Put your morals to the test
Colleen Dugan's morals quiz
What do you believe in? Do you think having a system of values is right?
What do you think is right and wrong? Take this quiz and determine just how much you listen to your conscience, or if you even have one.
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Illustration by Chiara Bautista / Staff
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1. How would you define morals?
A) Rules that constrict what you can and can't do, made to make you feel guilty about your actions.
B) The dumb things your parents try to enforce on you.
C) A set of personal standards that make up your character. Everyone's is different, yet we share base values.
D) The things I avoid most - they ruin my fun.
2. Who is the most influential person when it comes to your personal ethics?
A) My parents - I always listen and obey; they know absolutely everything.
B) Myself - I have a pretty good sense of what I should and shouldn't do because of my own conscience.
C) My friends - they always seem to share my views.
D) No one - there is no true definition of right and wrong, only what people perceive to be right and wrong.
3. My morals and beliefs. . .
A) Always stay concrete no matter what the situation. I have a very strong sense of self and don't ever fall to peer pressure.
B) