Quiz created: 201127

Six Ways People Fail

Instructions: Answer the multiple choice questions, guessing if necessary; then click on the "Process Questions" button at the end of the quiz to see your score in the adjacent message box. The program will not reveal which questions you got wrong, only how many points you have. Go back and change your answers until you get them all right. (The message box will rejoice at that point and the page will change color to show it is tickled pink.)

Points to note: (1) Questions with only one possible answer are one point each. (2) Questions with one or more possible answers (represented by check boxes) give a point for each correct answer, but also subtract a point for each wrong answer! (3) The program will not attempt to score your efforts at all if you have not tried at least half of the questions. (4) This quiz is for your own use only. No record of your progress is kept or reported to anyone.

In a famous passage in the Analects Confucius explains that a virtue, pursued mindlessly, “without love of learning,” can lead to bad results. He gives six much quoted examples, but he seems to provide no logic (that I can see) to connect a given excess with a specific result. The following list has been randomized. Can you restore the original associations? If so, you will immediately get them all right, proving me wrong (unless, like a traditionally trained Confucian, you memorized the passage in school).
1. Love of being benevolent (rén 仁) without the love of learning leads to
dissipation of mind (dàng 荡) [i.e., lack of principle] 
extravagant conduct [i.e., recklessness] (kuáng 狂) 
foolish simplicity (yú 愚) 
injurious disregard of consequences (zéi 贼) 
insubordination (luàn 乱) 
rudeness (jiǎo 绞) 
No Answer
2. Love of knowing (zhī 知) without the love of learning leads to
dissipation of mind (dàng 荡) [i.e., lack of principle] 
extravagant conduct [i.e., recklessness] (kuáng 狂) 
foolish simplicity (yú 愚) 
injurious disregard of consequences (zéi 贼) 
insubordination (luàn 乱) 
rudeness (jiǎo 绞) 
No Answer
3. Love of being sincere (xìn 信) [i.e., rigidly keeping promises] without the love of learning leads to
dissipation of mind (dàng 荡) [i.e., lack of principle] 
extravagant conduct [i.e., recklessness] (kuáng 狂) 
foolish simplicity (yú 愚) 
injurious disregard of consequences (zéi 贼) 
insubordination (luàn 乱) 
rudeness (jiǎo 绞) 
No Answer
4. Love of straightforwardness (zhí 直 ) without the love of learning leads to
dissipation of mind (dàng 荡) [i.e., lack of principle] 
extravagant conduct [i.e., recklessness] (kuáng 狂) 
foolish simplicity (yú 愚) 
injurious disregard of consequences (zéi 贼) 
insubordination (luàn 乱) 
rudeness (jiǎo 绞) 
No Answer
5. Love of boldness yǒng 勇 without the love of learning — the beclouding here leads to
dissipation of mind (dàng 荡) [i.e., lack of principle] 
extravagant conduct [i.e., recklessness] (kuáng 狂) 
foolish simplicity (yú 愚) 
injurious disregard of consequences (zéi 贼) 
insubordination (luàn 乱) 
rudeness (jiǎo 绞) 
No Answer
6. Love of firmness (gāng 刚) without the love of learning leads to
dissipation of mind (dàng 荡) [i.e., lack of principle] 
extravagant conduct [i.e., recklessness] (kuáng 狂) 
foolish simplicity (yú 愚) 
injurious disregard of consequences (zéi 贼) 
insubordination (luàn 乱) 
rudeness (jiǎo 绞) 
No Answer

      Points out of 6:


Awesomeness
Score
Awesomeness Score: The following awesomeness score is a measure of how much guessing you did to get all items right. It is 100 if you got all questions right when you clicked the process button for the first time. It gets proportionately lower if it took more clicks, until it hits 0 if your clicks exceeded the number of questions.



Return to top.

This consummately cool, pedagogically compelling, self-correcting,
multiple-choice quiz was produced automatically from
a simple text file of questions using D.K. Jordan's
dubiously original, but publicly accessible
Think Again Quiz Maker
of March 24, 2015.