Victorian versus Romantic Quiz

For each pairing, select one that best fits your life or worldview.



You imagine what a perfect experience WILL soon be like: a vacation, a party, a night out

You wait to reflect on an experience afterwards





You tend to jump into experiences for the sake of experiencing

You have a set of ideal situations and you seek out those experiences intentionally





Emotion is a reactionary event to stimuli and duress

Emotion, an expression of living, is like a bursting well, a spring of intense force





You have popular-held beliefs of relationships or happiness but not necessarily traditional beliefs.

You reject (or ignore) most popular beliefs (traditional or not)





Concerning experiences and emotions, Joy is a better life than depression, love better than hate, beauty better than ugly

All experiences are worthy of having, life is about all types of experiences and emotions,not just "good" ones.





Nature is mystical, magical, and allows for random intense experiences

Nature is good; it's a good place to go once in a while, like the beach.





You daydream about experiences that you want to have, such as graduating college, getting married, or travelling

You tend not to plot every future desire, finding more joy in remembering experiences you have had





If you hear someone says they have a Platonic friendship with their bff, you believe that means they are sexually detached from one another

If you hear someone says they have a Platonic friendship with their bff, you believe that means they are spiritually or intellectually attached to one another





Against controlling personal 'environment,' leave yourself open to random people and places.

You feel a need to control your personal 'environment', such as friends, places you go, and people around you





I think that individuals who never attempt to rise above society are scary

I think that individuals who never attempt to be in a relationship are scary





I consider my views and ideas as part of, but not inherent within, others' views, such as friends, family, and community

I center my views and ideas relative to others' views, such as friends, family, and community.





I sometimes see myself as if there is a camera filming me and I am part of a movie.

I sometimes believe the weather shifts and changes according to my moods





Myself and others should seek to use reason and then emotion

Myself and others should seek to use emotion and then reason





City penthouse apartment

Elegant cottage next to a stream in the woods





The world would be a better place if everyone really sought to be the most educated and achieve the most they could

The world would be a better place if everyone sought to help each other more than themselves.





I belong to a specific church or religion. I am religious

I do not belong to a church or religion; I have a personal spiritualism





Death and dying is a depressing and serious subject that is best avoided when possible.

Death and dying are wonderfully terrifying thoughts to ponder.





The word "irrational" has a negative sound to it.

Seeking the "irrational" allows me to have a better imagination





In excitable, deadly, or scary experiences, I tend to hold back emotional and sensual actions

In excitable, deadly, or scary experiences, I tend to let loose emotional and sensual actions





People should check their passion and express it suitably.

All of life should focus on passions.





My imagination mostly attempts to understand higher truths of life.

My imagination mostly focuses on fulfilling my wants and dreams





If given free-time, I seek the weird, and mysterious

If given free time, I seek excitement to avoid the drudgery of everyday life.





A romantic hero in a story often saves others from loneliness and drudgery

A romantic hero is a lone wandering adventurer with little to no deep ties to anyone or any place.





Spontaneity must be given space to occur naturally and often

By being occasional spontaneous I can find something that leads to eventual happiness and security.





Beauty as a life truly lived, even mud is beautiful, squishing accidentally between one's toes.

Like it or not, there is beauty and there is ugliness and those will always exist.





Life should be lived by approaching everything with an innocence, like a child does.

Life is about having experiences to find wisdom and to surpass childish innocence.





When giving friends advice, I often use psychological terms and self-help ideas.

When giving friends advice I often refer to narratives from films, the Bible, literature, or myths and stories.





In a real and true romance story, the two people destined to be together eventually end up together

In a real and true romance story, the two people are separated in some way and they can never be together.





A romance is mostly about the feelings a person carries throughout life for another person

A romance is mostly about the relationship and bond that forms between people





I tend to dress in style

I tend to dress in what fits my mood.







If I were to write a poem to someone, it would be to express how I felt.

If I were to write a poem to someone, it would express how I feel