APPENDIX-A

INSTRUCTIONS: Here are some situations of daily life, with options of different
responses to the situations given after each of them. Select the option that suits you the most,
by ticking it. There are no rights or wrong answers. Do not think over one question too much.
The first response that comes to your mind is desired. Do not leave any question unanswered.

1. Your best friend confides in you about his / her homosexuality and that he / she
is in love. Your friend wants your help in taking the next step. You tell your
friend that –

a. You are fully in support and will help him / her in any way you can.
b. You understand his / her feelings but can’t support him / her as you would not
like to be that involved in this matter.
c. You minimize your interaction with that person.
d. You suggest some kind of counselling or treatment for your friend’s condition
and that of his / her partner.

2. Your sibling wants to move in with her / his boyfriend / girlfriend (and live
together) before marriage. Your family doesn’t support this. However, you love
your family and sibling dearly. You would –

a. Support your family and question your sibling for her / his choice.
b. You try to persuade your sibling to change her / his mind for the sake of your
family.
c. You try to convince your family to change their opinions about your sibling’s
choices.
d. You support your sibling regardless of anyone else’s opinion.

3. There is a “leper, beggar” woman in your neighborhood. She is with a month old
baby. To gain sympathy for money, she throws her child on the floor repeatedly
to hurt him and make him cry louder. You would –

a. Call the police on her and have her arrested, and the child given away to child
protection services.
b. Call some ngos and such institutes to take the mother and child into care.
c. Leave the mother there and have the child taken into care.
d. You would walk away feeling very bad, angry and helpless.

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4. Your child is 16 years old and has stolen something very important and
expensive belonging to a crooked shopkeeper. Returning it will surely get your
child into a lot of unwanted and unavoidable trouble. You would –

a. Let it go as if nothing has happened. It’s not wrong and the crooked
shopkeeper probably deserved it.
b. You reprimand and punish your child and have her / him give you the stolen
object to throw away.
c. You anonymously parcel it back to the shopkeeper with a sorry note.
d. You take your child back to the crooked shopkeeper to apologize and return
the stolen object.

5. You have seen an accident happen on the road. The cars are severely damaged
and people have been injured. You know exactly what happened. However, one
of the people involved is an ex-convict. You would –

a. Approach the police and inform them with everything you know, at whatever
risks
b. You confide in a confidante and take her / him with you for giving
information (in any which way you choose)
c. You make an anonymous call, give the information to the police and
immediately hang up.
d. You deny knowing anything or even being there.

6. You had lied to your boss about your mother’s illness to get a leave from work.
You are out with your friends instead and someone from office sees and
recognized you. You suspect that he might tell your boss. What do you do?

a. You go up to your boss the next day and simply confess hoping he’ll forgive it
as a one time mistake
b. You go up to the person from office who saw you and explain the situation to
him and hope that he complies, doesn’t tell your boss or blackmail you.
c. You wait to see if your boss finds out and then confess.
d. You wait to see if your boss calls you on it and then lie again to cover it all up.
For e.g., you were out with your friends looking for your mother’s medicines.

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7. You are a free lance journalist who has uncovered a human trafficking racket
involving many political leaders. The editor you approach wants to run the story
but fears life threatening consequences for both of you. So he asks you to make
some changes before publishing it. What would you do?

a. You agree to make the necessary changes and run the story.
b. You want your story published in its true form and so take your story
elsewhere.
c. You now worry for your safety and avoid publishing at all.
d. You anonymously send out your story to various media and hope that no one
will trace it back to you while still publishing it in its true form.

8. You are an important member of a theatre group. You are going to be a part of
an upcoming theatre festival. You unexpectedly get an attractive but
independent offer to be a part of another production at the same time as your
current group’s performance. Your current team supports your choice,
whatever it may be. What would you do?

a. You take the independent attractive offer.

b. You stay committed to your current group.
c. You stay with your current group for this particular festival and hope that you
can take up the attractive offer after the current festival is over.
d. You take up the independent project but find a replacement for yourself in
your current group and train him fully.

