Today, more than at any time past, it matters to you to know yourself and those around you. Here is a test of your personality, and each category is a picture of a group of people of whom you are one. A single category may not match your temperament exactly, but if you are sure of yourself, answer the questions and they will help you.
Mark the statements with the word false or true, then count them up: if the number reaches five or more, you belong to that category. But if, for example, you score five questions from category A and five from B, you fall under category AB; and if you do not have five from any group, you belong to category D.
Category A
1: Manual work gives me pleasure.
2: Fine workmanship delights me, and I like to find out how it is done.
3: I like to work in the garden.
4: I long for games that tire my body without straining my mind.
5: When certain matters grow complicated, I busy
myself with something else so as to forget them.
6: I do some of the small repairs about the house myself.
7: I prefer walking for physical exercise.
8: I am practical, and routine does not weary me.
Category B
1: The company of people pleases me more than anything in life.
2: I feel sympathy and tenderness toward people of all classes and ages.
3: I set aside my own affairs to help others.
4: I love informal social life, where I can mix with people.
5: I prefer to go out and do things that profit me nothing rather than stay alone.
6: My friends bring me their problems, and I listen to them with complete attention.
7: I give often, and with all my heart, to those in need of giving.
8: I am tender of feeling and loving, and I always show my sympathy and my emotion.
Category C
1: Solitude is sweet to me, for then I can read and think.
2: I plunge with perfect ease into the work at hand, and give myself to it heedless of everything around me.
3: There is in me a hunger for knowledge, and I let no hour go to waste in which I might gain some information.
4: The editor's word is the first thing I read in the newspaper.
5: By nature I am drawn to persons who have had more experience than I.
6: My mind longs for creation and invention.
7: I like to inquire, and to examine intellectual questions.
8: My surroundings are a secondary thing to me, so long as I am able to impose my personality on those around me.
Category A: Your pride in work gives you satisfaction, and an excuse for your clinging to the earth.
You need adventure in friendship, and mental exercise. You learn quickly, and it is easier for you to gather money than to gather friends, before whom you stand embarrassed; do not let this hesitancy drown you, and strive to be rid of it. I advise you to work with all the powers nature has endowed you with — but lift your