► Test of Proust.

Pedro_P

The Test of Proust is a set of questions created by the novelist Marcel Proust, he proposed that through this questionnaire, it was possible to know someone in depth through simple questions.


Would you like to answer this questionnaire?


1. What is your favorite hobby?   

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   

3. What is your great fear?   

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?  
5. What do you consider your worst defect?   

6. What or who is the great love of your life?   

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?   

8. What is your biggest extravagance?   

9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?   

11. What has been your greatest achievement?   

12. On what occasions do you lie?   

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?   

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?   
15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?   

16. What is your favorite occupation?   

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?   

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?   

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?   

20. How would you like to die?   

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?   

22. What is your motto?   

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?   

24. What special talent would you like to have?   

25. What person do you admire?   

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?   

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?   

28. What are your favorite writers?   

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?   

30. What living person seems despicable to you?   


Thanks to everyone for participating.

banker21

Well, an interesting questionnaire, no doubt. Sorry, won't be able to answer all the questions, but will try my best. Here I go in my attempt

1. Playing cricket and reading
2. Success and happiness for my loved ones
3.
4. Fairness towards everyone
5. Inability to sing
6. Well, a person
7.
8. Well, touring US, Europe and Near East with my family
9. Lying and be selfish
10. Can't think of such a word or phrase
11. Many, professional and personal
12. Don't lie
13.
14. Education
15. Nothing as such
16. Banking
17. To separate grain from chaff
18. To separate grain from chaff
19.
20.
21.
22. Do your duty, be happy
23. Nothing
24. Ability to sing
25. Mahatma Gandhi, Prof. APJ Abdul Kalam
26. Selflessness and truthfulness
27. Dragon Riders
28. Oh, so many
29. They would do anything for me.
30. Many politicians, wouldn't do to name them here!

Rhett_Bassard

OMG, these are NOT simple questions for me. Proust would then call me complicated.

Pedro_P

Rhett Bassard 5-12-2017 03:25 AM
OMG, these are NOT simple questions for me. Proust would then call me complicated.

No problem... Only answer the questions you want to answer...

Ralph

Had to take awhile to think about some of these

rahuldev

OMG! Too many.

penprak

Here is my response.

1. What is your favorite hobby?
Reading books  
2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   
Completing a good book and kicking the bucket in sleep.
3. What is your great fear?
Prolonged illness before death.
4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?
Learned to live within means.
  
5. What do you consider your worst defect?
Straight forwardness.  
6. What or who is the great love of your life?  
Spending time reading good books.
7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?   
Unaffordable illness.
8. What is your biggest extravagance?   
Buying a premiun music system.
9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   
Unreasonable selfishness.
10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?
Matured beyond swearing.  
11. What has been your greatest achievement?
Starting with handicaps in life and overcoming them through hard work.  
12. On what occasions do you lie?
When it does not hurt others.  
13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?
In the company of grand children.  
14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?
Education
  
15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?  
My time.  
16. What is your favorite occupation?  
Reading books.
17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?  
Integity.  
18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?
Integrity.  
19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?
None.  
20. How would you like to die?   
In sleep.
21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?   
Me again.
22. What is your motto?   
Do possible good to others.
23. What do you dislike about your appearance?  
None (I am what I am)
24. What special talent would you like to have?
Ability to converse in many languages.
25. What person do you admire?
Mahatma Gandhi  
26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?
Simple living and high thinking.  
27. What is your favorite fiction hero?
Captain Nemo of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Jules Verne)  
28. What are your favorite writers?  
Jules Verne, Alexander Dumas, Ayn Rand, Colin Forbes, Jack Higgins and many more.
29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?
Bear my company.   
30. What living person seems despicable to you?
One who is selfish and manipulative.  

NoOne

1. What is your favorite hobby?   
Reading

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?   When I do not need to think about earning money anymore

3. What is your great fear?   
Joblessness

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?  
My Communication

5. What do you consider your worst defect?   
Nothing

6. What or who is the great love of your life?
My Parents  

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?  
If I need to depend on someone else

8. What is your biggest extravagance?   
My house

9. What is the worst defect that others can have?   Not worried about other's defects

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?   

So...

11. What has been your greatest achievement?   

Couple of things, wouldn't like to disclose

12. On what occasions do you lie?  

When there's no other alternative

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?  
When my first baby was born

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?   
Knowledge

15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?   
My coins collection

16. What is your favorite occupation?   
Lecturing

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?   
Honesty

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?   
Loyalty

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?   

