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Take the
“Howling Wolf’s Scribe” Creative Writing Preference Classifier
©2007 by Anne
Hart
Are you best-suited to be a digital interactive or ethnographic
story writer, a nonfiction writer, or a mystery writer using historic themes? Do
you think like a fiction writer? Take the writing style preference classifier
and find out how you approach your favorite writing style using Zabeyko’s facts
and acts.
Which genre is for you--interactive, traditional, creative nonfiction, fiction,
decisive or investigative? Would you rather write for readers that need to
interact with their own story endings or plot branches? Which style best fits
you? What’s your writing profile?
Take this ancient echoes writing
genre interest classifier and see the various ways in which way you can be more
creative. Do you prefer to write investigative, logical nonfiction or
imaginative fiction—or a mixture of both? There are 35 questions—seven questions
for each of the five pairs. There are 10 choices.
The Choices:
Grounded Verve
Rational
Enthusiastic
Decisive Investigative
Loner Outgoing
Traditional
Change-Driven
Writer's
Creativity Style Preference Classifier
Use the clues to inspire your own
creativity in writing historic or mystery fiction. You are a mystery writer
working on an interactive audio book of stories with clues for the Web about a
scribe and music composer prodigy,
Zabeyko, who lives and
works in Wolkowysk (Howling Wolf), White Russia (now Belarus) near Bialystok of
1812, in the ancient Grodno province the time Napoleon visited.
Zabeyko’s
father, Kutkowski, has unending adventures trying to track down the person who
gifted the multi-lingual musical prodigy child,
Zabeyko,
with a golden scholarship to study musical performance far away in Venice.
Zabeyko, son of a Tatar prince,
is the young, adopted son of the famous Baltic wolf tamer,
Polotskay
Kutkowski. Surrounding the area is
a forest known historically for its howling wolves. In Kutkowski’s gentle hands,
the wolves sing opera as they stand on the rooftops of light-reflecting
gingerbread-type houses in the midst of snowy winters and, tall, fresh-scented
pine trees.
It’s December, and the holidays
are being celebrated among Wolkowysk’s diverse and expanding population. The
nation has just fallen back again under Russian rule.
When music prodigy,
Zabeyko
mysteriously disappears from his music tutor, Azarello, in Vienna when he was
supposed to be studying music with that tutor in Venice, you as the mystery
writer and scribe are in a race against time to save
Zabeyko’s
teenaged fiancée, Jadwiga, from being forced into an unwilling marriage with
Zabeyko’s
first childhood music tutor and male nanny, Jagello of the Zamkover forest.
Jagello told Zabyeko’s father that his son, probably murdered by river bandits,
is buried in Vienna on lands owned by the music tutor from Venice who has fled
to family in Vienna.
You are hired as the scribe and
investigator, much like an early investigative journalist who must follow clues
and solve the mystery for his step father, Polotskay Kutkowski. But there is
another famous wolf tamer in town. Your ‘avatar’name is Efrosinia.
It is Jagello, who owns a
competing traveling circus. Both Kutkowski and Jagello are wealthy land owners
who compete in their circus acts, and both own equally prosperous traveling
circuses.
Jagello is determined to become
the greatest wolf tamer of them all in his traveling circus by marrying the
wealthy Jadwiga. How will you write this interactive story, according to your
writing style preferences?
Clues
The leading character is
Napoleon’s greatest enemy of the howling wolf forest, a wise, older woman,
Efrosinia,
the scribe and healer who knows exactly which plants will heal and nurse the
villagers back to health. Efrosinia, the scribe and healer is rightly named
after Efrosinia Polatskaya, a patron saint (who took a new name, Pradslava) of
the land now called Belarus. You are now Efrosinia.
As a leading character, Efrosinia
is a woman of 1812 fortunate enough to have inherited wealth from an ancestral
line of architects. She grew up as a friend to the Kutkowski extended family.
This character, Efrosinia, is your alter ego and takes on your own personality
as she solves problems or crimes using her healing touch.
1. To write your story, would you
prefer to
a. go to the Belarus archives in order to have translated two letters sent by
Zabeyko’s
teenage fiancée, Jadwiga to the 1812 ruler of Wolkowysk asking to send her a new
fiancé (down-to-earth) or
b. dig deeper and find out the connections between the two documents, reading
fear between the lines and noting the reluctance
Zabeyko’s
fiancée expresses in being forced to marry her servant, the tutor, Jagello?
(verve)
a. □
b. □
2. Would you be more interested in
researching history and writing about
a. the closeness or distance of the relationships that surfaced between the
Belarus farmers, Baltic Lithuanians, Russians, and the Poles (enthusiastic) or
b. analyze the business deals and diplomatic events between these equal powers
to see who was winning the race to becoming the superpower of the century?
(rational)
a. □
b. □
3. Are you more interested in the fact that
a. Zabeyko’s
teenage fiancée, Jadwiga wrote all her letters in Swedish, not in the Belarus
(White Russian) dialect (down-to-earth) or
b.
Zabeyko’s
father, Polotskay
Kutkowski, was so hated after his
death because he worshipped the spirits inhabiting pine trees, that his face was
scratched off all his monuments and wall friezes in his traveling circus?
(verve)
a. □
b. □
4. Would you rather write about
a. Zabeyko
being adopted, sent as a gift from a Tatar trader during his step father's
festival celebrating the birth of his 12th son (enthusiastic) or
b. the mystery of why Zabeyko
turned up “buried in Budapest” (never reaching Venice) near his music teacher’s
land with both the Tatar horse amulet, a tamga, on his neck and a cobra twisted
into music notes on his headstone? (rational)?
a. □
b. □
5. You are Jadwiga. Would you rather
a. exercise your right as a fiancée to claim Zabeyko's unmarried Tatar brother,
Prince Atil (enthusiastic) or
b. marry Zabeyko's male nanny, Jagello because it's only right and fair to
restore a Tatar prince in hiding from his throne even while he dwells in
Wolkowysk, as he works with equally brilliant Jadwiga? (rational)
a. □
b. □
6. Zabeyko's fiancée wrote to her
father-in-law to send her another of his sons for marriage to her. As a writer
of her life story, would you rather
a. create a laundry list of princes either Tatar, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian,
or of Wolkowysk, that she must interview and screen in a dating game
(down-to-earth) or
b. create a story where she rides
1,000 miles across the forests and steppes to run away from Zabeyko’s tutor,
Jagello after he forces her to marry him. Finding herself childless, she then
studies design disguised as a 14-year old boy. But growing wiser and older, she
travels in disguise along the Silk Road to study architecture where she meets
her true soul mate and business partner. (verve)
a. □
b. □
7. Are you more interested in
ending your story with
a. Jagello marrying Zabeyko's fiancée, Jadwiga, then quickly getting rid of
Jadwiga as Jagello marries Zabeyko’s adoptive grand mother, Pradislava, for her
land and property.as his second wife, so that you have closure and an ending for
your story (decisive) or
b. would you rather let your story remain open for serialization, since
Zabeyko's fiancée is never heard from again and disappears just like Zabeyko
did after Jagello marries her and then marries his adoptive grandmother,
Pradislava. The fate of Zabeyko’s fiancée after marrying Zabeyko’s tutor,
Jagello is not recorded in history. (investigative)
a. □
b. □
8. If you were a Tatar prince
living in a foreign land, would you prefer to
a. decide immediately to obey the diverse European nobles of Wolkowysk and leave
Tataristan to marry Jadwiga of the howling wolf forests because duty required
it, knowing you'll probably be killed when you arrive by the same person who
killed Zabeyko, (decisive) or
b. stall for time as long as possible, waiting for validated information to
arrive regarding the diplomatic climate between Tatars and Russians?
(investigative).
a. □
b. □
9.
You are Zabeyko, a Tatar prince adopted in infancy by a wealthy Belarus owner of
many traveling circus acts. You have been given as a gift from the Tatar king to
the Baltic Tribes because his wife had six daughters and no sons.
If you were Zabeyko, would you
a. speak in the Tatar tongue in front of your Slavic tutor, thereby possibly
inflaming the nationalism in him (investigative) or
b. plan and organize methodically to have a whole line of people close to you
from your own Tataristan rather than from the Slavic lands in which you were
raised?
