How Innocent Are You Quiz

How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Never
- Tried it briefly
- Used it occasionally
- Used it regularly
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Not sure
- Agree
- Never
- Once
- 3 times
- 4+ times
How Innocent Are You Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
Readers who want to compare their responses across the displayed dimensions can use the How Innocent Are You Quiz as a structured way to organize personal experience. It is intended for people seeking a descriptive profile rather than a moral judgment. This innocence quiz presents separate views of overall innocence, romantic and dating experience, and rule-breaking exposure. The result offers a snapshot when answers resist an innocent-versus-experienced label.
What This Assessment Explores
Here, the purity quiz treats innocence as reported purity, not character. Higher scores reflect fewer or less intense relevant experiences; lower scores reflect more numerous or more adventurous experiences. Items span romance, dating, parties, substances, secrecy, authority, mischief, and rules.
The dimensions are:
- Innocence Score (0-100) estimates overall purity; More Experienced 0-33, Moderately Experienced 34-66, More Innocent 67-100.
- Romance & Dating Experience (0-20) measures level and breadth of romantic interest and dating behavior; higher scores indicate broader or more advanced experience; lower scores indicate limited or no experience; Limited 0-6, Moderate 7-13, Extensive 14-20.
- Rule-Breaking Experience (0-20) measures exposure to bending or breaking rules; higher scores indicate more frequent or significant exposure; lower scores indicate fewer experiences; Low exposure 0-6, Moderate exposure 7-13, High exposure 14-20.
These dimensions help readers compare responses with personal experience.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Responses mix frequency choices such as never, once, occasionally, or often with agreement options from strong disagreement to agreement. Some items describe never having done something, while others ask directly about an experience, so the questionnaire uses differently worded items.
The displayed dimensions summarize these answers, but the questionnaire’s score description provides no item-by-item mapping. The listed ranges and bands are the interpretation framework; the number of points assigned to any response cannot be inferred.
The item style and checklist format are conceptually consistent with the 1988 Rice Purity Test, an earlier self-report checklist of romantic, social, and rule-related experiences. The questionnaire is an online self-report tool, not a standardized adaptation of that checklist, so the resemblance does not establish shared scoring or norms.
As a self-report tool, this innocence test summarizes self-reported experience through an overall estimate and separate views of romantic and dating behavior and rule-breaking exposure. Memory, privacy concerns, current circumstances, and impression management can affect answers. The bands describe this questionnaire’s categories, not clinical thresholds or population norms, so the profile remains a context-dependent snapshot.
- The Rice Thresher. “The New and Improved 1988 Rice Trasher Purity Test.” Vol. 75, no. 24.5, April 1, 1988, p. 8.
- Dundes, Alan, and Carl R. Pagter. Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. American Folklore Society Memoir Series, vol. 62. Austin: American Folklore Society, 1975.
- Rice University. Purity Test, 1990s. Rice PRIDE Records, UA 0326, Box 1, Folder 13. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
- Burns, Thomas A. Review of Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire, by Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter. The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 90, no. 355, 1977, pp. 84-86. 10.2307/539028
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