1. Describe your dolls and get children to do the same; whether of wax, rags, paper, pasteboard, rubber, china, wood, stone, etc., and give instances where clothes pins, nails, bottles, vegetables, sticks, flowers, keys, button hooks, etc, have been regarded as dolls in any respect or in any degree.
2. Feeding … Describe imaginary foods, dishes, spoons, and other utensils. Is there any regularly or system of feeding, and any hunger starvation, food preferences, or growth imagined.
3. Medicines, diseases. What diseases, pains, symptoms are imagined. How is sympathy shown… How, and with what conceptions. Imaginary doll doctors, their visit and functions…
4. What constitutes the death of a doll. Funeral services, and burial of dolls. When lost or crushed do children assume a future life for the doll, and does this assuage their grief.
5. Give details of psychic acts and qualities ascribed to the dolls, and show how real, how treated, etc., are their feelings of cold, fatigue, anger, pain, jealousy, love, hate, goodness and badness, modesty, tidiness, etc. Is any individuality or moral or other characteristics consistently and persistently ascribed to dolls.
6. Dolls’ names. Are they of real persons, and if so, is their any resemblance real or fancied.
7. Accessories and furnishings, toilet, articles, clothes, beds, tables and dishes…for the doll, etc…
8. Doll families, and the relationship of the members, doll schools, doll parties, balls, entertainment, weddings.
9. Doll discipline, hygiene and regimen. What toilet and what rewards and punishments are usual, and what moral qualities are aimed at.
10. Dolls’ sleep. How are they put to sleep…
11. Dress … Can taste in dress, tidiness…or other moral qualities be cultivated. How does the material of which the doll is made and the degree of life-like perfection react on the child. Is there regularly and persistency in the care of the dolls…(1896: 129-130).

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