(decisive)
a. □
b. □
10. Would you rather write about
a. terms of the treaty between Tatars and the Slavs based on the facts provided
by records (down-to-earth) or
b. the theories set in motion when Jagello marries Jadwiga and soon after, she
disappears, just like her financee, Zabeyko, and Jabello then marries Zabeyko’s
mother? (verve)
a. □
b. □
11. Do you like writing about
a. enigmas or puzzles set in motion by symbols on intimate funerary equipment in
a mystery novel (rational) or
b. why no other Tatar royalty emblem after Zabeyko’s life span ever again
appeared on a medallion with a horse tamga inscribed in scrimshaw ivory with a
vulture? (enthusiastic)
a. □
b. □
12. A tag line shows the
mood/emotion in the voice--how a character speaks or acts. Are you more
interested in
a. compiling, counting,
and indexing citations or quotes from how-to books for writers
(down-to-earth) or
b. compiling tag lines that explain in fiction dialogue the specific
behaviors or gestures such as, “Yes, he replied timorously.”? (verve)
a. □
b. □
13. Would you rather write
a. dialog (enthusiastic) or
b. description? (rational)
a. □
b. □
14. To publicize your writing,
would you rather
a. give spectacular presentations or shows without preparation or prior notice
(investigative) or
b. have to prepare a long time in advance to speak or perform? (decisive)
a. □
b. □
15. If you were Jadwiga, would you
prefer to
a. receive warnings well in advance and without surprises that Jagello is
planning to get rid of you and marry your would-be mother-in-law (adoptive
grandmother of Zabeyko) so you could conveniently disappear (decisive) or
b. adapt to last-moment changes by never getting down to your last man or your
last coin? (investigative)
a. □
b. □
16. As a scribe, artist, and poet
in Wolkowysk when Napoleon visited, would you
a. feel constrained by Zabeyko's time schedules and deadlines (investigative) or
b. set realistic timetables and juggle priorities? (decisive)
a. □
b. □
17. As Zabeyko's widow, do you
feel bound to
a. go with social custom, do the activities itemized on the social calendar, and
marry your dead husband's
unmarried brother because it's organized according to a plan (decisive) or
b. go with the flow of the relationship, deal with issues as they arise, make no
commitments or assumptions about what's the right thing to do because time
changes plans? (investigative)
a. □
b. □
18. You're the Tatar prince
reading Jadwiga’s,
desperate letter. Is your reply to Jadwiga more likely to be
a. one brief, concise, and to the point letter (rational) or
b. one sociable, friendly, empathetic and time-consuming letter? (enthusiastic)
a. □
b. □
19. You're the Tatar prince and
music prodigy, Zabeyko, adopted and re-named by Belarus step-parents. You’re
contemplating who wants more to replace you with a local noble. You make a list
of
a. the pros and cons of each person close to you (rational) or
b. varied comments from friends and relatives on what they say behind your back
regarding how your influence them and what they want from you. (enthusiastic)
a. □
b. □
20. You're the scribe trying to
solve Zabeyko's murder in Vienna when he was supposed to be studying music in
Venice. Would you rather investigate
a. the tried and true facts about Jagello (down-to-earth) or
b. want to see what's in the overall picture before you fill in the clues?
(verve)
a. □
b. □
21. You’re a scribe painting
Zabeyko's tomb shortly after his demise and you
a. seldom make errors of detail when looking for clues such as taking notice of
Jagello’s wedding present to the young, healthy Jadwiga--her freshly inscribed
coffin. (down-to-earth) or
b. prefer more innovative work like writing secret love poems to Jadwiga
disguised as prayers and watching for Zabeyko's ghost to escape through the
eight-inch square hole you cut in his headstone. (verve)
a. □
b. □
22. As a scribe in 1812 Wolkowysk,
you become
a. tired when you work alone all day in a dimly torchlit room (outgoing) or
b. tired when Zabeyko interrupts your concentration on your work to demand that
you greet and entertain his guests all evening at banquets. (loner).
a. □
b. □
23. When Jadwiga asks you as a
scribe to write love poems for her that she can send to Zabeyko, you
a. create the ideas for your poems by long discussions with her (outgoing) or
b. prefer to be alone when you reach deep down inside your spirit to listen to
what your soul entities tell you as the only resource for writing metaphors.
