Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It - Marion Rex Trabue; Frank Parker Stockbridge

Again, the words HORSES FEATHERS HAVE ALL would make a sentence if put in the order: ALL HORSES HAVE FEATHERS, but this statement is false.

Below are twenty-four mixed-up sentences. Some of them are true and some are false. When I say “go,” take these sentences one at a time. Think what each would say if the words were straightened out, but don’t write them yourself. Then, if what it would say is true, draw a line under the word “true”; if what it would say is false, draw a line under the word “false.” If you can not be sure, guess. The two samples are already marked as they should be. Begin with No. 1 and work right down the page until time is called.

SAMPLES	a eats cow grass	true	false
SAMPLES	horses feathers have all	true	false

1	oranges yellow are	true	false	1
2	hear are with to ears	true	false	2
3	noise cannon never make a	true	false	3
4	trees in nests build birds	true	false	4
5	oil water not and will mix	true	false	5
6	bad are shots soldiers all	true	false	6
7	fuel wood are coal and for used	true	false	7
8	moon earth the only from feet twenty the is	true	false	8
9	to life water is necessary	true	false	9
10	are clothes all made cotton of	true	false	10
11	horses automobile an are than slower	true	false	11
12	tropics is in the produced rubber	true	false	12
13	leaves the trees in lose their fall	true	false	13
14	place pole is north comfortable a the	true	false	14
15	sand of made bread powder and is	true	false	15
16	sails is steamboat usually by propelled a	true	false	16
17	is the salty in water all lakes	true	false	17
18	usually judge can we actions man his by a	true	false	18
19	men misfortune have good never	true	false	19
20	tools valuable is for sharp making steel	true	false	20
21	due sometimes calamities are accident to	true	false	21
22	forget trifling friends grievances never	true	false	22
23	feeling is of painful exaltation the	true	false	23
24	begin a and apple acorn ant words with the	true	false	24

Instructions for Giving Alpha Test 6.

Test 6.—Number Series Completion

(N. B. Examiner.—Give these instructions very slowly).

“Attention! Look at the first sample row of figures at the top of the page—2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, the two numbers that should come next are, of course, 14, 16.

“Look at the second sample—9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4; the two numbers that should come next are 3, 2.

“Look at the third sample—2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4; the two numbers that should come next are 5, 5.

“Now look at the fourth sample—1, 7, 2, 7, 3, 7; the next two numbers would, of course, be 4, 7.