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All the items belong on the dinner table. Exclusively one
diner uses the objects on the left. The salt and pepper may
be used by all of the diners. Figure 4-7: All the objects are
tools. The flashlight is the only one that requires batteries
and the only one that is not mechanical. Figure 4-8: All the
objects are food. All items on the left are fruit, and the broc-
coli is a vegetable. Figure 4-9: Answers may vary with each
reader’s creativity and the many relationships among the
objects drawn. Some examples are things in cans, things for
sports, dogs, things from Germany.

When You Say . . . I Say . . .

Solutions: You may have different associations for these
prompts. These are sample responses. 1. pepper 2. wife 3.
Juliet 4. Costello 5. the Wright brothers 6. shoes (or the Clin-
tons’ cat) 7. south 8. down 9. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 10.
Declaration of Independence 11. Idaho 12. thread, or per-
haps haystack

Deck Four
Solutions: 1. all even numbers, in a sequence 2. all odd num-
bers in a sequence 3. all queens 4. two pairs, Kings and Jacks;
all of them are male cards 5. 6 + 4 = 10 and 5 + 5 = 10 6. Feb-
ruary 6, 1949 7. pair of Kings, each worth 10 points, and 9 + A
counts at 10 points as well

Information-Processing Postassessment
A good attack on this problem is to make an association for
person-relation-interest-gift-gift. That will help you figure out
most of the answers.
Solutions: Give yourself one point for each of the fol-
lowing answers:

1. Lewis
2. $30
3. aluminum-can crusher, interstate highway map, and
recycling bins