“What’s your genre?”

1. “What’s your genre?”

2. Fold your paper in half, hot-dog style. You will record your answers on one side of the fold. We will use the other side at the end.

3. For each question, choose the answers that apply to you. Try to aim for the 3 or 4 best answers for you.

4. Questions before we start?

5. When with your friends, you like to: • Spy on your neighbors; help find missing neighborhood pets • Play role-playing games (Everquest, Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars, Warhammer) • Watch Modern Marvels, How It’s Made, or other shows about the newest gadgets • Sit around and talk about what’s going on in your lives; help friends with problems at home or with relationships • Talk on the phone; go shopping; gossip • Play football, basketball, baseball, or other sports • Visit museums, art galleries, battlefields/ historical sites • Watch scary movies, tell ghost stories, scare younger brothers and sisters • Watch Twilight, Vampire Diaries, or Angel over and over • Look for new places to explore; go camping, kayaking, white water rafting • Draw cartoons or read comics; you have attended or wish you could attend Comic-Con • Tell jokes, play practical jokes, or just generally goof off • Dance and sing Disney songs at the top of your lungs; watch fairy tale movies • Create useful things with Legos, gears, popsicle sticks, etc.

6. Which job do you like best for yourself: • Crime Scene Investigator; detective • Knight, sorcerer, seer, or princess • Artificial intelligence expert; physicist; time-traveler • Psychologist or psychiatrist; school guidance counselor • Own a dating service; wedding planner; cosmetologist; personal shopper • Sportscaster, athlete, or coach • Historian; history teacher; museum curator • Grave digger; funeral director; inventor of a new fake blood; direct horror movies • Ghost whisperer; vampire hunter • Storm chaser; pirate; international spy • Graphic designer; video game creator; ninja warrior • Comedian; clown; own a Spencer’s store • Singer or songwriter; storyteller; actor or actress • Inventor; computer repair; engineer

7. Which movie/TV shows do you like best: • CSI, Law and Order, Decoded, old episodes of Scooby Doo • Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia; Harry Potter movies • The Hunger Games; Transformers; Star Wars movies • My Sister’s Keeper; Bridge to Terabithia; Basketball Diaries • Pretty Little Liars; Enchanted; Legally Blonde • Remember the Titans; Gridiron Gang; Bad News Bears • Pawn Stars; WWII movies; The History Channel • Disturbia, Paranormal Activity; Scream • Twilight movies; True Blood series; Vampire Diaries • Journey to the Center of the Earth; Pirates of the Caribbean; Castaway; Survivorman • Naruto; Dragonball Z; Pokemon • Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies; Jeff Dunham; Family Guy • Once Upon A Time; Beastly; Grimm • How It’s Made; Prototype This; League of Extraordinary Gentleman; the new Hugo movie

8. You love movies or books that: • Have crimes, puzzles, or mysteries to solve • Have dragons, magic, elves, and evil forces • Take place in the future; have robots, cool gadgets; setting may be in outer space • Have real people with real problems—abuse, divorce, illness, death, gangs, drugs • Have a great love story • Have something to do with sports • Tell a story that took place sometime in history • Are gory; are so scary you sometimes lose sleep at night • Have vampires, werewolves, ghosts, or zombies • Have some sort of adventure or quest; lots of action! Have people who face harsh conditions—deserts, extreme cold, marooned on a deserted island, etc. • Have lots of pictures; violence doesn’t bother you • Make you laugh! • Have romance, castles, magic, or spin-off well-known stories • Have mechanical animals/people or genetically-mutated animals or people

9. Your friends/parents say you: • Are curious; you ask a lot of questions • Play too many role-playing games online • Are very inventive or are good at creating new things to make your life easier • Are a good listener; you are a shoulder to cry on • Are boy-crazy or girl-crazy; like to spend too much money • Are great at catching, pitching, or kicking a ball • Know a lot of useless facts (names, dates, etc) • Scare them sometimes • Are too obsessed with Twilight! • Are a dare-devil; are always looking for an adventure • Are practical and would be great at living in the woods • Are a class clown • Are a drama-queen; are always singing or dancing • Were born in the wrong time period

10. You would most like to meet: • Nancy Drew; Sherlock Holmes • A fairy, elf, dragon, or troll • An alien; a space shuttle pilot • Dr. Phil; Oprah Winfrey; Dr. Oz • Your true love, whoever that may be; • Tony Romo; Dirk Nowitski; Josh Hamilton • General George Patton; Florence Nightingale • A real, brain-oozing zombie • A vampire or werewolf • The Cast of Survivor; Sir Edmund Hillary (first to scale Mount Everest) • Trey Parker (creator of South Park) • Larry the Cable Guy; Chris Rock • Walt Disney; the cast of Glee • Thomas Edison; Charles Darwin; Alexander Graham Bell

11. Open your folded paper. On the same-side of the sheet (beside the fold), write the letters A-K down the side of your paper like this: A. B. C. D. E. F. G. (etc.)

12. Write how many of each answer you put beside each letter: • 1 • 5 • 3 • 1 • 0 • 1 • 2 (etc.)

13. Circle the three letters that have the highest numbers. (Some may have the same number)

14. The circled letters are your top three genres based on this quiz! (Of course, you are always free to choose from any genre you wish!)

15. Mystery (red) • Fantasy (purple) or Mythology (red/white stripe) • Science fiction (white) • Realistic fiction (blue) • Romance/chick lit (hot pink) • Sports (orange) • Historical fiction (yellow) or biography (B) • Horror (black) • Paranormal (lime green) • Action-Adventure (Survival/pirates/spies) (dark green) • Manga/graphic novels (black/white stripe) • Humor (blue/white stripe) • Fairy tales (green/white stripe) • Steampunk (in the science fiction section) (white)