Personality test – How brave are you?


Answer this test as honestly as possible. Underline (a), (b) or (c) and when you have finished,
check your score at the bottom of the page. After you have added up your points you can read the
analysis.


 1.

If you saw someone drowning and you couldn’t swim, would you

(a)    jump in

(b)    look for a long branch or rope

(c)    wait for someone else to do something?
 2.

If your friends were trying heroin and offered it to you, would you

(a)    tell them you’d try it tomorrow

(b)   try it

(c)    refuse?
 3.

If you heard that a lion had escaped from the local zoo, would you

(a)    cancel your picnic

(b)   go out and look for it

(c)    lock all your doors and windows?
 4.

If you had seen the class bully break a window at school but the teacher was blaming another boy,
would you

(a)    keep quiet

(b)   tell the teacher that the boy had been with you

(c)    tell the teacher that you’d seen the bully do it?
 5.

If you heard someone screaming for help outside your house, would you

(a)    turn up the TV

(b)   open the door to see what was happening

(c)    pick up a knife and rush outside
 6.

If you had a chance to go on a round-the-world trip for a year, would you

(a)    go

(b)   say you would go if your best friend could go too

(c)    not go?
 7.

If your house was on fire, would you

(a)    fill buckets of water and throw them on the fire

(b)   run around collecting all your favourite things

(c)    run out of the house?
 8.

If you were walking home alone at night and you thought a suspicious-looking man was following you,
would you

(a)    run

(b)   ask him what he wanted

(c)    continue walking?
 9.

If your friends dared you to jump of a very high diving board at the local swimming pool, would you

(a)    refuse

(b)   say that you’d do it if they did it first

(c)    do it?
10.

If you were at a bank when armed robbers appeared, would you

(a)    throw yourself on the floor

(b)   run for the door

(c)    hit them with your umbrella?



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Analysis


39-46 points: You may think you are brave but you are really reckless! In fact, it’s surprising
you’re still alive if this is how you would act!


28-38 points: You are brave but fairly sensible. However, you’d better be careful you don’t get
into trouble by doing dangerous things.


20-27 points: You are sensible and cautious but perhaps a little bit unadventurous.


13-19 points: You’re not brave at all! You should be careful that you don’t put yourself and others
at risk by acting in a cowardly way.




                                                                   Adapted from: Catch, No.5,
March/April 1989, p.11


Possible test tasks:


Fill in a preposition:


Don’t put yourself and others ……. risk.