(loner)
a. □
b. □
24. You travel to Venice and
Vienna investigating the death of Zabeyko and prefer to
a. question many different foreigners and locals at boisterous celebrations in
different languages (outgoing) or
b. disregard outside events and look inside the family history/genealogy
inscriptions for the culprit. (loner)
a. □
b. □
25. Zabeyko, at age nine asks you
to develop ideas for him about how to act when writing music. You prefer to
develop ideas through
a. reflection, meditation, and prayer (loner) or
b. discussions and interviews among Zabeyko’s playmates on what makes Zabeyko
laugh. (outgoing)
a. □
b. □
26. As a scribe you are
a. rarely cautious about the family position of those with whom you socialize as
long as they are kind, righteous people who do good deeds (outgoing) or
b. seeking one person with power to raise you from scribe to noble, if only the
richest noble in Wolkowysk would ask your advice. (loner)
a. □
b. □
27. You are a designer and builder
of palaces. A rich noble asks you to carve a name for yourself on his palace
door that's a special representation of its builder. Would you
a. inscribe the word that means ‘remote’ (loner) or
b. choose a special name for yourself that means, “He who shares time easily
with many foreigners?” (outgoing)
a. □
b. □
28. As an early 19th
century scribe, do you work better when you
a. spend your day off daydreaming where no one can see you (loner) or
b. spend your free time training teams of apprentice scribes? (outgoing)
a. □
b. □
29. If you discovered a new land,
would you build your cities upon
a. your wise elders’ principles as
they always have worked well before (traditional) or
b. unfamiliar cargo that traders
brought from afar? (change-driven)
a.□
b.□
30. Do you depict your ruler’s
victories on a stone column exactly as
a. surviving witnesses from both
sides recounted the events (change-driven) or
b. only the ruler wants people to
see? (traditional)
a.□
b.□
31. If you’re self-motivated,
would you avoid learning from your overseer because
a. your overseer doesn’t keep up
with the times (change-driven) or
b. your overseer doesn’t let you
follow in your father’s footsteps? (traditional)
a.□
b.□
32. Would you prefer to
a. train scribes because your
father taught you how to do it well (traditional) or
b. move quickly from one project
to another forever? (change-driven)
a.□
b.□
33. Do you feel like an outsider
when
a. you think more about the future
than about current chores (change-driven) or
b. invaders replace your
forefathers’ familiar foods with unfamiliar cuisine? (traditional)
a.□
b.□
34. Do you quickly
a. solve problems for those inside
when you’re coming from outside (change-driven) or
b. refuse to spend your treasures
to develop new ideas that might fail? (traditional)
a.□
b.□
35. Would you rather listen to and
learn from philosophers that
a. predict a future in which old
habits are replaced with new ones (change-driven) or
b. are only interested in
experiencing one day at a time? (traditional)
a.□
b.□
Self-Scoring the Test
Add up the
number of answers for each of the following ten writing style traits for the 36
questions. There are seven questions for each group. The ten categories are made
up of five opposite pairs.
Down-to-earth
Verve
Rational
Enthusiastic
Decisive
Investigative
Loner Outgoing
Traditional
Change-Driven
Then put the
numbers for each answer next to the categories. See the same self-scored test
and results below.
1. Total Down-to-earth
6. Total Verve
2. Total Rational
7. Total Enthusiastic
3. Total Decisive
8. Total Investigative
4. Total
Loner 9. Total Outgoing
5. Total Traditional
10. Total Change-Driven
To get your
score, you’re only adding up the number of answers for each of the 10 categories
(five pairs) above. See the sample self-scored test below. Note that there are
seven questions for each of the five pairs (or 10 designations). There are 35
questions. Seven questions times five categories equal 35 questions. Keep the
number of questions you design for each category equal.
