Scries 1. 



(a) grocer, sugar, scales 



(b) thread, cloth, button 



(c) pleasure, theater, people 



Series S. 



(a) accident, train, night 



(b) water, fish, animal 



(c) wealth, miser, friends 



Series 5. 



(a) plants, root, ground 



(b) newspaper, fire, city 



(c) business, invention, machine 



Series 2. 



(a) forest, gun, hunter 



(b) parade, crowd, circus 



(c) success, books, information 



Series 4. 



(a) woman, ribbon, hat 



(b) cloud, light, moon 



(c) poverty, spendthrift, fortune 



