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Form B. 

 LITERACY TEST. 



Write your name here Age 



Write in this line the company you belong to 



Write in this line the regiment you belong to 



Below, write the letter W under every word that means something about war ovjighting. 



Write the letter B under every word that means something about business or money. 



Write the letter T under every word that has something to do with time. 



Write the letter D under every word that means something about distance or direction or location. 



1. fight, money, gun, morning, soldier 



2. here, colonel, purchase, Wednesday, April 



3. out-flank, lasting, freight, elevated, forgery 



4. diagonal, surmounting, incessant, peculation, frontal 



Score 



Form C. 

 LITERACY TEST. 



Write your name here Age. 



Write in this line the company you belong to 



Write in this line the regiment you belong to 



Below, write the letter F under every word that means a. flower. 



Write the letter A under every word that means an animal. 



Write the letter N under every word that means a boy's name. 



Write the letter T under every word that has something to do with time. 



1. wolf, lily, bear, buttercup, elephant. 



2. month, Jeffrey, Oscar, forenoon, rhinoceros. 



3. hollyhock, weasel, Owen, gradual, Hiram 



4. anemone, Hugh, punctual, calliopsis, Roderic. 



Score 



Form D. 

 LITERACY TEST. 



Write your name here Age 



Write in this line the company you belong to 



Write in this line the regiment you belong to 



Below, write the letter W under every word that means something about war or fighting. 



Write the letter B under every word that means something about business or money. 



Write the letter T under every word that has something to do with time. 



Write the letter D under every word that means something about distance or direction or location. 



1. camp, west, general, troops, south. 



2. across, merchant, noon, profit, Tuesday. 



3. overhanging, future, where, immediate, exterior. 



4. rarely, finance, insolvent, eternal, transverse. 



Score 



(2) KELLEY LITERACY TEST. 



Directions. — In giving the literacy test the first eight words are to be used as a practice 

 series. The examiners are to pass around the room giving individual help on these words. 

 In doing this they will discover individuals who are evidently illiterate. Mark their papers I, 

 collect them, and send the individuals to the skill test. 



Men who are able without help or with slight help to mark the first eight samples are to 

 be given the test proper. In this they are to receive no help. They are to be directed to place 

 a letter after every word even though they have to guess at some of them. As soon as an 

 individual completes the test have him come forward or go to him, examine his paper and 

 classify him immediately. 



For rapid classification, prepare key sheets and examine, first of all, the first column (com- 

 posed of words of fourth grade difficulty). If all 20 of these are correct, pass the individual as 

 literate without examining other columns. If less than 20 are correct, examine also the second 

 column (composed of words of fifth grade difficulty). If an individual scores 34 or more on 