9. A 1000 trees are being cut from your locality to develop an opulent religious
institution. What do you do?

a. You start a protest against the cutting of the trees irrespective of reason saying
that other commercial properties should be used for this reason.
b. You are upset but let it go as it is for a good reason.
c. You protest asking for uprooting and replanting of the trees as compensation.
d. You do not concern yourself with such matters.

10. You are assigned to work for a presentation in a group which will be assessed for
the term. You are most likely to –

a. Make sure you actively participate to give your contribution.

b. Let only others give their contribution.
c. Contribute when members start to push you.
d. Contribute whenever you can.

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11. You go to buy stationery. When you are already on your way back, you realize
that shopkeeper returned you more change than he owed you. However, the
shopkeeper has been known to cheat people out of money in the past. You are
most likely to –

a. Be happy, he must have deserved it in someway.

b. You are already on your way back, so you think you’d return him the extra
money next time you go.
c. You go back to the shop to give extra money.
d. You give the extra money to beggar thinking at least you haven’t kept the
extra money with you.

12. You are lecturer, you feel students lose attention in your classes. You are most
likely to –

a. Think that’s how students are these days, not interested in studies.
b. Attempt to reassess teaching strategy to engage them.
c. Just take attendance and let them go.
d. Just continue to take lectures as you used to, with as many attentive.

13. You have been asked to read a text for next lecture for class discussion. You are
most likely to –

a. Make it a point to read it and go for the class.

b. Think at least someone from the class would have read it.
c. Think if you’d get time, you’ll try reading it.
d. Won’t give it any thought.

14. Your mother wants you to run an errand for a huge gathering at home. But you
have just reached home tired from college. You are most likely to –

a. Not do it, you are just too tired.

b. Agree to do it, and later bully your sibling into doing it.
c. Ask her to give you sometime, and then do it for her.
d. You go right away to do it.

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15. You have taken the opportunity to make an important presentation on behalf of
your organization which is going to have an effect on your organization and
career path. The timing collides with a sudden important event in your family
which also requires your attention. What will you do?

a. You will not allow any time to your family till the presentation is over.
b. You will request for another presentation/postponement of date, to help your
family.
c. Due to the mounting pressure, you excuse yourself from both the events.
d. You will divide the responsibility in both events to other people and reduce
your involvement in both.

16. You come to know that you are to do the prestigious task of editing of the annual
magazine of your college in just 3 days.

a. You will rely on the preliminary work that has been done.
b. You will make sure to do all the editing.
c. You will not bother much about it as its just a matter of one year and people
will not remember it after that.
d. You will take the help of your juniors although you know that they will not be
able to perform the job as articulately as yourself.

17. Your cousin’s marriage has been fixed. Your uncle/aunt are old people and you
are the only person to take full responsibility of the arrangements required for
the client.

a. You will assign the responsibility to marriage agencies though they won’t be
as perfect as you.
b. You will ask other relatives to help you out
c. You will take time off from your job and make the necessary arrangements
d. You can do as much as you can in the time you can fetch without much effort.

18. Your child has to submit a craft project. He/ she really needs your help.
However, you are busy with other unavoidable responsibilities of your job and
household. What will you do?

a. You will let the child do what he/she can providing him/her with some
direction.
b. You will hope he/she manages as you really cannot find the time
c. You will ask his tutor to help him out.
d. You will help him to do the project properly.

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19. Your best friend in office has lost an important file. It is to be found or replaced
in 24 hours to avoid severe negative consequences. Your involvement can have
negative consequences for you too. What will you do?

a. You will help him find the file by searching every possible place
anyhow.
b. Let him solve his own problem.
c. Help him to prepare the report once again.
d. Gather all the data which will assist him somewhat with the report.

20. You and your 6 other friends share a cab to college and come from a distant
place. One day you are feeling a little dizzy and want to go back home. Your
friends are still not through with their classes, and still have about one hour to
go. You want to take the cab home but that would mean your friends would have
to come in public transport under uncomfortable conditions. What will you do?

a. Take the cab back home alone, since you are unwell and its justified for that
day.
b. Wait for your friends because you cannot let them travel in discomfort
because of you.
c. Send the cab back ahead to your friends, while you yourself take a public
transport home.
d. Take the cab without telling them, and apologize later citing reasons of your
unbearable condition.

