Generosity-te

Model Attitude Test

Related Value: Generosity

1. If you have a coat which does not fit you, would you:
   1. Give it to your servant’s child
   2. Remove the beautiful brass buttons and then give it
   3. Just let it lie in the cupboard
2. If your mother gives you Rs. 50/- would you:
   1. Give it to a poor person who asks for it
   2. Keep it until you find something you would like to buy
   3. Spend it in the canteen
3. If a boy, good at drawing, wants you to share your crayons with him in the drawing contest, would you:
   1. Offer to share with him willingly
   2. Give him unwillingly
   3. Give him only the useless colors
4. If you get a beautiful toy on your birthday and your sister likes it too, would you:
   1. Give it to her
   2. Let her play with it occasionally
   3. Never let her play with it
5. If you are selling a Raffle book for the school fair and you get the 11^th ticket free for yourself, would you:
   1. Give it to a poor boy
   2. Keep it with yourself
   3. Sell it and keep the money with you
6. There is a poor classmate who wants to watch a nice children’s movie on the TV. Would you:
   1. Invite him/her to your house
   2. Give excuses why you cannot invite them
   3. When he comes, let him in, but make him feel he is not really welcome
7. If a poor man comes to your house, would you:
   1. Give him all your pocket money
   2. Give him a part of it
   3. Tell him that you have no money
8. You have gone to a new class and you don’t need your old books, would you:
   1. Give them to a poor girl who may need them
   2. Give them only if someone asks you
   3. Sell them to a ‘Kabari-Wala’
9. If you are playing a game, would you:
   1. Play even with the boys you don’t like
   2. Play with everyone
   3. Play with only your friends

[Adapted from: ‘Attitude Tests’, A Handbook for Balvikas gurus and Teachers by Smt.G.Nalini Padmanaban]