11. Which do you consider the more important, the housework or the child? 12. Wherein may the mother learn from the child? 13. What is the difference between amusing children and playing with them? What is the proper method? 14. Mention some good rules in character building. 15. From your own experience as a child what can you say of teaching the mysteries of sex? 16. Are there any questions you would like to ask, or subjects which you wish to discuss in connection with this lesson? Note.--After completing the test sign your full name. [Illustration: MADONNA AND CHILD By Murillo, Spanish painter of the seventeenth century] STUDY OF CHILD LIFE PART III ART AND LITERATURE IN CHILD LIFE The influence of art upon the life of a young child is difficult of measurement. It may freely be said, however, that there is little or no danger in exaggerating its influence, and considerable danger in underrating it. It is difficult of measurement because the influence is largely an unconscious one. Indeed, it may be questioned whether that form of art which gives him the most conscious and outspoken pleasure is the form that in reality is the most beneficial; for, unquestionably, he will get great satisfaction from circus posters, and the poorly printed, abominably illustrated cheap picture-books afford him undeniable joy. He is far less likely to be expressive of his pleasure in a sun-shiny nursery, whose walls, rugs, white beds, and sun-shiny windows are all well designed and well adapted to his needs. Nevertheless, in the end the influence of this room is likely to be the greater influence and to permanently shape his ideas of the beautiful; while he is entirely certain, if allowed to develop artistically at all, to grow past the circus poster period. This fact--the fact that the highest influence of art is a secret influence, exercised not only by those decorations and pictures which flaunt themselves for the purpose, but also by those quiet, necessary, every-day things, which nevertheless may most truly express the art spirit--this fact makes it difficult to tell what art and what kind of art is really influencing the child, and whether it is influencing him in the right directions. [Sidenote: Color]