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Preparing a personality quiz

How sociable are you?How open-minded are you?How fashionable are you?How generous are you?How studious are you?How reliable are you?How honest are you?How compassionate are you?

1 Form into 8 groups. Each group work on a different topic, i.e. different question listed below. Each group have to make at least five questions for each topic.

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Now talk about ways to test the personality trait.

Take “How sociable are you?” as an example.

How sociable are you?

going to parties

making new friends

meeting your friends

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2 Write some questions for a quiz, and decide on scores.3 Talk to three different people and ask them the questions in your quiz.4 Write a description which tells people about their personality.5 Report back to the class on who scored highest and lowest on your quiz.

Example quiz

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How open-minded are you?

Example quiz

1 If you hear an opinion you don’t agree with, do you ...? A disregard this opinion straightaway B listen politely, but not take in any points C consider this opinion again and see if there is any new information which may change your mind

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2 If you attend a lecture by a famous teacher, do you ...?

A accept all the points made in this lecture, because this person is famous B question some points in your mind, but don’t think further C ask questions about the points you have queries about and evaluate the answers given

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3 If you attend a lecture in which you think you know the content well, do you ...?

A stop listening to the lecture

B listen, but not attentively

C listen carefully and check if the lecturer has made all the points you know and any points you don’t

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4 When you read a textbook, do you ...?

A accept everything said in the book B still use the content even if you have different opinions C challenge the textbook and write down all your queries in order to ask your teacher or discuss them with your classmates

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5 When you receive a low mark, do you ...?

A blame the person who marked your work B think “well, bad luck, I know I did not put much time there, but I was hoping the teacher would give me a higher mark” C ask yourself and later your teacher about how you can improve your learning and get a

higher mark in your next piece of work

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Scores for choices

A 0 point B 1 point C 3 points

Add up all your scores for the five questions and refer to the interpretations on the next page.

What is your total

score?

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• If you get a score lower than 5, it indicates that you are not open-minded.

• If you get a score lower than 10, this shows that you are able to think in

an evaluative way, but is not willing to

pursue your initial thoughts further.

• If you get a score higher than 10, you are active thinkers, willing to take

on different opinions, reconsider them and make a judgment based on known and

new information.