Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use ItTrabue, Marion Rex
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Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It
Trabue, Marion Rex
Educational tests and measurements; Intelligence tests; Psychological tests
Best Middle Poorest
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_MENTIMETER NO. 28_: Arithmetic Reasoning.
In giving the correct answers below each figure has attached to it the
word indicating the commodity concerned. No answer should be considered
incorrect, however, because it omits the words “dollars,” “lemons” or
“men.”
1. 8 men
2. 12 dollars
8. 9 nickels
4. 5 benches
5. 8 cents
6. 23 cents
7. 16 lemons
8. 3373 quarts
9. 500 pounds
10. 51 cents
11. 750 people
12. 22 tons
13. $4.80
14. $1575.00
_MENTIMETER NO. 29_: Practical Judgment Test.
1. Get a drink of water.
2. It tastes good.
3. Wear a raincoat.
4. Ring the alarm and try to put out the fire.
5. Ask the person’s pardon.
6. The frost has killed them.
7. To protect them from the colder weather.
8. At the beach of a summer resort.
9. Try to make time by hurrying.
10. To display the flag and inspire patriotism.
11. Water always becomes solid at low temperatures.
12. Nail a piece of tin over it.
13. It is an easily digested and wholesome food.
14. An incandescent electric bulb.
15. To create a demand for special brands.
16. So that their strength may be utilized.
17. The low temperature keeps it fresh.
18. One could jump from one-story buildings.
19. Discover and remove the cause of its crying.
20. It has fewer impurities in it.
21. To avoid making the city smoky.
22. To remove the electricity from the air.
23. High and rapidly.
24. To help one decide where to read.
_MENTIMETER NO. 30_: Logical Conclusions Test.
1. Older than James.
2. Older than Mary.
3. Shorter than Dot.
4. Not heavier than May.
5. Slower than William.
6. Smarter than Bertha.
7. Not as rich as Mr. Jones.
8. Not noisier than Robert.
9. Less rapidly than Henry.
10. Not warmer than Thursday.
11. Not as frugal as Mrs. Brown.
12. Not larger than the second.
THE END
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. P. 98, changed “to errors” to “to make errors”.
2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
3. Anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as
printed.
4. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers.
5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
6. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.
7. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript
character, e.g. M^r.
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