Except in special cases indicated below, no credit should be allowed for adding “not” or “un” or any other negative prefix to the printed word. An entirely different word should be used as the opposite of the printed word. Those words printed in parentheses in the following list should not be given credit as being satisfactory opposites. Words not printed below but as satisfactory opposites as those printed should be given full credit, while words as unsatisfactory as those printed in parentheses should not be given credit.
1. bad, poor (not good) 2. poor, needy, indigent 3. big, large, great (tall) 4. old, ancient 5. easy, soft 6. light (white) 7. clean, pure 8. well, healthy 9. south 10. full, filled 11. pull 12. right, correct 13. end, ending 14. wide 15. evening, afternoon (night) 16. somewhere, everywhere 17. fresh 18. idle 19. to sink (to swim) 20. rough, ragged 21. tame, domestic 22. weakness 23. guilty 24. ignorance, stupidity 25. negative, uncertain 26. superior 27. modern, new 28. cause 29. generous, liberal 30. concrete, specific
MENTIMETER NO. 17: Spelling Tests.
The word lists themselves furnish the correct answers and therefore no further set of answers is needed here. See pages [199]–200 for the lists.
MENTIMETER NO. 18: Range of Information.
1. COW 2. CLUBS 3. CIGARETTE 4. CARPENTER 5. GREEN 6. AUTOMOBILES 7. DOG 8. ACTRESS 9. HUYLER 10. 1861 11. COUNTY 12. PAINTER 13. MOTORCYCLE 14. NOVELIST 15. FILING-CASE 16. DISTANCE 17. LEG 18. REEFS 19. WATER 20. STOWE 21. STATESMAN 22. POUGHKEEPSIE 23. LAW 24. TWO 25. DICKENS 26. ENGLAND 27. BIRD 28. ATHLETICS 29. DRINK 30. INK 31. FRUIT 32. ISOSCELES 33. 1066 34. HEART 35. PLANT 36. KOREA 37. OXYGEN 38. MUSIC 39. CLOTH 40. ANIMAL
MENTIMETER NO. 19: Reading Vocabulary.
1. BODY, TOOL 2. ANIMAL 3. CLOTHES 4. COLOUR 5. BIRD 6. CLOTHES 7. ANIMAL, BODY 8. TOOL, FISH 9. BODY 10. TOOL
MENTIMETER NO. 20: Reading, Directions.
1. The name should be written on the line. 2. There should be a cross or an x in the square. 3. There should be a cross or an x in the circle and a dot or period in the square. 4. There should be a 1 under the letter M and a 2 under the letter W, in the list of capital letters beginning A, N, etc. 5. The word “Yes” should be written on the dotted line. 6. The word “in” should be crossed out and the word “and” should have two lines or circles around it. 7. The word “seven” or the figure 7 should be written on the blank at the left, “twelve” or 12 on the middle blank, and “one hundred” or 100 on the blank at the right. 8. “Ten” or 10 should be written in the square on the left, a small circle should be written in the second square, and the letter “C” in the triangle at the right. 9. There should be a line drawn under the word “Peck.” 10. The word “thousand” or 1000 should be written in the circle. 11. The square in front of the word “diminished” should have a check mark or cross on it. 12. There should be a line under the word “Face.”