In each group of five statements, choose the two things, but only two statements, from each group. Make two choices even if it may seem difficult in some instances.
When you have chosen a statement, put it number on your blank piece of paper in scoring.
A- Thing you Like to do
1- Go to a Parent- Teachers' committee meeting
2- Attend a neighborhood movie.
3- Go to a home furnishing exhibit.
5- Listen to a lecture on the international situation.
6- Read the local- society section of the newspaper.
7- Read the editorial section of the newspaper.
9- Read the local news in a newspaper
10- Read the household-hints section of a newspaper.
11- Shop for a spring hat
12- Browse through old stores for antiques
13- Shop for inexpensive secondhand chairs
15- Shop for a beautiful but simple oriental scroll
16- Work in your garden
17- Rummage through old boxe
18- Plan a dinner for a family or friends
19-write letters to relatives in others cities
20- Write an article or commentary for a professional journal.
21- Select the materials for making some new curtains
22- Make the curtains according to your taste, and hang them
23- Explain others how curtains are selected, made and hung
24- Show friends the room in which your new curtains are of central interest.
25- Find the best decorator to handle curtain problems.
B- Things you like or don't like
26- Admiration from your friends
27- Loyalty from your friends
28- Respect from your friends
30- Attention from your friends
31- Picnics
32- Cocktail parties
33- Cafeteria meals
34- Tea Room luncheon
35- Buffet diners
36 Mathematics
37- Literature
38- Dramatics
39- Social psychology
40- Applied sciences
41- Optimists
42- Polite people
43- Witty people
44- Logical people
45- Thrifty practical people
46- A job with a respectable-sounding title
47- Steady employment
48- Congenial personal relations on the job
49- Opportunity to try out your ideas.
50- Variety in the work to avoid monotony
Describe yourself
51- A good mixer socially
52- Thorough in every detail
53- Completely reliable
54- Quite aggressive
55- Always natural and at ease
56- Have a great many friends
57- Have few, but close, friends
58- Inclined to be quiet and a little self-effacing
59- Make friends casually under almost any conditions
60 Enjoy and depend, to some extent, on the attention of others
61- Like to argue, but even-tempered
62- Quixote conciliatory in most situations
63- Enjoy being different from the run of the mill
64- Go along with the crowd if personal matters are not involved
65. Make every effort to avoid or forestall disputes
66- Quite precise about details
67- Leave details to others whenever possible
68- Very good at conceiving and developing plans
69- Best at administering plans already established
70- Like to " plan as you go along"
71- Good at looking from every possible viewpoint
72- Good at adapting old ideas or materials to new uses
73- Good at thinking up unusual and new ideas quickly
74- Good at spotting defects or deficiencies in daily situations
75 Good at breaking away completely from habitual thinking
76- Are objective and open-minded
77- Have strong opinions and are not afraid to back them up
78- Enjoy telling jokes to groups of people
79- Like to play around with ideas, especially novel ones
80- Do not care much about other people's opinions about yourself.
81- Like to talk with two or three people with similar interests
82- Enjoy being a part of a fairly large social group
83- Like private chats with influential persons
84- Like to chat with old friends, one at a time.
85- Enjoy talking to anybody, if he is not pressed for time.
86- Like to live in the city, particularly New York
87- Prefer the characteristics of suburban life.
88- Life to be isolated from noise, people, centers of activity.
89- Restlessness urges change of location every few years.
90- Like " elbow room" even if the place may be a bit run down
91- Foreigners stimulate and enrich your life.
92- Distrustful of " foreigners" though perhaps you like some
93- Find it almost impossible to answer an ambiguous question
94- Have no trouble at all answering ambiguous questions.
95- Consider possible results before deciding questions of ethics.
96- Take life very seriously, regret that others don't' do so more
97- Take life lightly 's day at a time
98- Prefer to be a big frog in a little pond
99- Would rather be a little frog in a big pond
100- Look on life as an experiment- no one knows the answer
101- Outwardly a good loser, but it rankles for a long time inside
102- A hard loser in every respect- and show it.
103- Easy come, easy go-a good loser with no grudges
104- Act like a poor loser at the time, but really accept it philosophically
105- Very unemotional-act and feel almost the same whether you win or lose.
106- Consider most people, "the mass," rather stupide
107- Consider almost everyone, saint or sinner, basically good.
108- Consider all but friends potentially, if not actually, suspicious.
109- Accept everyone as a good person until proved wrong
110- Consider only people with personalities as "worthwhile"
111- Believe in an actual physical Hell in the hereafter
112- Thin most people should believe in Hell for their own good
114- Feel that actually everybody will really go to Heaven
115- Do not care whether there is Hell or not.
