What “Been arrested?” means
Item 91 on the 100-question Rice Purity Test reads “Been arrested?”. Here is what the wording covers, where readers reasonably disagree about it, and exactly how much it moves your score.
Guidance written and reviewed 2026-07-26
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What the question is asking
Item 91 asks whether you have been arrested. It opens the police run at 91 to 95, and it is worth noting that the checklist orders these items by seriousness rather than by chronology — being questioned, at item 94, usually comes first in real life.
Where people disagree about what counts
Being arrested is a specific legal event: being taken into custody. Being stopped, searched, or spoken to by an officer is not an arrest, and that distinction is where most misreading of this item happens. Item 94 covers the lesser case.
The test is self-scored and nobody else ever sees your answer, so the only thing that matters is applying one reading consistently across the whole checklist.
How item 91 fits with the items around it
Items 91 to 93 are a clean escalation — arrested, convicted, imprisoned — and 94 and 95 then cover lesser and adjacent police contact. The five items together make the legal category the second-longest run on the checklist.
How it affects the score
Every question has the same one-point effect. Checking item 91 subtracts one point from the starting score of 100. Leaving it unchecked subtracts nothing, and no item on the checklist is weighted more heavily than any other.
Final score = 100 − total checked boxes
The final number never identifies this answer or any other individual answer — it is a count, so it discards which items were selected the moment it is calculated. Read the full scoring guide or look up an exact result on the 0–100 score chart.
Questions about item 91
Does being stopped by police count as an arrest?
Does an arrest that led to nothing still count?
How are items 91 to 93 ordered?
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