Enneagram Test Enneagram Centers of Intelligence 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: How does Type 9, the center type of the Body triad, typically relate to anger?
- Expresses anger openly and assertively
- Redirects anger into perfectionism and criticism
- Goes to sleep to anger by numbing out and merging with others (Correct answer)
- Uses anger to drive intellectual analysis
Correct answer: Goes to sleep to anger by numbing out and merging with others
Type 9 is the center type of the Body triad and is most disconnected from anger, tending to suppress it and 'fall asleep' to their own needs and drives.
Question 2: Which Head Center type is sometimes described as 'looking outward' for certainty and support to manage anxiety?
- Type 5
- Type 6 (Correct answer)
- Type 7
- Type 4
Correct answer: Type 6
Type 6 looks outward for authority, guidance, and certainty, forming alliances and testing trustworthiness to manage its core anxiety and doubt.
Question 3: Type 7's strategy for managing anxiety in the Head Center is best described as:
- Withdrawing inward to accumulate knowledge
- Looking outward for guidance and reassurance
- Looking forward to positive possibilities and planning exciting futures (Correct answer)
- Suppressing anxiety through perfectionism
Correct answer: Looking forward to positive possibilities and planning exciting futures
Type 7 manages anxiety by moving toward exciting future plans and positive possibilities, using the mind to generate options that promise happiness and escape from pain.
Question 4: Type 2 is in the Heart Center. How does it typically relate to shame?
- Feels shame openly and expresses emotional neediness
- Denies its own needs and focuses on meeting others' needs to feel valued (Correct answer)
- Withdraws and creates a unique identity to feel special
- Masks shame with achievement and a successful image
Correct answer: Denies its own needs and focuses on meeting others' needs to feel valued
Type 2 manages shame by focusing attention on others' needs and being indispensable, avoiding awareness of its own shame about having needs.
Question 5: Which Heart Center type most overtly feels and expresses its emotional pain and shame?
- Type 2
- Type 3
- Type 4 (Correct answer)
- Type 5
Correct answer: Type 4
Type 4 is most identified with its emotions and shame, expressing feelings of deficiency and longing, making it the type in the Heart Center that most openly experiences its core emotion.
Question 6: The Body Center is sometimes called which triad due to its focus on instinctual response?
- Feeling Triad
- Thinking Triad
- Instinctive Triad (Correct answer)
- Reactive Triad
Correct answer: Instinctive Triad
The Body/Gut Center is often called the Instinctive Triad because types 8, 9, and 1 rely on gut reactions and physical instincts as their primary mode of knowing.
Enneagram Test Enneagram Centers of Intelligence 2
How does Type 9, the center type of the Body triad, typically relate to anger?