The Book Of Questions
Gregory Stock, Ph.D.
Workman Publishing, New York
First Published in January 1985
Table Of Contents         Question #1

Table of Contents
Introduction About
The Author		 Question #1 Further
Questions		 Selected
Questions

Introduction

This is not a book of trivia questions, so don't bother to look here for the name of either Tonto's horse or the shortstop for the 1923 Yankees. These are questions of a different sort -- questions about you. They are about your values, your beliefs, and your life; love, money, sex, integrity, generosity, pride, and death are all here. Here is an enjoyable way to find out more about yourself and others, and to confront ethical dilemmas in a concrete rather than an abstract form. To respond to these questions, you will need to examine and interpret your past, project yourself into hypothetical situations, face difficult dilemmas, and make painful choices. These questions can be an avenue for individual growth, a tool for deepening relationships, a quick way to get to know a stranger, or merely a pleasant amusement.

These questions expose issues that warrant deep, solitary reflection, but also are particularly stimulating when explored with others. You will be surprised how effectively these questions catalyze unusual and rewarding discussions. A passing interaction with a woman in a cafe led me into an intoxicating five-hour tete-a-tete. A conversation with a long-standing friend gave me some valuable new insights about my life. A dull evening with some acquaintances was transformed into an exciting encounter lasting into the early-morning hours.

When conversing, we often exchange small talk without being very involved in our conversation; broach the questions here and see what happens. Start giving yourself permission to voice those dangerous questions you've never quite been willing to ask, those provocative thoughts whispered by an inner voice and soon forgotten. Too frequently we pull back from bringing up questions that seem awkward or intrusive, yet these are the very ones that will open paths to understanding and intimacy. When people encounter someone inquisitive who genuinely wants to hear what they have to say, far from being offended, they are usually eager to talk about the important things on their minds.

Enough different types of questions are posed here to enable you to identify both the subjects you shy away from and the ones you are drawn to. We react strongly to questions that touch our own unresolved conflicts, so the questions you avoid may be the ones you need to consider most. Are you fascinated by questions about heatlh and mortality? Do you skip questions with a sexual slant? In this book successive questions probe unrelated issues, so whether you read pages in order or jump around, you will face unexpected topics. As you discuss these questions, keep in mind that the emotional tone and color of a person's reply may communicate even more than the words themselves do.

There are no correct or incorrect answers to these questions, only honest or dishonest ones. Can you know what you would do in a strange hypothetical situation? Of course you can't, but why let that inhibit you? This is a chance to gain insights without actually living through the predicaments described. Let yourself be swept up in these situations so that you care about the choices you make. Resist the temptation to escape from a question by denying its reality or by coming up with some complication that obscures the basic issue. Ignore the paradoxes of time-travel and the impossibility of various magical powers. Accept that conditions are as described, that odds are accurate, that promises will be fulfilled, and furthermore, that you know this when you are making your decisions.

Don't simply answer "Yes" or "No" to these questions -- probe and explain your responses and pursue interesting tangents. Use the questions as a point of departure and give your imagination full rein as you play with the situations described. Take an active role in toying with the conditions presented by extending them, changing them, and expanding them. If you feel a question lacks detail or is unclear, make an assumption that will correct the problem. As you explore and challenge your values and the values of your friends, you may soon discover questioning has become much more than just an entertaining pastime.

About The Author

Gregory Stock received his doctorate in bio-physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1977 and has published papers on bacterial motility, amphibian limb regeneration, laser light-scattering, and 3-dimensional computer reconstruction. He also developed electronic-banking sofware for Citicorp and graduated as a Baker Scholar from the Harvard Business School. He is now writing another book and doing research related to non-profit foundations.

Selected Questions

Selected questions are marked with an asterisk to indicate that corresponding follow-up questions can be found at the back of the book, staring on page 181 (Question 201).

Table Of Contents


Question #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?


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Question #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?


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Question #3

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?


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Question #4

If you could spend one year in a perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of the experience, would you do so?

If not, why not?


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Question #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?


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Question #6

You discover your wounderful one-year-old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital,
not yours.

Would you want to exchange the child
to try to correct the mistake?


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Question #7

Do you think that the world
will be a better or a worse place
100 years from now?


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Question #8

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?


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Question #9

Would you accept $1,000,000
to leave the country
and never set foot in it again?


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Question #10

Which sex do you think
has it easier in our culture?

Have you ever wished
you were of the opposite sex?


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Question #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?


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Question #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?


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Question #13

What would constitute
a "perfect" evening for you?


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Question #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?


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Question #15

Whom do you admire most?

In what way does that person inspire you?


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Question #16

If at birth you could select the profession
your child would eventually pursue,
would you do so?


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Question #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?


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Question #18

If you could wake up tomorrow
having gained any one ability or quality,
what would it be?


