A Psychological Test: Are You Emotional, Madam?

A Psychological Test

Poets and musicians have sung the praises of emotion! And if emotion has produced tragedies, it also affords, on the other hand, the chance to savor feeling to the utmost degree...

Here is a lady who says: "Without emotion, I can do nothing!" And those two immortal musicians, Chopin and Liszt, were emotional men; in their music are the burning outpourings that rise from the storms of hearts.

The emotional lady is the lady who lives a life full of vitality and warmth. Are you emotional, Madam—and to what degree?

Answer the following eighteen questions honestly and faithfully, to learn the degree of your emotion.

The Questions

1 — Do you consider love the sole aim of your life?

2 — Do you like your sweetheart to speak to you forcefully of his love?

3 — Are you jealous?

4 — Does your jealousy show itself with violence and intensity?

5 — Would you leave the man you love if he committed a betrayal?

6 — Are you fanatical in love?

7 — Are you fanatical in friendship?

8 — Are you a woman of vehemence and quick temper?

9 — Do you defend your opinions violently in the course of an argument?

10 — Do you exert your utmost efforts to overcome obstacles?

11 — Do you love films, plays, and novels in which the leading parts are played by passionate lovers?

12 — If your marriage to Romeo could not come to pass, would you take your own life as Juliet did?

13 — Do you love music that stirs inner tremors in your soul?

14 — Do you love strong perfumes that agitate you and make you lose your head?

15 — Do you love danger?

16 — When you are in a motorcar, do you love speed?

17 — Do you love the storm?

18 — Do you love the rough, raging sea?

Zero "yes"

Ah, Madam, you are nothing but a statue of ice!..

1 to 4 "yes"

A small, feeble flame burns within you. Ah—very small and very feeble; let us say the flame of a candle that a puff of breeze could put out. But who knows? However small and feeble a flame may be, it can kindle another flame, stronger and fiercer.

5 to 7 "yes"

The middle way is best. You are neither very emotional nor cold. You are one of those women who love to gaze into the abyss while leaning on a railing of solid supports. And you are, without doubt, wise...

8 to 11 "yes"

Oho! Madam, you are walking the road that Manon Lescaut walked before you. But fortunately you will not reach its end. Is it not better to live by love than to die of it?

12 to 14 "yes"

You, Madam, are moderately emotional; you have grasped that excess in all things is a sin. You have laid aside a few seeds of wisdom, and who could blame you for that? Your personality is singular, and life seems to you worth living—is it not so?

15 to 18 "yes"

What a storm—nay, what a whirlwind you are! You are one hundred percent emotional. You do not like half measures. You are an erupting volcano, and those around you can never know the meaning of rest. You burn up life!..