Are You Bittersweet Or Sanguine? Take This Personality Quiz To Find Out

The purpose of the Bittersweet Quiz (and the Bittersweet book) is to help you assess whether you tend to be more sanguine or bittersweet in your orientation—and to gain insight into your way of being and into the often overlooked powers of bittersweetness.

There is no right or wrong way to be. There is only who you are at this moment in time. (Some of us become more bittersweet with age or after facing life's trials and triumphs.) Also, no matter where you fall on this scale, you are never all one thing! 

To find out how bittersweet you are, ask yourself these questions and indicate your level of agreement on a scale from zero (not at all) to 10 (completely):

To score yourself on the quiz, add up your responses and divide that total by 15.

Susan Cain developed this quiz, excerpted from Bittersweet, in collaboration with research scientist David Yaden and cognitive scientist Scott Barry Kaufman.