21. An acquaintance from your college goes to meet her/his boyfriend/girlfriend and
tells his /her parents and that he/ she is with you. You are apprehensive about
the plan but agree nevertheless. She requests you to cover up in case if the
parents call up to check on her. Your friend’s parents call up. What will you do?

a. Tell them the truth

b. Don’t tell them about with whom your friend is but do say that he/she is not
with you
c. Cover up for your friend under any circumstance
d. Call up the parents and tell them everything yourself since you don’t want to
be caught up in a mess later

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22. You are the youngest lecturer in a prestigious educational institute. You find
out that one of your colleagues is publishing the work of his/her students in
his/her own name i.e. plagiarizing the student’s work. This colleague is very
resourceful and influential and reporting about him/her can even cost you your
job. What will you do?

a. Report nevertheless to the authorities

b. Do nothing about it as you don’t want to lose your job
c. Convey your displeasure indirectly like by mentioning in front of him how
you despise those professors who steal others’ work and you will report if you
ever find about such a case
d. Convey to the concerned student about the plagiarism of his/her work

23. You recently got married. Few weeks into the marriage and you realize that
your spouse is not mentally fit, and shows abnormal behavior. At the same time
you find that he/she has developed emotional dependence on you. You find
yourself stuck. What will you do?

a. Leave him or her immediately, regardless of the dependence

b. Stay with your spouse since you feel that he/she is your responsibility and
make active efforts to help him/her and get professional help
c. Continue living as the divorce is unacceptable but live a distant life while
fulfilling all your needs from external sources.
d. You separate legally from the person but continue to provide emotional
support and whatever other help you can comfortably provide

24. You have been assigned the responsibility to execute a tender of your company.
One of the applying parties offers you a hefty amount to pass it in their favor.
What will you do?

a. Take the money and pas it in their favour

b. Complain to the relevant authorities and disqualify it
c. Ignore it, and proceed as decided
d. Give the responsibility of filing the tender to someone else

25. As a senior year student of your college you have been assigned the
responsibility of framing the question paper of the junior year for one term.
Some of the juniors who are also your friends come to know about this and
approach you for some “help.” What will you do?

a. Immediately refuse for any kind of help.

b. Tell them to come later and avoid them after that.
c. Give them a brief idea about the topics being covered without telling
the questions.
d. Give them the entire question paper, as you don’t want to lose face.

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26. You bought some items from the super market, and while handling out the cash,
you notice that the cashier accidentally gives extra change. What are you likely
to do?

a. Keep the extra change.

b. Face the temptation of keeping it but ultimately decide to return.
c. Wait for the cashier to notice his mistake, if doesn’t then its your
luck and his fault.
d. Immediately point out the error to the cashier and return the extra
amount

27. You have been given the responsibility to organize an important event for your
company. Just on the day before the event you come down with a bad case of
food poisoning. The execution of the event depends on you. What will you do?

a. You will immediately back out.

b. You will delegate most of the tasks to your subordinates and take a leave.
c. You will take medication and report to work nevertheless.
d. You’ll report to work, but keep on reminding everyone about your condition.

28. An anti-smoking ban has been recently enforced in your country. You are a
chain smoker, and now because of the ban you are not allowed to smoke in
public places. What will you do?

a. Smoke wherever you like, ban isn’t likely to bother you.

b. Smoke when no one is looking.
c. Try to smoke at places where it is allowed, but still smoke in non-smoking
areas if the urge is irresistible.
d. Smoke indoors only, where it is not likely to affect anyone else.

29. You are stuck in a riot- stricken area. You belong to one of the fighting
communities. While trying to save your own life you see a family from the other
community stuck in a fatal situation, trapped. Saving them might invite the
anger of your people. What will you do?

a. You run for your own life ignoring the situation

b. You hope someone else will see and save them and continue with your escape
c. You immediately rush to the situation and try to rescue them
d. You report to the police, unload the responsibility on to them hoping that they
will do something about it

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 30. Your friend lent you her book, but you somehow lose it. You feel guilty. What
will you do?

a. Keep mum about it, till your friend asks

b. Deny ever having taken the book
c. Get another copy of the book and give it to him/her and never tell him/her
about the loss of the book.
d. Apologize to your friend about the loss of the book, and get him/her another
copy of the same.