20. How would you like to die?   
without pain

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?   
No One, I want to be myself

22. What is your motto?   
Live and let live

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?   
Nothing

24. What special talent would you like to have?   
Photographic Memory

25. What person do you admire?   

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?   
humbleness

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?   
Buzz lightyear

28. What are your favorite writers?   
Dan Brown, Mukul Deva

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?   
faithfull

30. What living person seems despicable to you?  
Many...

PK47

1. What is your favorite hobby?
Gaming

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?
Being happy everyday

3. What is your great fear?
Losing loved ones

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?
Simple

5. What do you consider your worst defect?
Lazy ness

6. What or who is the great love of your life?
My Family

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?

8. What is your biggest extravagance?

9. What is the worst defect that others can have?
No Heart

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?
Ok

11. What has been your greatest achievement?
Leading Life successfully (kind of )

12. On what occasions do you lie?
When i fear of consequences

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?  
When i was a kid

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?

15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?
Nothing

16. What is your favorite occupation?
Architect

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?
Trust

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?
Loyal

19.Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?
My Friends

20. How would you like to die?
In sleep

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?
GOD

22. What is your motto?
Be +ve

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?
Lazy

24. What special talent would you like to have?
Photographic Memory

25. What person do you admire?
Nikola Tesla

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?
Humour

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?
Spider-Man

28. What are your favorite writers?

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?
Faithfull

30. What living person seems despicable to you?

Pedro_P

Well, let's start...

1. What is your favorite hobby?
• Read, listen to music, write in my agenda, listen to the shortwave radio (dxing), wind my watches, go to the beach, sometimes practice trekking, the horse racing, build and repair old things.

2. What would perfect happiness be for you?
• That nobody I know, is suffering or having any need. If they are happy, then I will be too.

3. What is your great fear?
• Losing my memory, not recognizing anyone.

4. What do you think is the feature that most defines you?
•My rationality and critical thinking, but also my good humor, I do not usually bother easily.

5. What do you consider your worst defect?
• My inability to believe, be very skeptical and critical, especially with religions in general and also with some political ideologies.

6. What or who is the great love of your life?
• My wifi... Ops ... My wife.

7. What could plunge you into the deepest misery?
• If I had the ability to help someone and I did not help him or her, that situation would be fatal for me. That would go against my principles. Indifference and indolence can plunge me into the deepest misery.

8. What is your biggest extravagance?
Being at the end of 2017... I do not use social networks, I do not use WhatsApp and I still use two old Nokia phones with symbian (N8 and E7).

9. What is the worst defect that others can have?
Indifference and indolence, lack of empathy, lack of solidarity.

10. What are the words or phrases that you use most often?
• Please... / Thanks...
• Yes, but... / No, but...
• Anyway... Patience and good humor.
• I have an idea... Hmm...
• It is time to change...

11. What has been your greatest achievement?
• Be independent and self-sufficient.

12. On what occasions do you lie?
• Only when it is worth doing.

13. When and where have you been absolutely happy?
• When I was a child and when love found me.

14. What do you think has been your biggest investment?
• Have my own apartment.

15. What personal object is the most valuable to you?
• The fountain pen of my father.

16. What is your favorite occupation?
• Help whoever wants an idea or advice.

17. What is the quality you most admire in a man?
• That he is educated and intelligent, independent, self-sufficient, responsible, solidarity, with a high capacity for understanding and learning, without prejudices and intolerances. And owner of himself and his destiny.

18. What is the quality you most admire in a woman?
• That she is educated and intelligent, independent, self-sufficient, responsible, solidarity, with a high capacity for understanding and learning, without prejudices and intolerances. And owner of herself and her destiny.

19. Which character in the story is who else do you identify with?
• Miguel Grau , a Peruvian hero who participated in the infamous War of the Pacific.

20. How would you like to die?
• Let death find me doing what I like most.

21. If you died and you were allowed to become another person or thing, what do you think you would be?
• If I were allowed to return as a person, I would like to be a research journalist. And if being allowed to return me turned into an object, it would be a fountain pen, a mechanic clock or a radio.

22. What is your motto?
• «Even a broken clock indicates the correct time twice a day»

23. What do you dislike about your appearance?
• Nothing special.

24. What special talent would you like to have?
• I would like to have the ability and knowledge to play a musical instrument.

25. What person do you admirre?
• I admire my father and my mother.

26. What is the quality that you most admire in a person?
• Being human in the broadest, authentic and positive of the Human word.

27. What is your favorite fiction hero?
• Captain Future

28. What are your favorite writers?
• César Vallejo, Leopoldo María Panero (the best) , Manuel Scorza, Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, etc.

29. What is the most valuable thing about your friends?
• Their frankness and sincerity.

30. What living person seems despicable to you?
• All dictators satraps and all those who destroy the childhood of the children of the world.