How the questions are made

Someone praises a piece of your work that you know is not your best.

1. Say thank you.
2. Say it is not your best.
3. Show the work you are proud of.

Your father, who is very ill, asks if he is going to get better.

1. Tell him the truth as you know it.
2. Tell him he will.
3. Tell him about the best day you had together.

Your seven-year-old daughter asks where babies come from, at dinner with guests.

1. Tell her the truth, simply.
2. Tell her a story instead.
3. Let one of the guests answer.

At a family dinner, your uncle tells a story about you that is not true, and everyone laughs.

1. Laugh along.
2. Tell everyone what really happened.
3. Tell a funnier story about him.

Your partner cooks for you for the first time, and the food is not good.

1. Say it is delicious and finish your plate.
2. Tell your partner honestly.
3. Laugh together and order food instead.

Your best friend asks if you like her new boyfriend, and you don't.

1. Tell her the truth.
2. Say you like him.
3. Tell him that you don't like him.

In a queue, the person in front of you is rude to the cashier.

1. Tell the person to stop.
2. Stay quiet.
3. Say something kind to the cashier.

At a neighborhood meeting, everyone agrees on a plan you think will not work.

1. Say why it will not work.
2. Vote for it with everyone else.
3. Ask the people who have not spoken what they think.

A friend asks if you believe in ghosts, and everyone at the table turns to hear your answer.

1. Say yes.
2. Say no.
3. Tell them about the strangest thing that ever happened to you.

You have one hour to choose between three apartments, and each one is fine.

1. Take the cheapest one.
2. Take the one near your friends.
3. Take the one near your family.

Your mother, who lives alone and has started to forget things, says she wants to go on living on her own.

1. Move her in with you.
2. Let her stay as she wishes.
3. Move to live near her.

Your son wants to wear a superhero costume to a family wedding.

1. Let him.
2. Say no.
3. Wear one too.

Your late aunt has left her piano to you and your cousin, and you need to decide who keeps it.

1. Sell it and share the money.
2. Pay him his share and keep it.
3. Give it to him.

Your partner is offered a job in another city and asks what you think, before you have had time to think.

1. Say yes, take it.
2. Ask your partner to stay.
3. Say you will move too.

You and a friend are lost on a walk, and both your phones are dead.

1. Follow your friend's way.
2. Follow your own.
3. Ask the first person you see.

At a market, the seller tells you this is the last one and the price goes up tomorrow.

1. Buy it now.
2. Walk away.
3. Offer a lower price.

A group in your town asks you to lead a project you have never done before, and they need an answer today.

1. Say yes.
2. Say no.
3. Suggest someone better for it.

On the morning of an important exam, your lucky pen stops working.

1. Use any other pen.
2. Borrow a friend's lucky pen.
3. Take the broken pen in with you anyway.

You cry at a sad film, and the lights come on before the end of the credits.

1. Wipe your eyes quickly.
2. Let the tears be.
3. Laugh at yourself.

Your father gives you a sweater he chose himself, and you would never wear it.

1. Wear it to dinner tonight.
2. Thank him and put it away.
3. Tell him it is not your style.

Your daughter finds you crying after you have heard bad news.

1. Tell her why you are sad.
2. Tell her you are fine.
3. Hold her and say nothing.

Your grandmother asks you, for the fifth time, to show her how to send a photo on her phone.

1. Show her again, step by step.
2. Do it for her.
3. Tell her you are tired of explaining.

Your partner forgets your birthday.

1. Tell your partner how you feel.
2. Say nothing.
3. Plan your own celebration.

Your closest friend tells you she is moving to the other side of the world next month.

1. Tell her you are happy for her.
2. Tell her how much you will miss her.
3. Start planning a visit to her.

At a restaurant, a child at the next table keeps kicking your chair, and the parents do not notice.

1. Ask the parents to stop him.
2. Move to another table.
3. Turn around and make a face at him.

The neighborhood you grew up in will be torn down for a new road, and the city holds a meeting about it.

1. Stand up and say what the place means to you.
2. Accept it quietly.
3. Bring your neighbors together to fight it.

You dream that your late grandmother is telling you not to worry.

1. Take it as a message from her.
2. Take it as just a dream.
3. Tell your family about it.

You join a new group where everyone already knows each other.

1. Introduce yourself to everyone.
2. Stay quiet and listen first.
3. Find the one other person standing alone.

Your mother has packed snacks for you to share with your new colleagues on your first day at work.

1. Bring them and share.
2. Bring them and keep them hidden.
3. Leave them at home.

Your son tells you the other children at school leave him out.

1. Talk to his teacher.
2. Help him find friends outside school.
3. Invite the other children to your home.

Your family group chat sends two hundred messages a day.

1. Leave without a word.
2. Stay and mute it.
3. Ask everyone to post less.

At your wife's family gatherings, everyone talks about people you have never met.

