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Emotions: 



Which kind strongest ? 



Quick or sluggish ? 



Did they over-influence vour reason ? 



Sentiments: 



Esthetic, r Nimiber. 



Moral. Strength. 



Religious. ] Duration. 



Logical. I Practical influence. 



WiU: 



Greatest strength and weakness. 

 Far-visioned or immediate ? 

 Obstinate or concihatory ? 



Special abilities: 



Music, oratory, drawing, painting, etc. 



(d) Temperament and character. Make as truthful a portrait of your tem- 

 perament and character as you can. Point out what you deem defects and dis- 

 cuss possible ways of remedying them. Indicate, in contrast with your actual 

 self, your ideal. Who have been your heroes during adolescence ? Why ? 

 Who is now your ideal ? 



In the following list underscore once the terms that fairly well describe you 

 as an adolescent; underscore twice those that describe you very accurately. 



Respectful, disrespectful; responsive, unresponsive; capricious, steady; 

 prompt, procrastinating; resourceful, helpless; gentle, violent; objective- 

 minded, subjective-minded; graceful, awkward; purposeful, desultory; thor- 

 ough, superficial; orderly, disorderly; optimistic, pessimistic; contented, queru- 

 lous; originative, imitative; vacillating, decided; careful, careless; deliberate, 

 rash; industrious, indolent; practical, dreamy; persistent, fickle; visionary, 

 matter-of-fact; sanguine, melanchoHc; critical, suggestible; romantic, im- 

 romantic; systematic, unmethodical; erotic, cold; excitable, stolid; emotional, 

 lethargic; intellectual, stupid; prosaic, humorous; nervous, phlegmatic; sym- 

 pathetic, caUous; polite, rude; truthful, prevaricating; loyal, untrustworthy; 

 artistic, unartistic; religious, unreligious; inventive, unoriginal; self-confident, 

 self-distrustful; proud, servile; pleasure-loving, ascetic; egotistic, altruistic; 

 diffident, bold; serious, trifling; avaricious, prodigal; secretive, frank, reticent; 