***
Here is a
Sample Self-Scored Assessment with Answers
Take the
“Howling Wolf’s Scribe” Creative Writing Preference Classifier
©2007 by Anne
Hart
Are you best-suited to be a digital interactive or ethnographic
story writer, a nonfiction writer, or a mystery writer using historic themes? Do
you think like a fiction writer? Take the writing style preference classifier
and find out how you approach your favorite writing style using Zabeyko’s facts
and acts.
Which genre is for you--interactive, traditional, creative nonfiction, fiction,
decisive or investigative? Would you rather write for readers that need to
interact with their own story endings or plot branches? Which style best fits
you? What’s your writing profile?
Take this ancient echoes writing
genre interest classifier and see the various ways in which way you can be more
creative. Do you prefer to write investigative, logical nonfiction or
imaginative fiction—or a mixture of both? There are 35 questions—seven questions
for each of the five pairs. There are 10 choices.
The 10
Choices:
The Choices:
Grounded Verve
Rational
Enthusiastic
Decisive
Investigative
Loner
Outgoing
Traditional Change-Driven
Sample
Scores
Total Down-to-earth
0 Total Verve 5
Total Rational
0 Total Enthusiastic 7
Total
Decisive 0 Total Investigative 7
Total
Loner 4 Total Outgoing 3
Total Traditional
2 Total Change-Driven 5
In the already self-scored sample
assessment that follows, the four highest numbers of answers are enthusiastic,
investigative, imaginative loner. Choose the highest numbers first as having the
most importance (or weight) in your writing style preference. Therefore, your
own creative writing style and the way you plot your character’s
actions, interests, and goals (for fiction writing and specifically mystery
writing) is an enthusiastic investigative vivacious
(verve-with-imagination) loner. Your five personality letters would
be: E I V L C. (Scramble the letters to make a word to remember, the name
Clive, in this case.)
Note that there is a tie between C
and V. Both have a score of ‘5’. However, since ‘V’ (verve) which signifies
vivacious imagination with gusto competes with ‘C’ being change-driven, the
‘verve’ in the vivacious personality wracked with creative imagination would
wither in a traditional corporation that emphasizes routinely running a tight
ship. Traditional firms seek to imitate successful corporations of the past that
worked well and still work. They don’t need to be fixed often unless they make
noise.
Instead, the dominantly
change-driven creative individual would flourish better with a forward-looking,
trend-setting creative corporation and build security from flexibility of job
skill. When in doubt, turn to action verbs to communicate your ‘drive.’ If
you’re misplaced, you won’t connect as well with co-workers and may be dubbed “a
loose canon.”
You know you’re in the right job
when your personality connects with the group to share meaning. Communication is
the best indicator of your personality matching a corporation’s character
traits. It’s all about connecting more easily.
Your main character or alter-ego
could probably be an enthusiastic investigative imaginative loner. But you’d not
only have lots of imagination and creativity—but also verve, that vivacious
gusto. You’d have fervor, dash, and élan.
The easily excitable,
investigative, creative/imaginative loner described as having verve, is more
likely to represent what you feel inside your core personality, your
self-insight, as you explore your own values and interests.
It’s what you feel like, what your
values represent on this test at this moment in time. That’s how a lot of
personality tests work. This one is customized for fiction writers. Another test
could be tailored for career area interests or for analyzing what stresses you.
Think of your personality as your virtues.
Qualities on this customized test
that are inherent in the test taker who projects his or her values and
personality traits onto the characters would represent more of a sentimental,
charismatic, imaginative, investigative individual who likes to work alone most
of the time.
The person could at times be more
change-driven than traditional. The real test is whether the test taker is
consistent about these traits or values on many different assessments of
interests, personality, or values.
What’s being tested here is
imaginative fiction writing style. Writing has a personality, genre, or
character of its own. The writing style and values are revealed in the way the
characters drive the plot.
These sample test scores measure
the preference, interest, and trait of the writer. The tone and mood are
measured in this test. It’s a way of sharing meaning, of communicating by
driving the characters and the plot in a selected direction.
This assessment ‘score’ reveals a
fiction writer who is enthusiastically investigative in tone, mood, and texture.
These ‘traits’ or values apply to the writer as well as to the primary
characters in the story.
