Have you got a spirit of adventure?


  1. You would make a parachute jump:
    1. Only in an emergency.
    2. If it was sponsored for charity.
    3. Only for pleasure.
  2. When choosing where to go on holiday,do you:
    1. Go to the same place as you went last year?
    2. Choose an area popular with tourists?
    3. Deliberately pick somewhere off the beaten track?
  3. A friend challenges you to sleep in a haunted house.Do you:
    1. Refuse?
    2. Accept as long as other people stay with you?
    3. Say yes without even a second thought?
  4. If you were offered a good job in another country,would you go?
    1. No.
    2. Yes,so long as it was a short-term contract.
    3. Yes.
  5. When you vidit a restaurant,do you:
    1. Order somethinng you'vetried before?
    2. Try something slightly different?
    3. Order a dish you've never tasted before?
  6. Would you ever go on blind dates with members of the opposite sex?
    1. No.
    2. Perhaps.
    3. Yes.
  7. Would you ever buy a house without seeing it?
    1. Under no circumstances.
    2. Only if you had no choice.
    3. If it was a good buy.
  8. Compared with five years ago,do you:
    1. Make fewer gambles in your life?
    2. Take as many risks?
    3. Take more chances?
  9. Would you go to prison on matter of principle?
    1. No.
    2. Perhaps.
    3. Yes.
  10. When you have a hunch,do you:
    1. ignore it?
    2. Agonise over whether to follow it or not?
    3. Follow it up?

        4. SCORING:Give yourself one point for each (a) answer,two for each (b) answer,three for each (c).
        10-17 points
        You don't take many risks and you prefer to be absolutely certain of where you stand before deciding anything. You are cautious and have the satisfaction of knowing that your life is well under control.
        18-24 points
        You think about all the possible problems of every new thing you do,and make your decisions after careful consideration of the risk invovles. Even so,you are not against a calculated risk occasionally as long as you won't be sacrificing too much if it goes wrong.
        28-30 points
        You are ture adventurer, and you believe that any project worth working on has risks which have to be taken.Progress in ypur life is likely to be by leaps and bounds, with the occasional backward step when a gamble doesn't pay off.