🜁 Four Temperaments Test (Medieval Humours Quiz)

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📘 About the Temperament Test

For over 1,500 years European medicine taught that the body holds four humours — blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm — and that the dominant one shapes your temperament: sanguine, choleric, melancholic or phlegmatic.

Answer ten quick questions to find your main temperament and the one behind it, with the humour, element, season and planet medieval scholars linked to it.

✏️ Worked example

Mostly sociable answers

You enter
1. When you meet new people you…chat easily and enjoy it
2. Faced with a problem you…act at once
3. Friends would call you…fun and lively
4. Your mood is usually…thoughtful, sometimes gloomy
5. At work you prefer to…work with people and new ideas
6. Your ideal weekend…rest at home with family
7. When criticised you…laugh it off
8. Your biggest weakness…impatience
You get
Your temperamentSanguine (with choleric traits)
CharacterCheerful, sociable, optimistic and talkative; quick to start, slow to finish
HumourBlood — hot & moist
Element, season & planetAir · Spring · Jupiter

Sanguine (with choleric traits).

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❓ Frequently asked questions

What are the four temperaments?

Sanguine (cheerful, sociable), choleric (driven, quick-tempered), melancholic (thoughtful, prone to worry) and phlegmatic (calm, steady).

Where do the four temperaments come from?

From Hippocrates' four humours, developed by Galen and used in medieval and Renaissance medicine.

Can I be two temperaments?

Yes — most people show a main temperament with a second one behind it.

Is this scientific?

No. Astrology has no scientific support; these tools reproduce historical medieval methods for interest and entertainment.

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