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1. For a person you loved deeply, would
you be willing to move to a distant
country knowing there would be little
chance of seeing your friends or family
again?
2. Do you believe in ghosts or evil spirits?
Would you be willing to spend a
night alone in a remote house that is
supposedly haunted?
3. If you could spend one year in perfect
happiness but afterward would
remember nothing of the experience,
would you do so? If not, why not?
4. If you were to die this evening with no
opportunity to communicate with anyone,
what would you most regret not
having told someone? Why haven't
you told them yet?
5. If a new medicine were developed that
would cure arthritis but cause a fatal
reaction in 1 percent of those who
took it, would you want it to be
released to the public?
6. You discover your wonderful one-yearold
child is, because of a mix up at the
hospital, not yours. Would you want to
exchange the child to try to correct
the mistake?
7. Do you think that the world will be a
better or a worse place 100 years
from now?
8. Would you accept $1,000,000 to leave
the country and never set foot in it
9. Would you rather be a member of a
world championship sports team or be
the champion of an individual sport?
Which sport would you choose?
10. Which sex do you think has it easier in
our culture? Have you ever wished
you were of the opposite sex?
11. You are given the power to kill people
simply by thinking of their deaths and
twice repeating the word "good-bye."
People would die a natural death and
no one would suspect you. Are there
any situations in which you would use
this power?
12. If you were able to live to the age of
90 and retain either the body or the
mind of a 30-year-old for the last 60
years of your life, which would you
want?
13. What would constitute a "perfect"
evening for you?
14. Would you rather be extremely successful
professionally and have a tolerable
yet unexciting private life, or
have an extremely happy private life
and only a tolerable and uninspiring
professional life?
15. Whom do you admire most? In what
way does that person inspire you?
16. If at birth you could select the profession
your child would eventually pursue,
would you do so?
17. Would you be willing to become
extremely ugly physically if it meant
you would live for 1,000 years at any
physical age you chose?
18. If you could wake up tomorrow having
gained any one ability or quality, what
would it be?
19. You have the chance to meet someone
with whom you can have the most
satisfying love imaginable-the stuff of
dreams. Sadly, you know that in six
months the person will die. Knowing
the pain that would follow, would you
still want to meet the person and fall
in love? What if you knew your lover
would not die, but instead would
betray you?
20. If you knew of a way to use your
estate, following your death, to greatly
benefit humanity, would you do it
and leave only a minimal amount to
your family?
21. Do you prefer being around men or
women? Do your closest friends tend
to be men or women?
22. If you could use a voodoo doll to hurt
anyone you chose, would you?
23. Are there people you envy enough to
want to trade lives with them? Who
are they?
24. For an all-expense-paid, one-week
vacation anywhere in the world, would
you be willing to kill a beautiful butterfly
by pulling off its wings? What
about stepping on a cockroach?
25. Would you be willing to murder an
innocent person if it would end hunger
in the world?
26. If a prophet you have a faith in
appeared to you in a series of vivid
and moving dreams and told you to
leave everything behind, travel alone
to the Red Sea and become a fisherman,
what would you do? What if you
were told to sacrifice your child?
27. What is your most treasured memory?
28. Have you ever hated anyone? If so,
why and for how long?
29. Would you rather be given $10,000 for
your own use or $100,000 to give
anonymously to strangers? What if
you could keep $1,000,000 or give
away $20,000,000?
30. If you knew there would be a nuclear
war in one week, what would you do?
31. Would you accept twenty years of
extraordinary happiness and fulfillment
if it meant you would die at the
end of the period?
32. What is the greatest accomplishment
of your life? Is there anything you
hope to do that is even better?
33. What was your most enjoyable
dream? Your worst nightmare?
34. Would you give up half of what you
now own for a pill that would permanently
change you so that one hour of
sleep each day would fully refresh
you?
35. If you knew you could devote yourself
to any single occupation-music, writing,
acting, business, politics, medicine,
etc.-and be among the best and
most successful in the world at it,
what would you choose?
36. What was your worst experience with
drugs or alcohol?
37. If you went to a dinner party and were
offered a dish you had never tried,
would you want to taste it even if it
sounded strange and not very appealing?
38. Do your close friends tend to be older
or younger than you?
39. If the person you were engaged to
marry had an accident and became a
paraplegic, would you go through with
the marriage or back out of it?
40. Your house, containing everything you
own, catches fire; after saving your
loved ones and pets, you have time to
safely make a final dash to save any
one item. What would it be?
41. When were you last in a fight? What
caused it and who won?
42. You are offered $1,000,000 for the following
act: Before you are ten pistolsonly
one of which is loaded. You must
pick up one of the pistols, point it at
your forehead, and pull the trigger. If
you can walk away you do so a millionaire.
Would you accept the risk?
43. Someone very close to you is in pain,
paralyzed, and will die within a month.
He begs you to give him poison so
that he can die. Would you? What if it
were your father?"
44. When did you last sing to yourself? To
someone else?
45. You have the power to go any distance
into the future and, after one year,
return to the present with any knowledge
you have gained from your experience
but with no physical objects.
Would you make the journey if it carried
a 20 percent risk of death?
46. Given the choice of anyone in the
world, whom would you want as your
dinner guest? As your close friend? As
your lover?
47. While parking late at night, you slightly
scrape the side of a Porsche. You
are certain no one else is aware of
what happened. The damage is minor
and would not be covered by insurance.