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Question #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?

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Question #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?


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Question #21

Do you prefer being around men or women?

Do your closest friends tend to be
men or women?


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Question #22

If you could use a voodoo doll
to hurt anyone you chose, would you?


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Question #23

While on a trip to another city, your spouse (or lover)
meets and spends a night with an exciting stranger.
Given that they will never meet again, and that you
will not otherwise learn of the incident,
would you want your partner to tell you about it?

If roles were reversed,
would you reveal what you had done?

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Question #24

Are there people you envy enough
to want to trade lives with them?

Who are they?


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Question #25

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 cock-roach?


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Question #26

Would you be willing to murder an innocent
person if it would end hunger in the world?


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Question #27

If God 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?


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Question #28

What is your most treasured memory?


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Question #29

Have you ever hated anyone?

If so, why and for how long?


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Question #30

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?


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Question #31

If you knew there would be
a nuclear war in one week,
what would you do?


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Question #32

Would you accept twenty years
of extraordinary happiness and fulfillment
if it meant you would die
at the end of the period?


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Question #33

What is the greatest
accomplishment of your life?

Is there anything you hope to do
that is even better?


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Question #34

What was your most enjoyable dream?

What was your worst nightmare?


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Question #35

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?


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Question #36

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?

If you knew you had only a 10 percent
chance of being so successful,
would you still put in the effort?


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Question #37

What was your best experience
with drugs or alcohol?

What was your worst experience
with drugs or alcohol?


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Question #38

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?


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Question #39

Do your close friends
tend to be older or younger than you?


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Question #40

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?


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Question #41

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?


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Question #42

How would you react if you were to learn
that your mate had had a lover
of the same sex before you knew each other?


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Question #43

When were you last in a fight?

What caused it and who won?


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Question #44

You are offered $1,000,000 for the following act:

Before you are ten pistols.
Only 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?

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Question #45

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?


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Question #46

When did you last sing to yourself?

When did you last sing to someone else?


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Question #47

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 50 percent risk of death?


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Question #48

Given the choice of anyone in the world,
whom would you want as your dinner guest?

Whom would you want as your close friend?

Whom would you want as your lover?


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Question #49

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?

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Question #50

If you could choose the manner
of your death, what would it be?


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Question #51

Do you have any specific
long-term goals?

What is one and how
do you plan on reaching it?


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Question #52

For what in your life
do you feel most grateful?


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Question #53

How do you react when people sing
"Happy Birthday"
to you in a restaurant?


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Question #54

What is the worst psychological torture
you can imagine suffering?

Anything causing even minor
physical injury should not be considered.


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Question #55

Would you like your spouse to be
both smarter and more attractive than you?


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Question #56

If you found that a good friend had AIDS,
would you avoid him?

What if your brother or sister had it?


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Question #57

Would you be willing to give up sex
for one year if you knew it would
give you a much deeper sense
of peace than you have now?


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Question #58

A good friend pulls off a well-conceived
practical joke that plays on
one of your foibles (weakness)
and makes you look ridiculous.

How would you react?


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Question #59

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?


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Question #60

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?


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Question #61

Can you urinate
in front of another person?


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Question #62

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?


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Question #63

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?


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Question #64

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?

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Question #65

When you tell a story,
do you often exaggerate or embellish it?

If so, why?


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Question #66

Do you feel that advice from older people
carries a special weight
because of their greater experience?


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Question #67

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?

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Question #68

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?


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Question #69

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?


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Question #70

When did you last yell at someone?

Why?

Did you later regret it?


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Question #71

Would you be willing to have
horrible nightmares every night
for a year if you would be rewarded
with extraordinary wealth?


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Question #72

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?


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Question #73

Would you be willing to go
to a slaughter-house and kill a cow?

Do you eat meat?


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Question #74

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.


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Question #75


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?

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Question #76

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?


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Question #77

Do you feel ill at ease going alone
to either dinner or a movie?

What about going
on a vacation by yourself?


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Question #78

If you knew that in one year
you would die suddenly,
would you change anything
about the way you are now living?


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Question #79

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.


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Question #80

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.


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Question #81

If you were to discover
that your closest friend
was a heroin dealer,
what would you do?


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Question #82

Is it easy for you to accept help
when you need it?

Will you ask for help?


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Question #83

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.


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Question #84

Would you have one of your fingers
surgically removed if it somehow guaranteed
immunity from all major diseases?


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Question #85

Would you like to be famous?

In what way?


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Question #86

How do you picture your funeral?

Is it important for you
to have people mourn your death?


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Question #87

Which of the following restrictions
could you best tolerate:
leaving the country permanently,
or never leaving the state
in which you now live?


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Question #88

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 immeidate
shot of anti-venom, yet there is only a single dose
of anti-venom and it is in your pocket.

