Name Period __. Date HANDOUT 24-6 “How Smart Are You” Directions: The following 20 questions represent what you may encounter on an incelligence test, although we eried co make them a little more amusing than the average IQ-type question. Take the 20 questions and ack your answers carefully. ‘Time yourself very carefully and work as.quickly as you can. ‘Time Started: 1. The day before ¢wo days after the day before tomorrow is SATURDAY. What day is it today? 7 2. What comes next, most logically, in the following sequence? SAIBLCVDEERFAGNHNIIJ VKELRMSNAOR aPY bBQ cRR. GBR 3, What is one twentieth of one half of one tenth of 10,0002 4, What is the following scrambled word? NNREAIVARYS 5. In the following examples, each set of symbols stands for a word. Seudy all three ‘words given and the symbol equivalent and teanslace the fourth line into a word, AQOOSA = AOVAA OBA wins © V 6. Which of the sentences given below means approximately the same as: "Beauty is only skin deep"? Some actresses arc made up by the studios so that you cannot cell what they really look like. ‘Don't judge a book by its cover Some people have prettier appearances then others, 4. Good looks don't matter that rach. HANDOUT 24-6 I Module 24 Bt Inteligence and Intelligence TestingHANDOUT 24-6 (continued) 8, 10. aw 12, 13. M4, 15, 16. 17, Which of the figures shown below the Line of drawings best continues the sequence? Pq] Se Canoe is to ocean linet as glider is to akite b.airplane —¢. balloon — d. car Everyone at the Mensa party contest won prizes. ‘Tom won more chan Sally; Ann won less than Jane; Jane won less than Sally but more than Wales, Walter won fewer prizes than Aan. Who won the most prizes? ‘There is one five-leteer word which can be inserted in each of the ewo blanks below. When you have put in the right word, you will have four new words, two on each Tine, (Example: Place WORK on the line between HAND __PLACE, giving HANDWORK and WORKPLACE.) BOAT. WORK DOG.____HOLD ‘Tom, Jim, Peter, Susan, and Jane all took the Mensa test. Jane scored higher than “Tom, Jim scored lower than Pecer but higher than Susan, and Peter scored lower than Tom. All of chem are eligible to join Mensa, but who had the highest score? Fit were ewo hours later, it would be half as long, unc if ic were an hous later. What time is ie now? midnight as it would be Pear is to apple as potato is to! banana b.radish strawberry. leetuce Continue the following number series below with the group of numbers which best continues the series 110395877962? all5 BIOS 104 A116 Which of the following is least like che others? a. poem b. novel c. painting d, statue ¢. flower What is the following word when it is unscrambled? HCPRAATEU ‘What is the number that is one half of one quarter of one tenth of four hundred? HANDOUT 24-6 Ml Module 24 Intligence and Inteligence TestingHANDOUT 24-6 (continued) 18. 19, 20. ‘Which of the sentences given below means approximately the same as the proverb: “Don’e coune yonr chickens until they are hatched”? 2. Some egas have double yolks so you can't relly count eggs and chickens b. You can’e walk aronnd the henhouse to count the egas because ie will discus the hens and they won't lay eggs. Tes not really sensible to rely on something that bas not yet happened and -may not ever happen. d. Since eggs break so easily, you may not be accurate in your count of fature chickens “The same four-leteer word can be placed on the blank lines below to make eo new words from each of chose shown, Put in che correct fous-lercer word vo make four new words from those shown below. (Bxample: HAND could be placed between BACK ___ WORK to make BACKHAND AND HANDWORK.) HEAD MARK ‘DREAM ALL ‘Which of the figutes shown below the line of drawings best completes the seties? TT TT ie TT I LU LU LU LL TTT T a | LETH {LUI b © ‘Time finished: ‘Sources Inelligance tet from Sercbakol, V, be Soy, A. (1980). Te Mense bok of wordy, word ome, pasa, and wii (op. 145-149), New York: HarperCollion. Copyighe © 1988 by Abbie FSalny. Reprinted by perminion of HapeCallin Publishes, le. HANDOUT 24-6 B Module 24 if Inieligence and intligence Testing