31. You are a successful businessman. However, your partner repeatedly takes
holidays and leaves you with a lot of work which is logically impossible to
complete in the given time frame. Talking to your partner does not seem
feasible. What would you do?

a. You break up your partnership.

b. You pass on the load to your juniors.
c. You make excuses of sickness and evade the situation.
d. You do the work without complaint.

32. You are newly married. You discover that despite being told to do so repeatedly
by many people, your spouse does not bathe for days together and does not
maintain even basic hygiene. You would –

a. Leave / divorce your spouse.

b. Try to talk sense into him and take him to a marriage counselor.
c. Come to a compromise like asking him to bathe at least on alternate days.
d. Give him a taste of his own medicine and not bathe yourself along with him.

33. Your newly married life is sexually unsatisfying as your partner / spouse is
uninterested and additionally, even unwilling to talk about it. You would –

a. Leave / divorce your spouse.

b. Have an extra marital affair to satisfy your physical needs.
c. Force marriage counselling on your spouse.
d. Remain quiet about it.

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34. You are extremely well off financially and have lived a very comfortable and
effortless life. Now you are sent to a far away land for your under graduation.
Your parents don’t give you any allowance for yourself and ask you to work for
it and earn for yourself. You are shocked and feel helpless in a foreign land,
already pressured by academics. You would –

a. Quit college and come back to your home town to your previous comfortable
life and enroll into a local but equally good educational institution.
b. Start telling your friends over there about your problem and gaining their
sympathy and money for all activities for as long as possible.
c. Start focusing very little on academics and try to earn as much as possible
through a good / higher profiled job.
d. Start a part time job enough to let you study all you need and give you enough
money for basic requirements and just a little more for saving / splurging.

35. You have an attractive girlfriend / boyfriend. You notice that she / he flirts a
little and gets enough provocation to do so as well. However, you two are great
as a couple. You –

a. Talk to your girlfriend / boyfriend and have her / him consciously reduce and
repel this behavior.
b. Understand as she / he just does it for fun and you trust them completely.
c. Break up as you cannot deal with it.
d. Constantly confront those who try to make a pass at your girlfriend /
boyfriend.

36. You have newly moved in to an apartment with a friend with the understanding
that all work is to be shared by both equally. However, she / he works and you
are a student, making you more available at the apartment than your friend.
You have tried to talk to her / him about this but she / he cannot help it due to
their work. You –

a. Move into a new apartment.

b. Quietly do all the work.
c. Do only whatever is necessary for yourself.
d. Ask her / him to move out.

37. You have just been married. You and your spouse cannot cook and afford to
hire one. You are both working and busy. You –

a. Both start trying to learn through TV and books despite your busy schedules
and extreme tiredness.
b. Just order take out repeatedly or go out for meals.
c. Ask your friends / relatives to bring in your meals till you can make
alternative arrangements. You promise to pay them for the groceries.
d. Urge your spouse to learn.

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38. You are a student in a tough academic class. You seem to be the only one who
cannot cope with the teaching styles and curriculum. No professor in that
institute will adjust for a single student due to lack of time and resources. What
will you do?

a. You leave the course for a simpler alternative

b. You try to talk to your professors despite knowing otherwise, to at least
sometimes give you some extra help.
c. You ask your busy and competitive friends to help you repeatedly.
d. You simply cheat through your exams.

39. You are assigned to an uncooperative guide for your research project. Somehow,
nothing is ever agreed upon. You –

a. Take up a topic of your guide’s choice.

b. Continue your own research ignoring your guide’s inputs and suggestions.
c. Modify the topic to suit both of you to gain cooperation.
d. Take external help against the rules for guidance in a project.

