East of Eden Test

The East of Eden Test is inspired by psychometric methodology and based on research into the characters of the TV series. The test provides feedback such as the following:

Cathy Ames

Your Janus-faced charm is one of your greatest assets: you can appear sweet, demure, and entirely harmless to anyone who needs you to be, and you rarely show your hand until the game is over. You have an excellent head for business, particularly in the hospitality trade, and a talent for knowing exactly what people want and what they would pay to keep quiet about it. Sentimentality is not your strong suit, and you have never been one to look back at a house once you have left it. On the flip side, people tend to find you rather frightening. Nevertheless, you would sooner be feared than owned, and you have never pretended otherwise.

Aron Trask

Like many idealists, you see the world as it ought to be rather than as it is, and you are happiest when life matches the picture. You are kind, handsome, earnest, and well liked, and you have seriously considered the ministry as a career. You keep high standards for yourself and for those you love, which makes you a devoted partner, if a slightly exhausting one. However, you have little patience for unpleasant truths, especially about your own family, and you are apt to enlist in something drastic rather than sit with them. Even so, your faith in goodness is touching, and few people can resist liking you.

Cal Trask

Although you have often been told you take after the wrong side of the family, you have a sharp eye for human weakness and an even sharper one for opportunity. You understand that a war creates demand, and you are perfectly willing to turn a profit if it means making someone proud. You are curious about the parts of your history that others would rather keep hidden, and you are rarely shy about following a lead to an unsavory address. However, when your love is rejected, you can wound people in ways you will regret for years. Even so, you never stop trying to earn your place, which is more than most people can say.

Charles Trask

Like a true workhorse, you believe that a day without blisters is a day wasted, and you would sooner clear a field than sit through a dinner party. You are blunt, practical, and deeply suspicious of anyone who smiles too easily, and your instincts about such people are usually right. You are also better with money than anyone gives you credit for, quietly putting away a small fortune while others assume you are simply a farmer. However, your jealousy runs deep, and your temper has a habit of leaving marks. In the end, you are fiercely loyal to your family, even when you are furious with them.

Lee

Although you are often the one serving dinner, you are quite clearly the most interesting person at the table. You are a patient cook, a devoted guardian, and an excellent listener, and you know that people speak most freely in front of those they assume are not paying attention. Philosophy, family, and the well-being of everyone under your roof occupy most of your thoughts. However, you have put the needs of others ahead of your own for so long that your own life has started to feel like a rumor. Even so, when a family is about to make an unforgivable mistake, you are the one with the courage to step in and say so.

Adam Trask

Perhaps due to a rather difficult childhood, you have spent much of your life searching for a garden of your own, and when you find a promising piece of land, you are prepared to pay whatever it costs. You are gentle, generous, and almost entirely without suspicion, which makes you a delight to know and remarkably easy to fool. You have worn a uniform, but you never had much taste for conflict. However, when heartbreak arrives, you tend to retreat so far into yourself that others must name your children for you. Even so, your capacity for forgiveness, once it finally comes, is enormous.

Abra Bacon

While others may see you as the picture of sweetness and good breeding, you are far more down-to-earth than your admirers would like to believe. You are honest in relationships, you ask direct questions, and you have little patience for being worshipped when you would much rather be understood. You are also wise enough to notice that the well-behaved suitor is not always the better match. However, family scandals weigh on you, and you sometimes fear that other people's mistakes run in your blood. Nevertheless, you have a rare gift for choosing reality over romance, and for loving it anyway.

Samuel Hamilton

With a head full of ideas, you have a solution for nearly every problem except the one of how to get paid for it. You are good with your hands, forging, drilling, and tinkering long into the night, and better still with people, who seem to arrive at your kitchen table whenever they need a story or a hard truth. You are deeply fond of your large family, even if keeping them fed takes considerable ingenuity. However, you are better at spotting other people's sorrows than admitting your own, and you know more about endings than you let on. In the end, your laughter is the thing people remember about you most.