What would you do?

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Question #89

Where would you choose to be
if you could place yourself anywhere
on a scale from one to ten,
where one is hardship, struggle,
and extraordinary accomplishment
and ten is comfort, peace of mind,
and no accomplishment.

Why?
Where are you now?


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Question #90

If you could choose the sex
and physical appearance
of your soon-to-be-born child,
would you do it?


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Question #91

Would you rather play a game
with someone more or less
talented than you?

Would it matter who was watching?


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Question #92

Is there something you've dreamed
of doing for a long time?

Why haven't you done it?


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Question #93

While in the government, you discover the President
is commiting extortion and other serious crimes.
By exposing the situation you might bring about
the President's downfall, but your career would be
destroyed because you would be framed,
fired, and publicly humiliated on other matters.

Knowing you would be vindicated five years later,
would you blow the whistle?

What if you knew you would never be vindicated?

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Question #94

On a busy street you are approached
apologeticallly 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,
what would you do?


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Question #95

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
knowing that someone you thoroughly disliked
would receive the honor
while you went unrecognized?


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Question #96

Knowing you had a 50 percent chance
of winning and would be paid 10 times
the amount of your bet if you won,
what fraction of what you now own
would you be willing to wager?


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Question #97

What are your most compulsive habits?

Do you regularly struggle
to break these habits?


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Question #98

You know you will die of an
incurable disease within three months.

Would you allow yourself to be frozen
within the week if you knew it would
give you a modest chance of being revived
in 1,000 years and living
a greatly extended life?


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Question #99

You are driving late at night in a safe
but deserted neighborhood when a dog
suddenly darts in front of your car.
Though you slam on the brakes,
you hit the animal.

Would you stop to see how injured the animal was?

If you did so and found that the dog was dead
but had a name tag, would you contact the owner?

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Question #100

What do you most strive for in your life:
accomplishment, security, love, power,
excitement, knowledge, or something else?


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Question #101

An eccentric millionaire offers to donate
a large sum to charity if you will step
-- completely naked -- from a car onto a
busy downtown street, walk four blocks,
and climb back into the car

Knowing that there would be no danger
of physical abuse, would you do it?


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Question #102

How close and warm is your family?

Do you feel your childhood
was happier than most other people's?


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Question #103

Does the fact that you have
never done something before
increase or decrease
its appeal to you?


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Question #104

Would you be willing to give up sex
for five years if you could have
wonderfully sensual and erotic dreams
any night you wished?


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Question #105

At a meal, your friends start
belittling a common acquaintance.

If you felt their criticisms were unjustified,
would you defend the person?


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Question #106

Do you usually make a special effort
to thank someone who does you a favor?

How do you react when you aren't thanked
for going out of your way for someone?


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Question #107

Would you like to have your rate
of physical aging slowed by a factor of thirty
so as to give you a life expectancy
of about 2,000 years?


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Question #108

You are invited to a party that will be attended
by many fascinating people you've never met.

Would you want to go
if you had to go by yourself?


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Question #109

Since adolescence, in what three-year period
do you feel you experienced
the most personal growth and change?


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Question #110

If you were having difficulty on an important
test and could safely cheat by looking at
someone else's paper, would you do so?


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Question #111

If your parents became infirm
(not mentally or physically strong)
and the only alternative to bringing them into
your home was to put them in a nursing home,
would you do so?

What about a sister or brother who suffered
a permanently crippling injury and
-- other than your home --
had nowhere to go but a convalescent home?


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Question #112

If you were at a friend's house
for Thanksgiving dinner
and you found a dead cockroach in your salad,
what would you do?


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Question #113

If you could take a one-month trip
anywhere in the world
and money were not a consideration,
where would you go
and what would you do?


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Question #114

Would you be willing
to reduce your life expectancy
by five years to become
extremely attractive?


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Question #115

Given the ability to project yourself
into the past but not return,
would you do so?

Where would you go and what would you try
to accomplish if you knew
you might change the course of history?


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Question #116

How many different sexual partners
have you had in your life?

Would you prefer
to have had more or fewer?


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Question #117

Have you ever considered suicide?

What is so important to you
that without it
life would not be worth living?


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Question #118

If your friends and acquaintances
were willing to bluntly and honestly
tell you what they really thought of you,
would you want them to?


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Question #119

If this country were to suffer
an unprovoked nuclear attack
and would be totally obliterated
in a matter of minutes,
would you favor unleashing
the U.S. nuclear aresenal
upon the attackers?


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Question #120

Would you accept $10,000
to shave your head and continue
your normal activities sans (without)
hat or wig without explaining
the reason for your haircut?


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Question #121

Were you able to wake up tomorrow
in the body of someone else,
would you do so?

Whom would you pick?


