Answer all questions carefully. Trust your first impulse.
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1.
When you have your picture taken, do you:
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A)
Smile and lower your head
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B)
Stand firm and show your teeth
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2.
Do you wear:
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A) Red
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B) Gray
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3.
Someone bumps into you on the street. Do you:
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A)
Lie down in their path
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B)
Open fire
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4.
For your parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary, you:
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A)
Compose a song
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B)
Review their investment portfolio
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5.
Which would you rather have?
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A)
A fluffy bunny
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B)
A vicious dog
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6.
You are given an assignment to improve the employee manual. You:
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A)
Polish and gild the cover
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B)
Re-index the footnotes to the glossary
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7.
Which do you prefer?
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A)
Clouds
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B)
Power
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8.
You are stuck in an elevator with someone of whom you are fond. The lights go out. You:
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A)
Build a fire, undress and tell ghost
stories
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B)
Discuss the relationship between fear
and intimacy
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9.
You are invited to a party. Do you:
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A)
Do the laundry
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B)
Show off your tattoos
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10.
Your hero is:
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A)
The artist formerly known as Prince
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B)
The Secretary of Agriculture
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11.
When answering the phone, you say:
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A)
"Hello?"
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B)
"Hello!"
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12.
In an intimate moment, you find yourself calling out the wrong person's name. You:
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A)
Pretend you are speaking another language
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B)
Pretend you are dictating a memo
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13.
On your day off, you like to:
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A)
Sleep
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B)
Eat
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14.
When confronting an important decision, do you feel more comfortable:
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A)
On the roof
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B)
On the leading edge
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15.
You find a thick wallet at your subway stop. You are alone. You:
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A)
Leave your wallet there in sympathy
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B)
Add it to your collection
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16.
A woman and a baby are trapped in two different rooms in a burning building. The phone lines have been cut. The woman is terminally ill, but the baby is predisposed to criminal insanity. You are ten minutes late to an important interview. What approach would best serve the interests of all concerned?
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A)
Rain dancing
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B)
Drafting a subcommittee mission statement
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17.
You are traveling alone in a foreign country and you are arrested. What do you do?
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A)
Confess
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B)
Escape
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18.
Do you value:
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A)
Insight
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B)
Foresight
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Copyright 1998 by Eli Bishop and Barbara Byrnes. All rights repressed.
(Inspired by the Keirsey Temperament Sorter -- the most recent incarnation of a long tradition that never seems to die. Like our test, it divides all of humanity into four categories, but it requires you to answer 70 questions and it costs a whole 50 cents. Judge for yourself which is the better value.)