Text from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (1949)
& the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (1961)

 

Where does your story begin? I HIT

WITH MY HANDS; I KICK

WITH MY ____. NO, WHAT IS

THE MAN DOING? HE IS ____.

Do you understand? Now which one

is it? HERE IS A KNIFE. HERE

ARE TWO ____. SHOW ME

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO WITH

THIS. NO DON’T TELL ME

ABOUT IT. SHOW ME WHAT

YOU SHOULD DO WITH ____.

What would you do if you were sent

to buy a loaf of bread and the grocer

said he did not have any more?

DURING THE DAY WE’RE

AWAKE; AT NIGHT WE ____. See

if you can get out of this one

yourself. Why should a promise be

kept? Why should women and

children be saved first in a shipwreck?

DO METEORITES  COLLIDE?

DO DAUGHTERS MARRY?

[Sometimes Subjects find it difficult

to remember the entire question.]

These pieces, if put together

correctly, will make a boy. Go ahead

and put them together. What is the

thing to do when you cut your

finger? DO YOU EAT? DO YOU

RAIN? [Sometimes subjects find it

difficult to remember ____.]

Why should ____ children be saved ____?

Now arrange these in their right

order so as to   make a sensible story.

You cannot go through a wall,

can you?