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Question #122

If you were happily married,
and then met someone you felt
was certain to always bring you
deeply passionate, intoxicating love,
would you leave your spouse?

What if you had kids?


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Question #123

When you do something ridiculous,
how much does it bother you
to have other people notice it
and laugh at you?


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Question #124

Who is the most important
person in your life?

What could you do to improve
the relationship?

Will you ever do it?


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Question #125

Assuming that complete recovery
were instantaneous, would you be willing
to accept a year of complete paralysis
below the neck to prevent the otherwise
certain extinction of the blue whale?


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Question #126

Do you believe in capital punishment?

Would you be willing to execute a man
sentenced to death by the courts
if you were selected by lot to do so
and he would go free if you refused?

Assume you know no details of the trial.


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Question #127

If you could change anything
about the way you were raised,
what would it be?


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Question #128

You are at a lake with some friends;
the sun is warm and the water is cold.
Going into the water would temporarily
chill you but you know that later
the warm sun would be even more enjoyable
and you would be glad you had gone in.

Would you take the plunge?


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Question #129

Do you believe in any sort of God?

If not, do you think you might still pray
if you were in a life-threatening situation?


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Question #130

While out one day, you are surprised to see
your mother holding hands with someone who
is clearly her lover. She notices you, runs over,
and begs you not to say anything to your father.
How would you respond?

What would you do if your father later told you
that he was going crazy because he kept
thinking your mother was having an affair yet
knew it was just his imagination?


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Question #131

If 100 people your age were chosen at random,
how many do you think you'd find leading a
more satisfying life than yours?


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Question #132

If you went to a beach
and it turned out to be a nude beach,
would you stay and go swimming?

Would you swim nude?


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Question #133

Have you had satisfying sex
within the last three months?


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Question #134

Would it disturb you much if,
upon your death, your body were simply
thrown into the woods and left to rot?

Why?


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Question #135

Which would you prefer:
a wild, turbulent life filled with joy, sorrow,
passion, and adventure -- intoxicating successes
and stunning setbacks;

or a happy, secure, predictable life
surrounded by friends and family
without such wide swings
of fortune and mood?


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Question #136

If you knew your child would be severely
retarded and would die by the age of five,
would you decide to have an abortion?


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Question #137

Do you find it so hard
to say "No"
that you regularly do favors
you do not want to do?

If so, why?


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Question #138

If you began to be very attracted
to someone of another race,
how would your behavior differ
from what it would be toward
someone of your own race?


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Question #139

Would you rather spend a month
on vacation with your parents
or put in overtime at your current job
for four weeks without extra compensations?


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Question #140

Would you like to know
the precise date of your death?


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Question #141

Would you accept a guaranteed,
lifetime allowance of $50,000 per year
(adjusted annually for inflation)
if accepting it meant that you
could never again earn money
from either work or invenstments?


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Question #142

What, if anything,
is too serious to be joked about?


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Question #143

Do you ever spit
or pick your nose in public?

What about cleaning
your teeth with a toothpick?


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Question #144

A close friend asks -- and genuinely wants --
your opinion about something, but your opinion
is one that he is likely to find quite painful.

For example, your friend is an artist and asks
your honest estimate of his chances of being successful.
You think he is an atrocious artist
who hasn't the slighest chance of success.

What would you do?

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Question #145

Do you have a favorite sexual fantasy?

Would you like to have it fulfilled?


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Question #146

If you knew a thermonuclear holocaust
would occur in precisely 20 years
and no one would survive it,
how would you change your present life?


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Question #147

When did you last cry
in front of another person?

When did you last cry
by yourself?


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Question #148

If, by having a 2 inch by 2 inch tattoo,
you could save five lives and prevent
a terrorist attack, would you do so?

If you were allowed to select
the location and design,
where would you have it
and what would the design be?


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Question #149

Someone you love deeply is brutally murdered
and you know the identity of the murderer,
who unfortunately is acquitted of the crime.

Would you seek revenge?


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Question #150

Would you be willing to give up all television
for the next five years if it would
induce someone to provide for
1,000 starving children in Indonesia?


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Question #151

While arguing with a close friend on the
telephone, she gets angry and hangs up.

Assuming she is at fault and makes no attempt
to contact you, how long would you wait
to get in touch with her?


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Question #152

What do you value most
in a relationship?


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Question #153

If you learned you would die
in a few days,
what regrets would you have?

Were you given five extra years of life,
could you avoid those same regrets
five years hence?


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Question #154

Do you judge others
by higher or lower standards
than you use to judge yourself?


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Question #155

Would you be willing to make a substantial
sacrifice to have any of the following:
your picture on a postage stamp,
your statue in a park,
a college named after you,
a Nobel prize,
a national holiday in your honor?


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Question #156

On an airplane you are talking pleasantly
to a stranger of average appearance.

