Two weeks before your departure, you lose your job. We were wondering the same thing after we read it on another personal-finance site. The quiz aims, it seems, to gauge your capacity for terror rather than the common hazards of investing. You can't handle risk. Risk is a fact of life for any investor.
Stock markets plunge.
Companies go bankrupt. And there are countless other little ways to lose money much less dramatically. To earn the highest rewards, you have to assume a certain amount of risk. To minimize your exposure to the perils of investing, you have to accept lower returns. But the truth is, you can probably handle a lot more risk than you think.