40. You have been sent abroad on deputation all alone for a particular project for 6
months. The work culture there is absolutely different and despite all your
efforts, you find staying a day longer to be a distressing thought. What will you
do?

a. You decide to give up your current project and get back to your own country
to your own company.
b. You change job to save face.
c. Continue putting in efforts to adapt despite distressing conditions.
d. Work in adverse conditions but look for other engaging/ fun activities in free
time.

41. You put up in a hostel where people do not watch the kind of programs you like
to watch. What will you do?

a. You stop watching television

b. You change your preference and start watching what others watch.
c. You wait for everyone to finish watching and then watch whatever you can.
d. You try to possess the T.V. remote by force

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42. You are assigned to a group for a project, but you find your group members
seem to have a work strategy that doesn’t suit you. You are most likely to –

a. Just slide into a passive mode, and let things be.

b. Attempt to discuss it with them.
c. Just try to contribute as much you can with their present style of working.
d. Tell them clearly they must change their style, else you won’t cooperate.

43. You as a lecturer find dictating notes most convenient way of teaching. But your
students seem to be uncomfortable with your present style of teaching. You are
most likely to –

a. Make it clear to them that this is the only way with which you can finish the
course.
b. Try to discuss other options with them.
c. Listen to them; but continue with the way that suits you, with some inventions
far in between.
d. You change your method of teaching to interest your students.

44. Your mother announces you will be having cousins coming over and that you’d
have to share your room with them for the duration of the visit. But it’s
uncomfortable for you since you are too used to having your room for yourself.
You are most likely to –

a. Not allow them to stay in your room.

b. Allow them to stay, but you make your displeasure evident in very many
ways.
c. Think it’s only a matter of few days, and be ok with it.
d. You yourself walk out of the room, to sleep in living room.

45. You realize that workload at college has increased too much and its bothering
you. You are most likely to –

a. Somehow bring yourself to not think about it & let it pile up.
b. Tweak your schedule in such a way to manage the workload.
c. Do as much you can with your present schedule.
d. Drop out of the course.

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46. You’ve just gotten to know that you aced your final examination; but your best
friend fared much lower than her expectations and that has her visibly sad. You
are most likely to –

a. Acknowledge her sadness, then go on to share your excitement.

b. Contain yourself, and focus on her since she is sad.
c. Just straight go on sharing with her how thrilled you were to see your marks.
d. Avoid meeting her.

47. You go over to stay at your friend’s place for the summer break for 3 months.
You are sharing the room with your friend and find that it’s very messy and
cluttered. What will you do?

a. Ask him/her to clean the room

b. Just make space for yourself or start cleaning it
c. Propose the idea of cleaning the room together
d. Do nothing about it

48. You are in a demanding academic course. You discover that your new roommate
is a musician. He/she practices all the time, which obviously disturbs you.
However, changing your room is not an possibility and your roommate says its
equally important for him/her to practice music as its important for you to
study. What would u do?

a. You leave/change your hostel.

b. You leave the comfort of your room and study elsewhere.
c. You both decide to study/ play music for a mutually decided number of hours,
even if it means losing out on some precious time.
d. You put ear plugs to try and minimize the noise around you and continue your
work in the room.

49. You join a prestigious college of your choice in the other part of the country for
a course of 4 years. The food available there is radically different from the food
found at your place. You find it very difficult to cope. What will you do?

a. Buy some packaged food everyday.

b. Try to start liking the food.
c. Eat as less as possible.
d. Leave your college and come back.

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 50. Your new boss is a chain smoker and you are allergic to smoke. Complaining
to him/her or your senior management is not an option. What will you do?

a. Try to avoid him/her as far as possible.

b. Bear with it as he/she is your boss.
c. Risk making subtle indications to him/her, e.g. covering your face, purposely
take medication in front of him each time he/she smokes, etc.
d. Change your job.

51. Your neighbor is a late sleeper and has a habit of putting on loud music late at
night, which disturbs your sleep. He is inconsiderate about your sleep
requirements despite your repeated requests. What will you do?

a. Start playing loud music yourself at odd hours to disturb him.

b. Complain to the authorities.
c. Just bear with it, and do nothing.
d. Get a petition signed from all affected neighbors that forces him to either
lower the volume or leave the premises.