Unexpectedly, the person offers you
$10,000 for one night of sex.

Knowing that there is no danger
and that payment is certain,
would you accept the offer?


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Question #157

If you had to spend the next two years
inside a small but fully provisioned
Antarctic shelter with one other person,
whom would you like to have with you?


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Question #158

You notice a self-destructinve behavior pattern
in a friend who is clearly unaware of it.

Would you point it out?


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Question #159

If you had the choice of one intimate soulmate
and no other close friends,
or of no such soulmate and many friends
and acquaintances,
which would you choose?


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Question #160

You become involved romantically but after six months
realize you need to end the realationship.

If you were certain the person would commit suicide
if you were to leave and were also certain
you could not be happy with the person,

What would you do?

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Question #161

If you wanted to look very sexy,
how would you dress?


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Question #162

For $2,000 would you be willing to
stand up in a crowded restaurant and,
for at least a minute, loudly berate a waitress
for some trivial imperfection in the service?

If not, consider how grateful the waitress
would be if you did so
and later split the money with her.


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Question #163

If there were a public execution
on television, would you watch it?


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Question #164

If someone offered you a large amount
of money for some information
about one of your company's products,
would you accept it?

Assume you know you won't be dicovered.


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Question #165

Do you consider yourself well organized?

How often do you have to look for your keys?


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Question #166

If you could increase your I.Q.
by forty points by having an ugly scar
stretching from your mouth to your eye,
would you do so?


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Question #167

Would you be willing
to do something very unsatisfying
(for example, clean toilets)
for five years if you were certain
that the experience would afterwards
bring you a deep sense of
personal fulfillment for the rest of your life?


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Question #168

What things are too personal
to discuss with others?


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Question #169

How many times during the day
do you look at yourself in the mirror?


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Question #170

Walking along an empty street, you notice a wallet.
It contains $5,000 in cash but no name or address.

What would you do?

Would it alter your decision if inside you found
the name, address, and picture of either a wealthy
looking young man or a frail-looking old woman?

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Question #171

Would you prefer
to be blind or deaf?


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Question #172

Would you be content with a marriage
of the highest quality in all respects but one
-- it completely lacked sex?


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Question #173

When was the last time
you stole something?

Why haven't you stolen
anything since then?


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Question #174

How many of your friendships
have lasted more than ten years?

Which of your current friends
do you feel will still be important
to you ten years from now?


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Question #175

If you could mold to your liking
your memories of any past experience,
would you do so?


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Question #176

Before making a telephone call,
do you ever rehearse
what you are going to say?


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Question #177

How old were you
when you first had sexual intercourse?


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Question #178

You are leading 100 people whose lives
are in danger and you must choose
between two courses of action.

One would save only 90 people;
the other would have a 50 percent chance
of saving everyone but were it to fail
everyone would die.

Which would you choose?


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Question #179

If you went to a movie
with a friend and it was lousy,
would you leave?


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Question #180

For $1,000,000
would you be willing to
never again see or talk
to your best friend?


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Question #181

What do you like best about your life?

What do you like least about your life?


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Question #182

Have you ever disliked someone
for being luckier or more successful
than you?


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Question #183

A cave-in occurs while you and a stranger
are in a concrete room deep in a mine shaft.
Before the phone goes dead, you learn
the entire mine is sealed and the air hole
being drilled will not reach you for 30 hours.
If you both take sleeping pills from the medicine
chest, the oxygen will last for only 20 hours.
Both of you can't survive; alone, one of you might.
After you both realize this, the stranger takes several sleeping pills, says that it is in God's hands, and falls asleep. You have a pistol; what do you do?

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Question #184

When you are given a compliment
do you usually acknowledge it
or suggest that you
really do not deserve it?


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Question #185

What sorts of things would you do
if you could be as outgoing
and uninhibited as you wished?

Do you usually initiate friendships
or wait to be approached?


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Question #186

If you decided to do something
and your friends strongly advised you
not to, could you do it anyway?


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Question #187

In a nice restaurant,
after getting the check for an excellent meal,
you notice that you were not charged
for one of the items you ate.

Would you tell the waitress?


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Question #188

Do you establish routines in your life?

For example, do you usually
sleep in the same place in your bed?
Eat meals at the same time?
Regularly return to the same vacation spot?


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Question #189

Can you be counted on to do
what you say you'll do?

What does it take
for you to trust someone?


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Question #190

Do you feel you have much impact
on the lives of people
you come in contact with?

Can you think of someone who,
over a short period of time,
significantly influenced your life?


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Question #191

Would you rather be happy
yet slow-witted and unimaginative
or unhappy yet bright and creative?

For example, would you rather
live the life of a brilliant yet tortured artist
such as Vincent van Gogh,
or that of a happy but carefree soul
who is a bit simple-minded?


