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?

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?

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?

4. If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterward would remember nothing of the experience would you do so? If not, why not? *Which is more important: actual experiences, or the memories that remain when the experiences are over?

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?

6. You discover your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mix-up at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child to try to correct the mistake?

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

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?

9. Would you accept $1,000,000 to leave the country and never set foot in it again? *If you were expelled from the country and had only limited financial resources, where would you try to rebuild your life?

10. Which sex do you think has it easier in our culture? Have you ever wished you were of the opposite sex?

11. You are given the power to kill people simply by thinking of their deaths and twice repeating the word "goodbye." People would die a natural death and no one would suspect you. Are there any situations in which you would use this power?
*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?

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?

13. What would constitute a "perfect" evening for you?

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? *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?

15. Whom do you admire most? In what way does that person inspire you?

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

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? * 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?

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

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?
*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?

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?

21. Do you prefer being around men or women? Do your closest friends tend to be men or women?

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

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?
*How serious would 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 trust? How much do you trust your lover? How much can you be trusted?

24. Are there people you envy enough to want to trade lives with them? Who are they?

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 cockroach?
*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 meaning ful 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?

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

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?

28. What is your most treasured memory?

29. Have you ever hated anyone? If so, why and for how long?

30. Would you rather be given $10,000 for your own use or $100,000 to give to strangers? What if you could keep $1,000,000 or give away $20,000,000?

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

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

33. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life? Is there anything you hope to do that is even better?

34. What was your most enjoyable dream? your worst nightmare?

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?
*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?

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?

37. What was your best experience with drugs or alcohol? your worst experience?

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?

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

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?

41. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire; after saving your loved ones and pets, you time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be?

42. How would you react if you were o learn that your mate had had a lover of the same sex before you knew each other?
*Have you ever been sexually attracted to someone of the same sex? to someone in your family? If so, how did you deal with it?

43. When were you last in a fight? What caused it and who won?

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 walk away you do so a millionaire. Would you accept the risk?

45. Someone very close to you is in pain, paralyzed, and will within a month. He begs you to give him poison so that he can die. Would you? What if it were your father? *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?

46. When did you last sing to yourself? to someone else?

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?

48. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as your dinner guest? as your close friend? as your lover? *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?

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?

50. If you could choose the manner of your death, what would it be? *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? How do your feelings about death influence the way you lead your life?

51. Do you have any specific long-term goals? What is one and how do you plan on reaching it? *How often do you step back and reflect upon the way you are living and where you are headed? In what way will reaching your goals make your life more satisfying?

52. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?

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

54. What is the worst psychological torture you can imagine suffering? Anything causing even minor physical injury should not be considered.

55. Would you life your spouse to be both smarter and more attractive than you?

56. If you found that a good friend had AIDS, would you avoid him? What if your brother or sister had it?

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?

58. A good friend pulls off a well-conceived practical joke that plays on one of your foibles and makes you look ridiculous. How would you react?
*How forgiving are you when your friends let you down?

59. By controlling medical research funds, you are in a 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?

60. Would you add one year to your life 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?

61. Can you urinate in front of another person?

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?

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? *In the mid 1800s, 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 should be restricted?

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?

65. When you tell a story, do often exaggerate or embellish it? If so, why?

66. Do you feel that advice from older people carries a special weight because of their greater experience?
*Do your comments and suggestions influence other people much? How could you present your ideas so that they would have more impact?

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 live expectancy. Would you consent to the operation?
*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?

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

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?

70. When did you last yell at someone? Why? Did you later regret it?

71. Would you be willing to have horrible nightmares every night for a year if you would be rewarded with extraordinary wealth?
*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? If there anything worse than the worst nightmare?

72. If you could have free, unlimited service for 5 years from an extremely good cook, chauffeur, housekeeper, masseuse, or personal secretary, which would you choose?

73. Would you be willing to go to a slaughterhouse and kill a cow? Do you eat meat?

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.

75. After a medical examination, your doctor calls and gravely says you have a rare lymphatic cancer and only have 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?

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?

77. Do you feel ill at ease going alone to either dinner or a movie? What about going on a vacation by yourself?

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

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.

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.

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

82. Is it easy for you to accept help when you need it? Will you ask for help?

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.

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

85. Would you like to be famous? In what way?

86. How do you picture your funeral? Is it important for you to have people mourn your death?
*How would you like to be remembered after you die? What would you like said at your funeral? Whom would you like to speak?

87. Which of the following restrictions could you best tolerate: leaving the country permanently, or never leaving the state in which you now live? 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 immediate shot of anti venom, yet there is only a single dose of anti venom and it is in your pocket. What would you do?

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?

90. If you could choose the sex and physical appearance of your soon-to-be-born child, would you do it?
*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 pursue a safe medical procedure to genetically alter the developing embryo? Would a baby designed in this way still feel like your child?

91. Would you rather play a game with someone more or less talented than you? Would it matter who was watching?

92. Is there something you've dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven't you done it?
*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?

93. While in the government, you discover the President is committing 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?

94. On a busy street you are approached apologetically 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 the be hungry and unable to find a job, what would you do?

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?

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?

97. What are your most compulsive habits? Do you regularly struggle to break these habits?

98. You know you will die of an incurable disease with three months. Would you allow yourself to be frozen within the week if you knew if would give you a modest chance of being revived in 1,000 years and living a greatly extended life?

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 contact the owner?

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

101. An eccentric millionaire offers to donate a large sum to charity if you will step - completely naked - from your 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?
*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 shoplifting; 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?