The traits driving a writer’s
creativity also drive the main characters. Writer and characters work in a
partnership of alter egos to move the plot forward. A creativity test lets you
select and express the action, attitudes, and values of the story in a world
that you shape according to clues, critical thinking, and personal likes. Below
you’ll see the definitions of the 10 key word choices in this assessment
followed by the sample assessment that already is self-scored.
***
Definitions of the 10 Key Words
Change-Driven Visionary and
forward-looking.
Decisive Choices
based upon feedback and avoiding blind spots
Enthusiastic Charismatic
and passionate
Grounded
Reality-based and driven by hindsight and pitfalls
Investigative Vigilant
Loner
Inner-directed
Outgoing Energized by
spoken communication and touch
Traditional Imitating and following successful giants whose
plans work
Rational Logical
and critical thinker
Verve
Imagination based on the big picture, and not small details.
Here’s the
Sample Self-Scored Assessment
1. To write your story, would you
prefer to
a. go to the Belarus archives in order to have translated two letters sent by
Zabeyko’s
teenage fiancée, Jadwiga to the 1812 ruler of Wolkowysk asking to send her a new
fiancé (down-to-earth) or
b. dig deeper and find out the connections between the two documents, reading
fear between the lines and noting the reluctance
Zabeyko’s
fiancée expresses in being forced to marry her servant, the tutor, Jagello?
(verve)
a. □
b. ■
2. Would you be more interested in
researching history and writing about
a. the closeness or distance of the relationships that surfaced between the
Belarus farmers, Baltic Lithuanians, Russians, and the Poles (enthusiastic) or
b. analyze the business deals and diplomatic events between these equal powers
to see who was winning the race to becoming the superpower of the century?
(rational)
a. ■
b. □
3. Are you more interested in the fact that
a. Zabeyko’s
teenage fiancée, Jadwiga wrote all her letters in Swedish, not in the Belarus
(White Russian) dialect (down-to-earth) or
b.
Zabeyko’s
father, Polotskay
Kutkowski, was so hated after his
death because he worshipped the spirits inhabiting pine trees, that his face was
scratched off all his monuments and wall friezes in his traveling circus?
(verve)
a. □
b. ■
4. Would you rather write about
a. Zabeyko
being adopted, sent as a gift from a Tatar trader during his step father's
festival celebrating the birth of his 12th son (enthusiastic) or
b. the mystery of why Zabeyko
turned up “buried in Budapest” (never reaching Venice) near his music teacher’s
land with both the Tatar horse amulet, a tamga, on his neck and a cobra twisted
into music notes on his headstone? (rational)?
a. ■
b. □
5. You are Jadwiga. Would you
rather
a. exercise your right as a fiancée to claim Zabeyko's unmarried Tatar brother,
Prince Atil (enthusiastic) or
b. marry Zabeyko's male nanny, Jagello because it's only right and fair to
restore a Tatar prince in hiding from his throne even while he dwells in
Wolkowysk, the foreign land that has invited him for his brilliance in
architecture as he works along with equally brilliant and beautiful Jadwiga?
(rational)
a. ■
b. □
6. Zabeyko's fiancée wrote to her
father-in-law to send her another of his sons for marriage to her. As a writer
of her life story, would you rather
a. create a laundry list of princes either Tatar, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian,
or of Wolkowysk, that she must interview and screen in a dating game
(down-to-earth) or
b. create a story where she rides
1,000 miles across the forests and steppes to run away from Zabeyko’s tutor,
Jagello after he forces her to marry him. Finding herself childless, she then
studies design disguised as a 14-year old boy. But growing wiser and older, she
travels in disguise along the Silk Road to study architecture where she meets
her true soul mate and business partner. (verve)
a. □
b. ■
7. Are you more interested in
ending your story with
a. Jagello marrying Zabeyko's fiancée, Jadwiga, then quickly getting rid of
Jadwiga as Jagello marries Zabeyko’s adoptive grand mother, Pradislava, for her
land and property.as his second wife, so that you have closure and an ending for
your story (decisive) or
b. would you rather let your story remain open for serialization, since
Zabeyko's fiancée is never heard from again and disappears just like Zabeyko
did after Jagello marries her and then marries his adoptive grandmother,
Pradislava. The fate of Zabeyko’s fiancée after marrying Zabeyko’s tutor,
Jagello is not recorded in history. (investigative)
a. □
b. ■
8. If you were a Tatar prince
living in a foreign land, would you prefer to
a. decide immediately to obey the diverse European nobles of Wolkowysk and leave
Tataristan to marry Jadwiga of the howling wolf forests because duty required
it, knowing you'll probably be killed when you arrive by the same person who
killed Zabeyko, (decisive) or
b. stall for time as long as possible, waiting for validated information to
arrive regarding the diplomatic climate between Tatars and Russians?
