TEST 8

Notice the sample sentence:

People hear with the eyes _ears_ nose mouth

The correct word is _ears_, because it makes the truest sentence.

In each of the sentences below you have four choices for the last word. Only one of them is correct. In each sentence draw a line under the one of these four words which makes the truest sentence. If you can not be sure, guess. The two samples are already marked as they should be.

SAMPLES
People hear with the eyes _ears_ nose mouth
France is in _Europe_ Asia Africa Australia

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1</td>
      <td>America was discovered by Drake Hudson Columbus Balboa.</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>2</td>
      <td>Pinochle is played with rackets cards pins dice.</td>
      <td>2</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>3</td>
      <td>The most prominent industry of Detroit is automobiles brewing flour packing.</td>
      <td>3</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>4</td>
      <td>The Wyandotte is a kind of horse fowl cattle granite.</td>
      <td>4</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>5</td>
      <td>The U. S. School for Army Officers is at Annapolis West Point New Haven Ithaca.</td>
      <td>5</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>6</td>
      <td>Food products are made by Smith & Wesson Swift & Co. W. L. Douglas B. T. Babbitt</td>
      <td>6</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>7</td>
      <td>Bud Fisher is famous as an actor author baseball player comic artist.</td>
      <td>7</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>8</td>
      <td>The Guernsey is a kind of horse goat sheep cow.</td>
      <td>8</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>9</td>
      <td>Marguerite Clark is known as a suffragist singer movie actress writer.</td>
      <td>9</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>10</td>
      <td>"Hasn't scratched yet" is used in advertising a duster flour brush cleanser.</td>
      <td>10</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>11</td>
      <td>Salsify is a kind of snake fish lizard vegetable.</td>
      <td>11</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>12</td>
      <td>Coral is obtained from mines elephants oysters reefs.</td>
      <td>12</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>13</td>
      <td>Rosa Bonheur is famous as a poet painter composer sculptor.</td>
      <td>13</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>14</td>
      <td>The tuna is a kind of fish bird reptile insect.</td>
      <td>14</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>15</td>
      <td>Emeralds are usually red blue green yellow.</td>
      <td>15</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>16</td>
      <td>Maize is a kind of corn hay oats rice.</td>
      <td>16</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>17</td>
      <td>Nabisco is a patent medicine disinfectant food product tooth paste</td>
      <td>17</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>18</td>
      <td>Velvet Joe appears in advertisements of tooth powder dry goods tobacco soap.</td>
      <td>18</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>19</td>
      <td>Cypress is a kind of machine food tree fabric.</td>
      <td>19</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>20</td>
      <td>Bombay is a city in China Egypt India Japan.</td>
      <td>20</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>21</td>
      <td>The dictaphone is a kind of typewriter multigraph phonograph adding machine.</td>
      <td>21</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>22</td>
      <td>The pancreas is in the abdomen head shoulder neck.</td>
      <td>22</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>23</td>
      <td>Cheviot is the name of a fabric drink dance food.</td>
      <td>23</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>24</td>
      <td>Larceny is a term used in medicine theology law pedagogy.</td>
      <td>24</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>25</td>
      <td>The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in 1863 1813 1778 1812.</td>
      <td>25</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>26</td>
      <td>The bassoon is used in music stenography book-binding lithography</td>
      <td>26</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>27</td>
      <td>Turpentine comes from petroleum ore hides trees.</td>
      <td>27</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>28</td>
      <td>The number of a Zulu's legs is two four six eight.</td>
      <td>28</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>29</td>
      <td>The scimitar is a kind of musket cannon pistol sword.</td>
      <td>29</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>30</td>
      <td>The Knight engine is used in the Packard Lozier Stearns Pierce Arrow.</td>
      <td>30</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>31</td>
      <td>The author of "The Raven" is Stevenson Kipling Hawthorne Poe.</td>
      <td>31</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>32</td>
      <td>Spare is a term used in bowling football tennis hockey.</td>
      <td>32</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>33</td>
      <td>A six-sided figure is called a scholium parallelogram hexagon trapezium.</td>
      <td>33</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>34</td>
      <td>Isaac Pitman was most famous in physics shorthand railroading electricity.</td>
      <td>34</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>35</td>
      <td>The ampere is used in measuring wind power electricity water power rainfall.</td>
      <td>35</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>36</td>
      <td>The Overland car is made in Buffalo Detroit Flint Toledo.</td>
      <td>36</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>37</td>
      <td>Mauve is the name of a drink color fabric food.</td>
      <td>37</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>38</td>
      <td>The stanchion is used in fishing hunting farming motoring.</td>
      <td>38</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>39</td>
      <td>Mica is a vegetable mineral gas liquid.</td>
      <td>39</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>40</td>
      <td>Scrooge appears in Vanity Fair The Christmas Carol Romola Henry IV.</td>
      <td>40</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

TEST 3

This is a test of common sense. Below are sixteen questions. Three answers are given to each question. You are to look at the answers carefully; then make a cross in the square before the best answer to each question, as in the sample:

SAMPLE

- [ ] Why do we use stoves? Because they look well
- [x] they keep us warm
- [ ] they are black

Here the second answer is the best one and is marked with a cross. Begin with No. 1 and keep on until time is called.

1. If plants are dying for lack of rain, you should

☐ water them

☐ ask a florist's advice

☐ put fertilizer around them

2. A house is better than a tent, because

☐ it costs more

☐ it is more comfortable

☐ it is made of wood

3. Why does it pay to get a good education?

Because

☐ it makes a man more useful and happy

☐ it makes work for teachers

☐ it makes demand for buildings for schools and colleges

4. If the grocer should give you too much money in making change, what is the right thing to do?

☐ buy some candy of him with it

☐ give it to the first poor man you meet

☐ tell him of his mistake

5. Why should food be chewed before swallowing?

☐ it is better for the health

☐ it is bad manners to swallow without chewing

☐ chewing keeps the teeth in condition

6. If you saw a train approaching a broken track you should

☐ telephone for an ambulance

☐ signal the engineer to stop the train

☐ look for a piece of rail to fit in

7. If you are lost in a forest in the daytime, what is the thing to do?

☐ hurry to the nearest house you know of

☐ look for something to eat

☐ use the sun or a compass for a guide

8. It is better to fight than to run, because

☐ cowards are shot

☐ it is more honorable

☐ if you run you may get shot in the back

Go to No. 9 above

9. Why are warships painted gray? Because gray paint

☐ is cheaper than other colors

☐ is more durable than other colors

☐ makes the ships harder to see

10. Why should all parents be made to send their children to school? Because

☐ it prepares them for adult life

☐ it keeps them out of mischief

☐ they are too young to work

11. The reason that many birds sing in the spring is

☐ to let us know spring is here

☐ to attract their mates

☐ to exercise their voices

12. Gold is more suitable than iron for making money because

☐ gold is pretty

☐ iron rusts easily

☐ gold is scarcer and more valuable

13. The cause of echoes is

☐ the reflection of sound waves

☐ the presence of electricity in the air

☐ the presence of moisture in the air

14. We see no stars at noon because

☐ they have moved around to the other side of the earth

☐ they are so much fainter than the sun

☐ they are hidden behind the sky

15. Some men lose their breath on high mountains because

☐ the wind blows their breath away

☐ the air is too rare

☐ it is always cold there

16. Why do some men who could afford to own a house live in a rented one? Because

☐ they don't have to pay taxes

☐ they don't have to buy a rented house

☐ they can make more by investing the money the house would cost