Bittersweet Quiz How Bittersweet are you, at this moment in time? 12345678910111213141516 Quiz Instructions: Please indicate how much you agree with the following statements, from 0 (not at all) to 10 (completely).Do you tear up easily at touching TV commercials?(Required)012345678910 Are you especially moved by old photographs?(Required)012345678910 Do you react intensely to music, art, or nature?(Required)012345678910 Have others described you as an “old soul”?(Required)012345678910 Do you find comfort or inspiration in a rainy day?(Required)012345678910 Do you know what the author C. S. Lewis meant when he described joy as a “sharp, wonderful stab of longing”?(Required)012345678910 Do you prefer poetry to sports (or maybe you find the poetry in sports)?(Required)012345678910 Are you moved to goosebumps several times a day?(Required)012345678910 Do you see “the tears in things”? (This phrase comes from Virgil’s Aeneid.)(Required)012345678910 Do you feel elevated by sad music?(Required)012345678910 Do you tend to see the happiness and sadness in things, all at once?(Required)012345678910 Do you seek out beauty in your everyday life?(Required)012345678910 Does the word poignant especially resonate with you?(Required)012345678910 When you have conversations with close friends, are you drawn to talking about their past or current troubles?(Required)012345678910 And this: Do you feel the ecstatic is close at hand?(Required)012345678910CAPTCHA Susan Cain'S LATEST MASTERPIECEBittersweet How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole An exploration of the power of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook on life, and why our culture has been so blind to its value. View All