(investigative).
a. □
b. ■
9. You are Zabeyko, a Tatar prince
adopted in infancy by a wealthy Belarus owner of many traveling circus acts. You
have been given as a gift from the Tatar king to the Baltic Tribes because his
wife had six daughters and no sons.
If you were Zabeyko, would you
a. speak in the Tatar tongue in front of your Slavic tutor, thereby possibly
inflaming the nationalism in him (investigative) or
b. plan and organize methodically to have a whole line of people close to you
from your own Tataristan rather than from the Slavic lands in which you were
raised?
(decisive)
a. ■
b. □
10. Would you rather write about
a. terms of the treaty between Tatars and the Slavs based on the facts provided
by records (down-to-earth) or
b. the theories set in motion when Jagello marries Jadwiga and soon after, she
disappears, just like her financee, Zabeyko, and Jabello then marries Zabeyko’s
mother? (verve)
a. □
b. ■
11. Do you like writing about
a. enigmas or puzzles set in motion by symbols on intimate funerary equipment in
a mystery novel (rational) or
b. why no other Tatar royalty emblem after Zabeyko’s life span ever again
appeared on a medallion with a horse tamga inscribed in scrimshaw ivory with a
vulture? (enthusiastic)
a. □
b. ■
12. A tag line shows the
mood/emotion in the voice--how a character speaks or acts. Are you more
interested in
a. compiling, counting,
and indexing citations or quotes from how-to books for writers
(down-to-earth) or
b. compiling tag lines that explain in fiction dialogue the specific
behaviors or gestures such as, “Yes, he replied timorously.”? (verve)
a. □
b. ■
13. Would you rather write
a. dialog (enthusiastic) or
b. description? (rational)
a. ■
b. □
14. To publicize your writing,
would you rather
a. give spectacular presentations or shows without preparation or prior notice
(investigative) or
b. have to prepare a long time in advance to speak or perform? (decisive)
a. ■
b. □
15. If you were Jadwiga, would you
prefer to
a. receive warnings well in advance and without surprises that Jagello is
planning to get rid of you and marry your would-be mother-in-law (adoptive
grandmother of Zabeyko) so you could conveniently disappear (decisive) or
b. adapt to last-moment changes by never getting down to your last man or your
last coin? (investigative)
a. □
b. ■
16. As a scribe, artist, and poet
in Wolkowysk when Napoleon visited, would you
a. feel constrained by Zabeyko's time schedules and deadlines (investigative) or
b. set realistic timetables and juggle priorities? (decisive)
a. ■
b. □
17. As Zabeyko's widow, do you
feel bound to
a. go with social custom, do the activities itemized on the social calendar, and
marry your dead husband's unmarried
brother because it's organized according to a plan (decisive) or
b. go with the flow of the relationship, deal with issues as they arise, make no
commitments or assumptions about what's the right thing to do because time
changes plans? (investigative)
a. □
b. ■
18. You're the Tatar prince
reading Jadwiga’s,
desperate letter. Is your reply to Jadwiga more likely to be
a. one brief, concise, and to the point letter (rational) or
b. one sociable, friendly, empathetic and time-consuming letter? (enthusiastic)
a. □
b. ■
19. You're the Tatar prince and
music prodigy, Zabeyko, adopted and re-named by Belarus step-parents. You’re
contemplating who wants more to replace you with a local noble. You make a list
of
a. the pros and cons of each person close to you (rational) or
b. varied comments from friends and relatives on what they say behind your back
regarding how your influence them and what they want from you. (enthusiastic)
a. □
b. ■
20. You're the scribe trying to
solve Zabeyko's murder in Vienna when he was supposed to be studying music in
Venice. Would you rather investigate
a. the tried and true facts about Jagello (down-to-earth) or
b. want to see what's in the overall picture before you fill in the clues?
