The Joe Laszlo Compatibility Quiz

Version 2.1

Welcome to the Joe Compatibility Quiz.
For each question, click on the radio button next to the response that most closely approximates your own thoughts and feelings. When you're satisfied with your answers, click on the "Gloom" button below. I'll tabulate the results. No fair tweaking your answers after!

  1. My Ideal Romantic Couple of all time is:
    1. Prince Charming and Cinderella
    2. Romeo and Juliet
    3. Buffy and Angel
    4. Gomez and Morticia

  2. A vampire is:
    1. a horrible mythical creature of darkness
    2. too cliche to merit any serious thought
    3. a manifestation of our subconscious anxiety about the essential relationship between sensuality and death
    4. what I want to be when I grow up

  3. Select the best analogy of the four below for Pain:Pleasure
    1. evil:good
    2. black:white
    3. red:violet
    4. bread:butter

  4. Requiem Masses are appropriate musical selections for:
    1. funerals only
    2. times when you're really, really depressed about things
    3. concert performances
    4. Sunday brunch

  5. An appropriate way to remember a dead loved one is to:
    1. make a donation to a charity in his/her name
    2. have friends over for a party to reminisce about his/her life
    3. have regular picnics at his/her grave, and occasionally sleep over
    4. keep his/her skull in a place of honor, and have conversations with it.

  6. The thing that scares me most is:
    1. Death
    2. Pain
    3. Love
    4. Boredom

  7. Invariably, the first section of the Economist I read is:
    1. I never read the Economist.
    2. I start with some section not listed in C or D below
    3. Books and arts, Science and technology, or Leaders
    4. Obituary

  8. Complete the sentence: Grey...
    1. is boring.
    2. is peaceful.
    3. is a dominant color in my wardrobe.
    4. would be the color, if I had a heart.

  9. Fill in the blank: I ____________ my emotions.
    1. constantly express even the slightest of
    2. am sometimes embarrassed by
    3. successfully repress most of
    4. derive great private amusement from torturing

  10. The world would be greatly improved if
    1. everyone knew how much God loves them.
    2. medical science cured all disease.
    3. people were a lot more tolerant of people who are different.
    4. there were a lot fewer people in it.
Bonus Questions
Score extra points! Please answer the following:
If you answered (a) to Question 7, please read the following sentence. I've at least heard of the Economist. True. False.
Do you know the source of the quotation appropriated for Question 8(d)? Yes. No.

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