Personality Traits and Attitudes

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Choose the answer that is the best response for each question below.
41. Which of the following traits is most desirable in a roommate?
a. bumptious
b. personable
c. pretentious
d. puerile

42. Which of the following traits is least desirable in a roommate?
a. diffident
b. gregarious
c. sanguine
d. surly

43. Which kind of person would most likely make the best waiter?
a. someone who is blithe
b. someone who is overweening
c. someone who is perfidious
d. someone who is punctilious

44. Which kind of person would most likely make the best spy?
a. someone who is capricious
b. someone who is craven
c. someone who is perfidious
d. someone who is sagacious

45. Which kind of person would most likely make the best judge?
a. someone who is diffident
b. someone who is sagacious
c. someone who is sanguine
d. someone who is saturnine

46. Which kind of person would most likely make the best security
guard?
a. someone who is bumptious
b. someone who is circumspect
c. someone who is gregarious
d. someone who is perfidious

47. Which kind of person would most likely be the best companion
when you are feeling sad?
a. someone who is bumptious
b. someone who is irascible
c. someone who is puerile
d. someone who is sanguine

48. Which character trait would you least like to see in a soldier?
a. craven
b. overweening
c. pretentious
d. surly

49. Which character trait would you least like to see in a judge?
a. capricious
b. circumspect
c. personable
d. punctilious

50. Which character trait would you least like to see in a supervisor?
a. blithe
b. bumptious
c. overweening
d. petulant
For the following questions, choose the person who would most likely
have the characteristic or attitude .

51. blithe
a. a soldier in combat
b. a young child in a playground
c. the mother of a very sick child
d. a surgeon during an operation

52. petulant
a. someone who throws a tantrum because his or her soup was not
warm enough
b. someone who is going on an important job interview
c. someone who needs to earn a little extra money
d. someone who doesn’t like being with other people

53. puerile
a. an infant
b. a ten year old who has never been given responsibility
c. a thirty-four year old with too much responsibility
d. an elderly woman

54. irascible
a. someone who just found out he has a rare disease
b. someone who just inherited a farm with 200 acres
c. someone who has just bumped into an old acquaintance, whom
she would rather not have seen, from high school
d. someone waiting for his airplane to take off, only to be told four
hours later that his flight has been canceled and his luggage has
been lost

55. saturnine
a. someone who just won the lottery
b. someone who has just fallen in love
c. someone who has just had a loved one end a relationship
d. someone who is sleeping

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Answers
41. b. Personable means pleasing in appearance or manner; this is a
desirable quality in a roommate.
42. d. Surly means bad-tempered or unfriendly in a way that suggests
menace; this is a very undesirable quality in a roommate.
43. d. A punctilious person is conscientious and precise, and pays great
attention to details, especially in matters of etiquette.
44. c. A perfidious person is treacherous and dishonest.
45. b. A sagacious person shows good judgment and is wise.
46. b. A circumspect person is cautious and watchful.
47. d. A sanguine person is cheerful and optimistic.
48. a. Craven means cowardly.
49. a. Capricious means impulsive and unpredictable; a judge should be
consistent in interpreting and applying the law.
50. c. An overweening supervisor would be presumptuously arrogant
and overbearing.
51. b. Blithe means light-hearted and carefree. Only a young child in a
playground is likely to be blithe.
52. a. Someone who throws a tantrum because his or her soup was not
warm enough is likely to be petulant; unreasonably or easily
irritated.
53. b. A ten year old who has never been given responsibility is likely
to be puerile; childish and immature.
54. d. Someone who has been waiting hours for a flight that is
eventually canceled and whose luggage is lost is likely to be
irascible; irritable and hot-tempered.
55. c. Saturnine means gloomy and sullen. Choice c is the only choice
that presents circumstances that would cause someone to be
gloomy.

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I liked most of the fourties you mentioned Thank you, madam