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Question #192

When you are with your friends,
do your interactions include much touching?
For example, hugging, kissing,
roughhousing, or rubbing backs?

Would you like to have more of this?


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Question #193

Given the ability to project yourself
into the future but not return,
would you do so?

If not, would you change your mind
if you could take someone along?

How far would you go?


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Question #194

Would you generally rather be
overdressed or underdressed at a party?


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Question #195

Of all the people close to you,
whose death would you find
most disturbing?


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Question #196

You have arranged an evening with a friend,
but on the day preceding your date
a special opportunity arises
to do something much more exciting.

How would you handle the situation?


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Question #197

What has been your
biggest disappointment in life?

What has been your
biggest failure?


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Question #198

If you could pass your whole life
cared for in every way
as you slumbered peacefully,
entranced by wonderful dreams,
would you do so?


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Question #199

You are given $1,000,000
to donate anonymously
to charity or to a stranger.

How would you dispose of it?


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Question #200

In conversations,
do you tend to listen
or talk more?


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Question #201

Do you frequently find yourself
-- just to be polite --
saying things you don't mean?

For example, when you say "Good-Bye"
to someone who does not interest you,
do you act as though
you enjoyed their company?


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Question #202

Would you be willing to commit perjury
for a close friend?

For example, might you testify
that he was driving carefully
when he hit a pedestrian
even though he had been joking around
and not paying attention?


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Question #203

Relative to the population at large,
how do you rate your
physical attractiveness?

How do you rate your intelligence?

How do you rate your personality?


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Question #204

Running too quickly on an icy sidewalk
in front of a neighbor's house,
you slip and break your leg.

Would you be likely to sue the owner
of the house if you were confident
you could win the suit because of
his negligence in shoveling the snow?


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Question #205

If you could prevent either an earthquake
in Peru that would kill 40,000 people,
a crash at your local airport that would kill
200 people, or an automobile accident
that would kill an acquaintance of yours,
which would you choose?


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Question #206

Would you be willing to eat
a bowl of live crickets for $40,000?


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Question #207

Do you enjoy sleeping
in physical contact with your lover?


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Question #208

If you came upon the scene
of a terrible highway accident
just after the ambulances arrived,
would you stop to satch?

Assume that your presence
would neither help nor hinder
the rescuers.


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Question #209

If you could script the basic plot
for the dream you will have tonight,
what would the story be?


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Question #210

You are given a chance to return to any previous point
in your life and change a decision you made,
but you will lose everything that has happened
to you since then.

Is there a time you would return to?

If so, would you like to retain the memory
of the life you are giving up even though
you could never recapture it?

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Question #211

Would $50,000 be enough money
to induce you to take a loyal,
healthy pet to the vet
to be put to sleep?


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Question #212

Ignoring all financial considerations,
would you rather spend the next five years
confined to the city of New York
or to the environs of Morro Bay,
a beautiful, isolated town
on the California coast?


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Question #213

What would you like to be doing
five years from now?

What do you think you will be doing
five years from now?


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Question #214

What important decision
in your professional life
have you based largely
upon your intuitive feelings?

What about in our personal life?


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Question #215

Would you like to be elected
president of this country?

Why?

If so, would you still choose to be president
if it meant that your sleep would
always be very fitful and disturbed,
punctuated by frequent nightmares?


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Question #216

If a crystal ball would tell you the truth
about any one thing you wished to know
concerning yourself, life, the future,
or anything else, what would
you want to know?


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Question #217

If you were guaranteed honest responses
to any three questions,
who would you question
and what would you ask?


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Further Questions

How nice it would be to provide answers at this point; but personal questions such as these have no universal answers. Since each answer is a reflection of individual personality and experience, to evaluate our own responses we must look into ourselves. As with the initial questions, the object of the questions in this section is not to settle things with an "answer," but to go wherever the questions lead us. Though designed to be used in conjunction with the corresponiding questions in the front of the book, this section can also be read and used independently. These follow-up questions suggest additional areas for reflection, and illustrate the process of probing and extending the original questions. Good questions don't lead to answers, they lead to more quesions.

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Question #218   (4)

Which is more important:
actual experiences, or the memories
that remain when the experiences are over?


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Question #219   (9)

If you were expelled from the country
and had only limited financial resources,
where would you try to rebuild your life?


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Question #220   (11)

If you can imagine yourself killing someone
indirectly, could you still see doing so
if you had to look into the person's eyes
and stab the person to death?

Have you ever genuinely wanted to
kill someone, or wished someone dead?


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Question #221   (14)

Since so many place great emphasis on a happy
private life, why do people often wind up putting
more energy into their professional lives?
If you feel your private life is more important to you,
do your priorities support this?
Are you simply unwilling to admit that work
is more important?

Do you use work as a substitute?
Do you hope professional success will somehow
magically lead to personal happiness?