52. You are teamed up with your best friend for the first time for an important long-
term project. You find out that your friend is unserious, laidback and
uninterested about it and often sheds responsibility of working on it, and makes
excuses whenever you ask him/her to join you. What will you do?

a. Ask your guide to change your team mate and not let it be known to your
friend.
b. Ask your guide to talk to your friend.
c. Do all the work on your own.
d. You start actively and repetitively showing your frustration while
simultaneously hiding your work away from him.

53. Your parents buy a very expensive piece of cloth for you on your birthday. You
give it to a tailor to stitch. He completely and irreversibly spoils it. What will you
do?

a. You ask the tailor to compensate you monetarily as a consumer right.

b. You force him to buy a similar piece of cloth and stitch you another dress.
c. You buy another cloth piece and make him stitch this one for no additional
cost.
d. You walk away with your stitched dress as it is, claiming bad luck.

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54. You and your colleague have fallen in love. This is strictly against the office
policy, with severe consequences if found. However, you both are individually
very well established where you are. What will you do?

a. You both leave the job to work elsewhere, but not together.
b. You yourself, leave the job.
c. You ask your lover to leave the job.
d. You realize the impracticality and end the relationship.

55. You have recently shifted schools. You have just been invited to your first party.
You feel like this is where you can make friends and get accepted to the peer
group of your choice. However, you find out that it is a pool party and you are
required to wear a bathing suit. You are very uncomfortable with your body
weight and shape. You are now anxious. What will you do?

a. You do not go, risking rejection.

b. You go, but violate the dress code and wear something you are comfortable
with risking rejection.
c. You go as you want but make an excuse about not knowing of the dress code.
d. You wear a bathing suit, risking humiliation.

56. You have been chosen to represent your country in a foreign delegation. At
dinner there, you are presented with unpalatable food. However, refusal is
considered impolite. What will you do?

a. You eat it.

b. You eat a little and quietly put the rest away (e.g. in the washroom, dustbin).
c. You make excuses like of an illness, allergy, and fast to avoid the food.
d. You risk it and refuse the food.

57. Your have a very loving and caring partner. But he/she has some very stringent
religious beliefs, which are very important for him/her and are indispensable.
They have an impact on every thing in his/her life from food habits to lifestyle.
You find it extremely difficult to accept these ideologies, and more importantly
be a part of them. What will you do?

a. You leave your partner.

b. You start suggesting your own beliefs on him/her.
c. You imbibe his/her beliefs anyway, and hope that probably one day you might
agree with them.
d. You come to a compromise and decide certain things you might do and draw a
line in other situations.

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58. You have always been a solo musician. When you enter college, they place you in
the college’s music band. The style of music this band makes is very different
from what you like and have been doing throughout your life, and you are facing
obvious difficulties. What will you do?

a. Talk to the relevant authorities and request them to let you leave the band.
b. Talk to your group members, make them listen to your kind of music and try
to convince them to even experiment in your genre.
c. You try to understand the perspective and preferences of your band members
and learn their style of music.
d. Play only that you are comfortable with within the band, but do away with any
extra demands.

59. Your current residence has scanty water supply. You come to know of another
accommodation where the water supply is adequate but it is expensive in
comparison to your current residence. What will you do?

a. Shift to the new residence and make some adjustments in your budget to fit in
the added expenditure.
b. Continue living in your current residence and try to reduce your water
consumption.
c. Buy packaged water to meet your day-to-day requirements and continue to
live in your current residence.
d. You continue to live in your existing residence and try to bring in the water
supply condition of your locality to the authorities’ notice.

60. You have bought a new expensive cell phone. You have lost the warranty card
but don’t report that. Your phone is only a month old but has started giving you
trouble. However, the problems are nominal and the phone is still usable, though
not to its best. You would –

a. Buy a new cell phone.

b. Manage with the existing phone despite the problems.
c. Get a local but not so trusted repairman to try his hand at fixing the phone.
d. Go to the store where you bought it from and create a scene trying to make
your claim.

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