116- Are tactful out of an inner sense of kindness
117- Want to be tactful, but in being earnest, sometimes lose tact
118- Tact is an instrument- to be used where it will to be most good
119- Feel honesty comes before tact, except in special situations
120- Kindly-rarely conscious of the concept of tact
121- Thin-skinned feelings are fairly hurt
122- Thick-skinned; not bothered by what others say about you
123- Become flustered when under observation or supervision
124- Like sharing rewards and responsibility as member of a "team"
125- Accept supervision only if the supervisor is a qualified superior
Scoring Instructions For the Test
The scoring is based on five Types of homes. Each choice you made in the test counts one point for one or another of the types. Below are the home types with a brief description of each- and the test answer that count for that particular type
Type A - Contemporary Conventional
This type of home is best exemplified by the average real estate dealer's offering in a city or suburban development. House is usually pretty new, though it may need some repairs. Designed for efficiency in modern life, although rooms are likely to be small and boxlike compared with older houses. Many electrical gadgets to reduce the drudgery of household chores. Often comparatively new materials will have been used. Ceilings likely to be low, and little space between your house and your neighbors'. You may be able to mutually "enjoy" home-clean, convenient- but not inspiring in spirit.
scoring points 1,9,11,18,24,26,31,39,41,46,54,56,64,69,71,78,83,87,95,99,101,107,112,118,124.
Type B - Old Fashioned
Usually found in smaller cities, or in the older sections of a city. Likely to be rather small in terms of number of rooms, but the rooms may be more spacious than in type A, the ceilings higher, and there may be both an attic and cellar. Antiques and heirlooms may dominate the furnishings. There is likely to be a piano, and perhaps no TV. There will be a tendency toward fussiness and ornamentation in furnishings. Bonheur or Landseer. Doilies, bric-a-brac, and quaint pieces of fur geared to the demands of modern life.
scoring points 3,6,13,19,22,27,34,37,42,48,53,58,65,66,74,77,84,88,92,96,102,108,11,116,121.
Type C - Modernistic, Sophisticated Severe Chic, efficient.
A minimum of ornamentation, and a maximum of built-in gadgets. An emphasis on efficiency and expensive elegance. Much glass used to bring in direct light from outside. Ingenius use of concealed artificial light. Straight and smooth sleek surfaces predominate, Objects of oriental origin often used for decoration. Interior itself may reflect a strong oriental influence. Severe, sophisticated and often charming.
scoring points: 5, 7,15,20,25,29,35,36,44,49,52,57,61,68,75,76,81,86,93,100,105,106,113,119,125.
Type D - " Barn into a House"
This house gives maximum expression to the owner's personality. House may be actually or figuratively made from a barn. Many old objects have been converted to uses entirely unrelated to their previous functions (i.e., a spinning wheel made over into a floor lamp). Extensive use often made of bargain materials, used originally. House usually in a state of change and alteration. Represents creative activity- High personalized.
scoring points 4,10,12,17,21,30,32,38,43,50,51,60,63,70,72,79,82,89,91,98,104,110,115,117,123.
Type E- " House into a Barn"
This type of house is large, amorphous and follows no set style or design- although at one time it may have. Occupant is one who wants room and freedom from restrictions and social pressures of all kinds. House may have been an old mansion in a currently unfashionable part of town, now repaired and functional, more than ever before. Very little reflection of the occupant's personality except for its practicableness and haphazard style. Has an air of informality- nothing done for the impression it will make. A good place to work, rest, and pursue special interests. maximum of space, minimum of planning and care.
scoring points 2,8,14,16,23,28,33,40,45,47,55,59,62,67,73,80,85,90,94,97,103,109,114,120,122.
Evaluate your test
21 or more points: A definite compatibility between your personality and interest pattern and the type of home indicated. Spend a good bit of time investigating these possibilities further in the light of your own situation.
16 to 20 points: This type of home should receive consideration too. But keep a wary eye open for characteristics in the house that might not quite suit you.
11 to 15 points: This type of home has both advantages and disadvantages about being evenly balanced for you.
6 to 10 points: There are substantial elements in your interest and personality patterns that do not fit this type of home very well. If this does not seem to agree with your personal feelings, check into the situation carefully.
0 to 5 points: Such a wide discrepancy between your personality and interest patterns and those that appear to be suited to this type of house suggests that you spend most of your time and effort considering types of houses on which you made higher scores.
From the book : Decorating Begins with You by Mary Jean Alexander
