This document contains instructions for completing The Proust Questionnaire, which asks 27 questions about a person's ideas, values, and experiences. Students in Professor Will Adams' Introduction to Humanities class are asked to answer each question in a complete sentence and attach additional sheets if needed. The questions cover topics like one's idea of happiness, greatest fears, role models, regrets, loves, talents, and philosophy of life.

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The Proust Questionnaire • Name:
Please answer the following questions in complete sentences. There are no incorrect answers
to these questions – with the exception of “I don’t know”. Attach additional sheets as
necessary if the spaces provided are insufficient.
1. What is your idea of perfect
happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. Which living person do you most
admire?
4. What is your favorite journey?
5. What do you consider the most
overrated virtue?
6. On what occasion do you lie?
7. What do you dislike most about your
appearance?
8. Which words or phrases do you most
overuse?
9. What is your greatest regret?
10. What or who is the greatest love of
your life?
11. When and where were you happiest?
12. Which talent would you like most to
have?
13. What is your current state of mind?
14. If you could change one thing about
yourself, what would it be?
15. If you could change one thing about
your family, what would it be?
16. What do you consider your biggest
achievement?
17. If you were to die and come back as
one person or thing, what do you think
it would be?
18. If you could choose what to come
back as, what would it be?
19. What is your most treasured
possession?
20. What do you regard as the lowest
depth of misery?
21. Where would you like to live?

2. 22. What is your most marked
characteristic?
23. What do you most value in your
friends?
24. Who are your heroes in real life?
25. What is it that you most dislike?
26. How would you like to die?
27. What is your motto?