The grit test is a project for my Mom's birthday based on a New York Time's article that she sent me. The article can be found here NYTimes:What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? and the test that this html file is based of can be found at http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/17-item%20Grit%20and%20Ambition.040709.pdf