How do you feel after having told a lie

Both are correct.

How do you feel after having told a lie?"
He got caught in the act.

"How do you feel after telling a lie?"
A rhetorical question.

I think the person asking this question probably expects an answer; if so, it's not a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question.

Thanks a lot, AS.

Could I ask why "How do you feel after telling a lie?" is a rhetorical question? If someone asked you the question, wouldn't you say anything?

HUBLOTIf someone asked you the question, wouldn't you say anything?..

If I said something, I would be admitting that I told a lie.

In the extract in the first post, some questions for teachers to ask their students were suggested. They were intended as a way to elicit responses. They were not rhetorical questions.

Thanks a lot, AS and fivejedjon.

I'm still confused as to the difference in meaning between How do you feel after having told a lie?" and "How do you feel after telling a lie?".

HUBLOTI'm still confused as to the difference in meaning between..

Hi, is the above correct? Thanks.

5jj is right; I misused the word rhetorical in this case.
I meant "hypothetical."

AnonymousHi, is the above correct? Thanks.

Yes.