The original purpose for developing the first intelligence tests in the early part of the twentieth century was:

a. to identify children who would not do well in school
b. to provide a reason to discriminate against children from African descent
c. to give the French government a means of selecting especially talented children for placement in state-funded educational programs for the gifted
d. to study how physical health and intelligence were related

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