1. Ask who they are.
2. Listen quietly.
3. Bring up something everyone knows.

Your friends start making fun of a newcomer to your group, and look at you to join in.

1. Join in.
2. Tell them to stop.
3. Go and sit with the newcomer.

A tourist is shouting angrily at people in a language you do not understand.

1. Try to help him.
2. Walk past.
3. Shout back.

A family from another country opens a restaurant in your neighborhood, and some of your neighbors say unkind things about it.

1. Eat there and bring your friends.
2. Stay away, like most of your neighbors.
3. Tell your neighbors to give it a chance.

Before a big match, your whole team follows a lucky ritual that you think is silly.

1. Join the ritual.
2. Skip it.
3. Start a new ritual of your own.

At a restaurant, the menu has a dish you have never heard of.

1. Order it.
2. Order your usual.
3. Ask the waiter to choose for you.

Your father, who is seventy, wants to start sharing his cooking online.

1. Help him set it up.
2. Tell him it is a silly idea.
3. Cook with him on camera.

Your daughter, who has never lived away from home, wants to study on the other side of the world.

1. Tell her to go.
2. Ask her to study closer to home.
3. Go with her to help her settle in.

Your cousin offers you a dish he says is a family secret, and it smells terrible.

1. Eat it.
2. Politely say no.
3. Ask him to take the first bite.

Your husband wants the two of you to take a cooking class together.

1. Go with him.
2. Let him go alone.
3. Suggest a different class you would both enjoy.

Your friends are planning a trip to a country none of you has visited.

1. Go with them.
2. Stay home.
3. Plan your own trip somewhere else.

A street performer asks for a volunteer from the crowd and points at you.

1. Step forward.
2. Shake your head.
3. Push your friend forward instead.

Your town asks for volunteers to try a new way of sorting waste, and nobody on your street has signed up.

1. Sign up.
2. Leave it to others.
3. Get your whole street to sign up.

You love drawing by hand, and your friends have started making pictures with AI.

1. Try it.
2. Keep drawing by hand.
3. Stop drawing altogether.

You find a diary you wrote at fifteen, full of plans you had forgotten.

1. Read it all tonight.
2. Throw it away.
3. Pick one old plan and start it again.

Your mother tells her friends you have a better job than you really do.

1. Let it go.
2. Correct her in front of them.
3. Ask her, just the two of you, to stop.

Your son, who is very good at math, wants to become a cook.

1. Support him.
2. Push him toward math.
3. Teach him to cook yourself.

At every family gathering, your aunt calls you by your sister's name.

1. Answer to it.
2. Correct her every time.
3. Call her by the wrong name too.

Your wife shares photos of your life together online, and you are a private person.

1. Let her post what she likes.
2. Ask her to leave you out.
3. Start posting yourself too.

Your oldest friends still treat you as the person you were at school, and you have changed.

1. Show them who you are now.
2. Be your old self when you are with them.
3. Spend more time with your newer friends.

A man stops you in the street, sure that you are a famous actor, and asks for a photo.

1. Pose for the photo.
2. Tell him you are not.
3. Offer to take his picture alone.

People in your town still judge you for something your grandfather did long ago.

1. Ignore it.
2. Tell them you are not him.
3. Move to a town where nobody knows your family.

All your friends follow a popular diet and say it is the only healthy way, and you do not believe it.

1. Join them.
2. Keep eating your own way.
3. Offer them a new diet to try.

You are offered a job that pays far more but leaves no time for the things you love.

1. Take it.
2. Turn it down.
3. Ask for even more.

Your father asks you to promise to keep the family house after he is gone.

1. Promise.
2. Tell him you may sell it one day.
3. Ask him to leave it to your brother.

Your son's team wins because of a referee's mistake, and he asks if they really won.

1. Tell him a win is a win.
2. Tell him it was not fair.
3. Help him write to the other team.

Your uncle always insists on paying for every meal, and today you want to pay.

1. Let him pay.
2. Pay secretly before he notices.
3. Argue until he gives in.

Your wife wants to spend your savings on a trip around the world, and you want to buy a home.

1. Go on the trip.
2. Buy the home.
3. Start a business together instead.

Your best friend asks you to lie to his boss for him.

1. Lie for him.
2. Refuse.
3. Tell his boss the truth.

A shop gives you too much change by mistake, and you notice only when you get home.

1. Go back and return it.
2. Keep it.
3. Give it to someone who needs it.

Your neighbors are collecting money for a family whose house burned down, and you barely know them.

1. Give what you can.
2. Give nothing.
3. Help them rebuild instead of giving money.

Your friend's fortune teller warns that her wedding date is unlucky, and she wants to change it.

1. Help her find a new date.
2. Tell her it is nonsense.
3. Find another fortune teller with better news.