80 A METHOD OF MEASURING THE DEVELOPMENT 



mean?" "What does kindness mean?" Two correct answers 

 required. 



50. "Find the sentences which these words make. Fix the 

 words in their proper order." (Fig. 9.) 



( a ) For-an-the-at-hour-early-we-country-started. 



(b) To-asked-spelling-my-I-teacher-correct-my. 

 (e) A-defends-dog-good-his-master-bravely. 



NORMAL 

 Mental Age 15 Years. 



51. "I am going to say seven numbers. Listen well and 

 repeat them exactly: 4, 9, 2, 6, 1, 3, 7; 9, 3, 5, 1, 8, 2, 6; 

 2, 7, 4, 9, 3, 8, 5." One success m three required. 



52. "Do you know what the word 'rhyme' means? Two 

 words which rhyme are two words which end in the same sound. 

 Thus, pumpkin rhymes with napkin. Pump-^m, nap-fem. They 

 both end in kin. The same way mutton rhymes with button.' 

 Mut-ton and hut-ton. They both end in ton. Do you under- 

 stand ? Now I am going to give you a word, and you try to find 

 all the words which rhyme with it. The word is money. Find 

 all the words which rhyme with 'money.' "* 



Three words required in one minute. 



53. "Listen carefully and repeat exactly what I say: The 

 other day I saw on the street a pretty yellow dog. Little Morris 

 has soiled his nice new apron." 



54. Tests Nos. 9 and 27. Ask the same questions. Full 

 credit given if two pictures are intepreted. 



*Money is substituted here for the French word, obeissance, 

 the English form for which, obedience, is not adapted to rhyming, 

 while the word obey, our first substitution, leads to such rhymes as, 

 Stay, hay, day, etc., which are not satisfactory. 