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Question #222   (17)

How much are you affected
by a person's physical appearance?

How would it change your life if something happened
to make you much less attractive than you are now?

Do you find anything disturbing about immortality?

What age seems ideal to you?

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Question #223   (19)

In love, is intensity or permanence
more important to you?

How much do you expect
from someone who loves you?

What would make you feel
betrayed by your mate?
Indifference? Dishonesty? Infidelity?


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Question #224   (23)

How serious wouild an affair need to be before
you would want and expect to be told about it?
What makes hearing such a confession
so threatening that most people
would rather be deceived?
Is this kind of honesty more likely
to be destructive or to lead to
greater intimacy and trust?
How much do you trust your lover?
How much can you be trusted?


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Question #225   (25)

Why does a beautiful creature merit
more compassion than an ugly one?
Does it damage us psychologically when
we destroy something we find beautiful?
How meaningful is the difference
between pulling the wings off
an insect and stepping on it?
Is the decision of how to kill something
a minor decision when balanced against
the decision of whether or not to kill it at all?


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Question #226   (26)

Would it torment you more to have the blood
of an innocent person on your hands
or to know you let millions of people die?

What do you think of people who achieve
great things by compromising their principles?

Many are willing to give their own lives
but not to take the life of another;
is anything so important you would
sacrifice your very soul for it?

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Question #227   (35)

Do you feel you have enough time?

If not, what would give you that feeling?

How much has your attitude
about time changed as you've aged?


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Question #228   (39)

What kind of people
do you like to spend time with?

What do such people bring out
in you that others do not?

What can people learn about you
by looking at your friends?


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Question #229   (42)

Have you ever been sexually attracted
to someone of the same sex?

Have you ever been sexually attracted to
someone in your family?

If so, how did you deal with it?


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Question #230   (45)

Should it be illegal to help
a terminally-ill person to die?

If someone is not dying but has chronic pain,
should the person be allowed
to commit suicide?

What if the person is in
emotional rather than physical pain?


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Question #231   (48)

What do you seek in a friend
yet neither expect nor want in a lover?

Are you attracted to people
who are healthy for you to be around?


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Question #232   (50)

Would you prefer to die a hero's death,
die a martyr to some great cause,
die in a natural catastrophe,
or die peacefully?

Why is it so tempting
to have death catch us in our sleep?


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Question #233   (51)

How do your feelings about death
influence the way you lead your life?


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Question #234   (58)

How forgiving are you
when your friends let you down?


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Question #235   (63)

In the mid 1800's, had you been able to look into
the future and see that the automobile would cause
5 million fatalities in the next century,
how would you have felt about this new device?

Is there scientific knowledge
that is best left undiscovered?

If so, what areas of research
do you feel shoud be restricted?

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Question #236   (66)

Do your comments and suggestions
influence other people much?

How could you present your ideas
so that they would have more impact?


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Question #237   (67)

Would you risk your life for someone
close to you out of feelings of obligation
or out of feelings of love?

Would it matter if you could refuse
without anyone ever knowing?

What if the person asked you
not to risk your life?


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Question #238   (68)

Does living as though you control
your own destiny
lead to a more powerful life?


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Question #239   (71)

What would you do if you realized
that unless you changed jobs
and took a 25 percent pay cut,
you would have moderate insomnia
and a nightmare every month or so?

Is there anything worse
than the worst nightmare?


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Question #240   (79)


How do you react to the idea that more people
are willing to have sex for money (Question 156)
than to forgo washing?

A century ago this would not have been the case;
do you think our more permissive
sexual attitude is a healthy development?

What about our increased attention to personal hygiene?

How important is advertising
in bringing about these changes?

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Question #241   (86)

How would you like to be
remembered after you die?

What would you like said
at your funeral?

Whom would you like to speak?


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Question #242   (90)


Would you like to have a child much brighter
and more attractive than yourself?
What difficulties might result?

How much would it bother you to have
an ugly, stupid, or crippled child?

To ensure your baby would be born bright, attractive,
and healthy, would you use a safe medical procedure
to genetically alter the developing embryo?

Would a baby designed in this way still feel like your child?

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Question #243   (92)

Is it better to have dreams
that will never come to pass,
or to have no dreams at all?

How much better would your life be
if the things you dream of doing or having
were granted to you?


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Question #244   (101)

In terms of their relative unpleasantness, how would
you rank the following: a nude stroll in public;
being spat upon by a crowd of people; being arrested
for shoplifing; begging for money at an airport?

What is the most embarrassing thing you can imagine?

What bothers you about looking bad
in front of strangers?

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Question #245   (102)

Do you feel that children
should be sheltered from unhappiness?

What from your childhood
has proved most valuable?

What from your childhood
has proved most difficult to overcome?


