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(b) "Before taking part in something very important, what 

 would you do?" 



(c) "Why do we more easily pardon a bad act done in 

 anger than a bad act done without anger?" 



(d) "If someone should ask your opinion of one whom you 

 did not know very well, what would you say?" 



(e) "Why should we judge a person by his acts rather than 

 by his words?" 



Two errors allowed. 



45. Write the words Paris, fortune, stream. Show them 

 to the child, reading them to him several times. Then give him 

 pen and ink and tell him to write a sentence containing all three 

 of these words. 



Full credit is given for two sentences containing the three 



words. 



Mental Age 12 Years. 



46. "Which is the longer of these two lines ?" (Figure 13,) 

 "Which is the longer of these two lines?" (Figure 14.) 

 "Which is the longer of these two Hnes?" (Figure 15.) 

 "And of these?" (Figure 16.) 



"And of these?" (Figure 17.) 

 "And of these?" (Figure 18.) 



Full credit given if suggestion of longer line to the right 

 does not hold in tzvo of last three pair. 



47. Test 45. Credit given for one sentence containing the 

 three words. 



48. "I want you to say just as many words as you can in 

 three minutes. Some boys say as many as two hundred. Now 

 you must try and see how many you can think of." 



Sixty words the minimum accepted. 



49. "What does charity mean?" "What does justice 



