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Proust Questionnaire Responses

Updated: Mar 6, 2019

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Reading a book / Traveling

2. What is your greatest fear?

Fear of losing someone

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Indecision/ Procrastination

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Hypocrisy

5. Which living person do you most admire?

Barack Obama.

6. What is your greatest extravagance?

Time

7. What is your current state of mind?

Optimistic

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Friendship

9. On what occasion do you lie?

Avoid/ To achieve a purpose

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?

Eyes

11. Which living person do you most despise?

who belittle others

12. What is the quality you most like in a man?

Courage/Intelligence

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Responsibility

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

“How”

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?

Family/ Friend

16. When and where were you happiest?

Childhood/ Sleeping/ Reading

17. Which talent would you most like to have?

Efficient Writing Skills

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

My mind

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Not Yet happen

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

Human

21. Where would you most like to live?

Prosperity cities

22. What is your most treasured possession?

Experience/ Memory

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Living in fear/ hate

24. What is your favorite occupation?

Business

25. What is your most marked characteristic?

Ability to listen

26. What do you most value in your friends?

Trust

27. Who are your favorite writers?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

28. Who is your hero of fiction?

Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Nikola Tesla

30. Who are your heroes in real life?

Jack Ma

31. What are your favorite names?

Samson

32. What is it that you most dislike?

Fakeness

33. What is your greatest regret?

allow my mood to affect others

34. How would you like to die?

Die while sleeping with no pain.

35. What is your motto?

Hard days also have its value.



1. The questions I struggled with the most were…

I was struggled to answer the question--- "What do you consider your greatest achievement?". Although I have no imagination on how my future going to be, I believe all the achievement right now is only a tip of the iceberg.


2. The answers I will probably change in 5 years are…(because)...

The answer that I will probably change in 5 years is "What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?", "What do you most dislike about your appearance?", and "What is it that you most dislike."


3. The answers that surprised me the most were….

The question, "What is your greatest extravagance," surprised me the most, since I do not usually notice what I waste.


4. The questions I had an instinctual reaction to and could easily answer were...

The question, "What is your motto" made me felt to have an instinctual reaction to answer since this reveals my real opinion.


5. Then...Expand on one...for example, if your answer to number 29 was “Marie Antoinette”, explain why in a short paragraph.

I would like to elaborate upon the question #27, "Who are your favorite writers?". I believe Harriet Beecher Stowe, as my favorite writes, who writes opinionated works and against half of the society’s slavery system, opened the eyes of Americans and Europeans to the horrors of slavery. Especially, the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, not only made me and the audience who read it in the south aware of their cruelty and more empathetic in forcing the blacks into slavery, but also depicted the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. Therefore, I viewed Harriet Beecher Stowe, a white woman, as who expressed her feelings through a literary representation of slavery to energizing anti-slavery forces, a conflict that is so opinionated which was downright dangerous at that time.



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