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Question #246   (107)

How hard would it be to outlive
and lose each person you grew close to?
If you lived a greatly lengthened life, would you experience
so much that you'd soon feel surrounded by children?

Would you be able to adjust to the dramatic social changes?
Would you soon grow jaded,
feeling there was nothing interesting left?

Does feeling that life is too short increase the intensity
and passion of it in a desirable way?

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Question #247   (110)

If you saw someone cheating on a test,
what would you do?

What if you had signed an honor code?


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Question #248   (115)

How might the world be different
if you could actually change
some historical event?

How sure are you that the long-term
consequences would be positive?


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Question #249   (118)

Do you think your friends would agree with
one another about the kind of person you are?

How much energy do you spend doing things
to favorably impress other people?

If you were completely unconcerned about what others
would think, what sorts of things might you do?

How do you feel when people like you because
they think you are someone you are not?

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Question #250   (125)

When you make a big sacrifice, do you tell
people about it or keep it to yourself?

Do you feel annoyed when your sacrifices
aren't acknowledged by others?

What would you never willingly sacrifice?
Your life? Your Health?
Your Integrity? Your Dreams?


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Question #251   (127)

In what ways will you treat
(or have you treated)
your children differently
from the way you were treated?

If you've already raised children
and could do it again
knowing what you know now,
what would you do differently?


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Question #252   (132)

How much do you like your body?

If you awoke alone on a warm morning
and were going to laze around your home,
how long would you wait to get dressed?

What do you wear when you sleep?


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Question #253   (136)


What are your feelings about killing
a handicapped child at birth?

Should a woman have the right to have
an abortion for any reason she wants?
What rights should the father have?

If your 15-year-old sister became pregnant,
would you want her to have an abortion?

If you had a retarded baby,
would you put the child in an institution?

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Question #254   (140)

How might knowing when you'll die help you plan your life?

Is life enhanced by feeling that death could strike at any time?

Is life enhanced by not thinking about death at all?

If you knew someone was dying, would you
tell them the truth or deceive them about it?

How many more years do you think you will live?

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Question #255   (141)

Would you accept a much less enjoyable job
paying twice what you make now?

If you received the same pay regardless
of your job, what kind of work would you do?

If you were financially independent,
would you continue to work?

If not, what would you do?


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Question #256   (150)

If giving up TV is too much of a sacrifice,
would you consider switching
to black-and-white viewing?


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Question #257   (153)

Can you envision how you are likely
to look back upon the things
you are doing today?

If so, how much do you try
to live now as you think
you will one day wish you had lived?


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Question #258   (155)

Are honors more likely to come to those
who seek them or to those who don't care about fame
and think only of their work?

How much do fame and accomplishment impress you?

Does just knowing you've accomplished something
worthwhile mean as much to you as getting attention
and praise for the accomplishment?

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Question #259   (156)

Since so many people are willing to have
sex for money, why is such a strong stigma
attached to prostitution?

Is there much difference between
having sex for cash and having sex
in the hope of getting some future benefit?

Does the size of the payment
alter the nature of the transaction?


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Question #260   (164)

How do you feel about taking a sick day
at work when you aren't ill?

Have you ever made unauthorized, personal, long-distance
phone calls or taken tools or supplies from work?

Have you ever falsified a time card or an expense report?

If through a computer error you were given too large
a paycheck, would you report it?

Do you see such moral choices as black-and-white issues?

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Question #261   (170)


Most people say if they found a wallet
full of cash on the street they would return
the money; do you believe them?

Most also think their own lost wallets
would not be returned; do you feel similarly?

How do you explain this contradiction?

Would you help fund an experiment designed
to find out whether people are actually
honest enough to return cash-filled wallets?

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Question #262   (172)

Are you able to separate sex from love?

Could you be content satisfying your sexual
needs from people other than your mate?

When you think of sex, do you think of a
broad range of touching, holding, and
caressing, or mainly of sexual intercourse?


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Question #263   (177)

Is there anything anyone could have told you that
would have made your first sexual experience better?

Do you think you would be better off
if you had waited longer to have sex?

Do you think you would be better off
if you had stared earlier?

Was sex what you imagined it to be?

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Question #264   (178)

What if you had to choose
the 10 people who would die?

Would you rather have someone else
in the group make the decision
even though you might be picked to die?


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Question #265   (180)

If you were offered a much better job
in another city and knew you would,
over the years, drift away from
your closest friend if you took it,
would you go?


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Question #266   (193)

What would induce you to give up life
as you know it and face the unknown?

Were people in previous centuries more
adventurous than we are today or was it
simply harder to avoid risk and adventure?

How much does affluence make people
complacent and averse to risk?


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Question #267   (200)

What are you looking for
when you converse with people?

What kinds of things
do you usually discuss?

Are there other things
that would be more interesting to you?


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