(verve)
a. □
b. ■
21. You’re a scribe painting
Zabeyko's tomb shortly after his demise and you
a. seldom make errors of detail when looking for clues such as taking notice of
Jagello’s wedding present to the young, healthy Jadwiga--her freshly inscribed
coffin. (down-to-earth) or
b. prefer more innovative work like writing secret love poems to Jadwiga
disguised as prayers and watching for Zabeyko's ghost to escape through the
eight-inch square hole you cut in his headstone. (verve)
a. □
b. ■
22. As a scribe in 1812 Wolkowysk,
you become
a. tired when you work alone all day in a dimly torchlit room (outgoing) or
b. tired when Zabeyko interrupts your concentration on your work to demand that
you greet and entertain his guests all evening at banquets. (loner).
a. □
b. ■
23. When Jadwiga asks you as a
scribe to write love poems for her that she can send to Zabeyko, you
a. create the ideas for your poems by long discussions with her (outgoing) or
b. prefer to be alone when you reach deep down inside your spirit to listen to
what your soul entities tell you as the only resource for writing metaphors.
(loner)
a. □
b. ■
24. You travel to Venice and
Vienna investigating the death of Zabeyko and prefer to
a. question many different foreigners and locals at boisterous celebrations in
different languages (outgoing) or
b. disregard outside events and look inside the family history/genealogy
inscriptions for the culprit. (loner)
a. □
b. ■
25. Zabeyko, at age nine asks you
to develop ideas for him about how to act when writing music. You prefer to
develop ideas through
a. reflection, meditation, and prayer (loner) or
b. discussions and interviews among Zabeyko’s playmates on what makes Zabeyko
laugh. (outgoing)
a. □
b. ■
26. As a scribe you are
a. rarely cautious about the family position of those with whom you socialize as
long as they are kind, righteous people who do good deeds (outgoing) or
b. seeking one person with power to raise you from scribe to noble, if only the
richest noble in Wolkowysk would ask your advice. (loner)
a. ■
b. □
27. You are a designer and builder
of palaces. A rich noble asks you to carve a name for yourself on his palace
door that's a special representation of its builder. Would you
a. inscribe the word that means ‘remote’ (loner) or
b. choose a special name for yourself that means, “He who shares time easily
with many foreigners?” (outgoing)
a. □
b. ■
28. As an early 19th century scribe, do you work better when you
a. spend your day off daydreaming where no one can see you (loner) or
b. spend your free time training teams of apprentice scribes? (outgoing)
a. ■
b. □
29. If you discovered a new land,
would you build your cities upon
a. your wise elders’ principles as
they always have worked well before (traditional) or
b. unfamiliar cargo that traders
brought from afar? (change-driven)
a. □
b. ■
30. Do you depict your ruler’s
victories on a stone column exactly as
a. surviving witnesses from both
sides recounted the events (change-driven) or
b. only the ruler wants people to
see? (traditional)
a.□
b.■
31. If you’re self-motivated,
would you avoid learning from your overseer because
a. your overseer doesn’t keep up
with the times (change-driven) or
b. your overseer doesn’t let you
follow in your father’s footsteps? (traditional)
a. ■
b. □
32. Would you prefer to
a. train scribes because your
father taught you how to do it well (traditional) or
b. move quickly from one project
to another forever? (change-driven)
a. □
b. ■
33. Do you feel like an outsider
when
a. you think more about the future
than about current chores (change-driven) or
b. invaders replace your
forefathers’ familiar foods with unfamiliar cuisine? (traditional)
a.■
b.□
34. Do you quickly
a. solve problems for those inside
when you’re coming from outside (change-driven) or
b. refuse to spend your treasures
to develop new ideas that might fail? (traditional)
a. ■
b. □
35. Would you rather listen to and
learn from philosophers that
a. predict a future in which old
habits are replaced with new ones (change-driven) or
b. are only interested in
experiencing one day at a time? (traditional)
a. □
b. ■
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