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Are you (generally reckoning the matter) selfish or unselfish, as a rule? Cynical or kindly-natured?

Do you forgive easily, or are you brooding and rather revengeful if injured? Do quarrels and injuries "pass away" from your mind easily, or brood?

Are you quick-tempered?—easily given to outbreaks and violence?

Have you an inclination to a settled, dogmatic religious faith?—to a "supernatural religion," of one kind or another? Are you firmly convinced, or do you wish to be so, of the soul's immortality? Of a future state, of a relation between this life and some other one? Do you fear Death?

Have you a strong will-power, real resolution in important matters, due decision in things unimportant? Do you "dream more than act," so far as concerns success in life? Have you much physical courage?

Do you find that you easily control other people, or that they easily guide and control you?

Are you, on the whole, egotistical, vain, rather self-satisfied? Or not so?

Are you naturally frank, open, and given to showing and being what you think and are—apart from sexual traits?

Are you easily depressed or melancholy? If so, do such moods spring from a special cause? Or do they come quite apart therefrom—with little direct explanation? Are you decidedly "moody?"

Have you ever been conscious of a passing or lasting relish for obscene humour, petty indecencies? Are you spontaneously profane?

What is your impression of your nature as to jealousy from sentimental causes? Also as to envy, suspicion, or confidence?

Is your general demeanor restless or quiet? Are you inclined to be alone, and to reflect much on things?

Are you a talkative person, or one who is a better listener than talker?

Do you incline to any little eccentricities of manner, and to affectations?—to mysticisms in trifles?

Do you feel inclined toward a life in one place, to a fixed

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