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Do you tear up easily at touching TV commercials?
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Are you especially moved by old photographs?
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Do you react intensely to music, art, or nature?
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Have others described you as an “old soul”?
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Do you find comfort or inspiration in a rainy day?
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Do you know what the author C. S. Lewis meant when he described joy as a “sharp, wonderful stab of longing”?
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Do you prefer poetry to sports (or maybe you find the poetry in sports)?
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Are you moved to goosebumps several times a day?
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Do you see “the tears in things”? (This phrase comes from Virgil's Aeneid.)
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Do you feel elevated by sad music?
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Do you tend to see the happiness and sadness in things, all at once?
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Do you seek out beauty in your everyday life?
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Does the word poignant especially resonate with you?
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When you have conversations with close friends, are you drawn to talking about their past or current troubles?
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And this: Do you feel the ecstatic is close at hand?
The presented answer sheet is not an original form and is not intended for printing or use as a handout.