Would you leave a note?
48. If you could choose the manner of
your death, what would it be?
49. Do you have any specific long-term
goals? What is one and how do you
plan on reaching it?
50. For what in your life do you feel most
grateful?
51. How do you react when people sing
"Happy Birthday" to you in a restaurant?
52. What is the worst psychological torture
you can imagine suffering?
Anything causing even minor physical
injury should not be considered.
53. Would you like your spouse to be both
smarter and more attractive than you?
54. If you found that a good friend had
AIDS, would you avoid him? What if
your brother or sister had it?
55. A good friend pulls off a well-conceived
practical joke that plays on one
of your foibles and makes you look
ridiculous. How would you react?
56. By controlling medical research funds,
you are in the position to guarantee
that a cure will be found in 15 years
for any disease you choose.
Unfortunately, no progress on any
others would be made during that
period. Would you target one disease?
57. Would you add one year to your life if
it meant taking one year from the life
of someone in the world selected at
random? Would it matter if you were
told whose life you had shortened?
58. If you walked out of your house one
morning and saw a bird with a broken
wing huddled in some nearby bushes,
what would you do?
59. Assume there were a technological
breakthrough that would allow people
to travel as easily and cheaply
between continents as between nearby
cities. Unfortunately, there would
also be 100,000 deaths a year from
the device. Would you try to prevent
its use?
60. You and a person you love deeply are
placed in separate rooms with a button
next to each of you. You know that
you will both be killed unless one of
you presses your button before 60
minutes pass; furthermore, the first to
press the button will save the other
person, but will immediately be killed.
What do you think you would do?
61. When you tell a story, do you often
exaggerate or embellish it? If so, why?
62. Do you feel that advice from older
people carries a special weight
because of their greater experience?
63. Without your kidney as a transplant,
someone close to you will die within
one month. The odds that you will survive
the operation are only 50 percent,
but should you survive you
would be certain of a normal life
expectancy. Would you consent to the
operation
64. When has your life dramatically
changed as the result of some seemingly
random external influence? How
much do you feel in control of the
course of your life?
65. If a friend were almost always late,
would you resent it or simply allow for
it? Can you be counted on to be on
time?
66. When did you last yell at someone?
Why? Did you later regret it?
67. Would you be willing to have horrible
nightmares every night for a year if
you would be rewarded with extraordinary
wealth?
68. If you could have free, unlimited service
for five years from an extremely
good cook, chauffeur, housekeeper,
masseuse, or personal secretary,
which would you choose?
69. Would you enjoy spending a month of
solitude in a beautiful natural setting?
Food and shelter would be provided
but you would not see another person.
70. After a medical examination, your
doctor calls and gravely says you have
a rare lymphatic cancer and only a few
months to live. Five days later, she
informs you that the lab tests were
mislabeled; you are perfectly
healthy. Forced for a moment to look
death in the face, you have been
allowed to turn and go on. During
those difficult days you would certainly
have gained some insights about
yourself. Do you think they would be
worth the pain?
71. One hot summer afternoon, while
walking through a parking lot at a
large shopping center, you notice a
dog suffering badly from the heat
inside a locked car. What would you
do?
72. Do you feel ill at ease going alone to
either dinner or a movie? What about
going on a vacation by yourself?
73. If you knew that in one year you
would die suddenly, would you change
anything about the way you are now
living?
74. For $20,000 would you go for three
months without washing, brushing
your teeth, or using deodorant?
Assume you could not explain your
reasons to anyone, and that there
would be no long-term effect on your
career.
75. Would you rather die peacefully
among friends at age 50, or painfully
and alone at age 80? Assume that
most of the last 30 years would be
good ones.
76. If you were to discover that your closest
friend was a heroin dealer, what
would you do?
77. Is it easy for you to accept help when
you need it? Will you ask for help?
78. If you were helping to raise money for
a charity and someone agreed to
make a large contribution if you would
perform at the upcoming fund-raising
show, would you? If so, what would
you like to perform? Assume the show
would have an audience of about
1,000.
79. Would you have one of your fingers
surgically removed if it somehow
guaranteed immunity from all major
diseases?
80. Would you like to be famous? In what
way?
81. How do you picture your funeral? Is it
important for you to have people
mourn your death?
82. Which of the following restrictions
could you best tolerate? : leaving the
country permanently, or never leaving
the state in which you now live
83. You, your closest friend, and your
father are on vacation together, hiking
in a remote jungle. Your two companions
stumble into a nest of poisonous
vipers and are bitten repeatedly. You
know neither will live without an
immediate shot of anti-venom, yet
there is only a single dose of antivenom
and it is in your pocket. What
84. If you could choose the sex and physical
appearance of your soon-to-beborn
child, would you do it?"
85. Would you rather play a game with
someone more or less talented than
you? Would it matter who was watching?
86. Is there something you've dreamed of
doing for a long time? Why haven't
you done it?'
87. On a busy street you are approached
apologetically by a well-dressed
stranger who asks for a dollar to catch
a bus and make a phone call. He says
he has lost his wallet. What would you
do? If approached in the same way by
a haggard-looking stranger claiming
to be hungry and unable to find a job,
88. If by sacrificing your life you could
contribute so much to the world that
you would be honored in all nations,
would you be willing to do so? If so,
would you make the same sacrifice
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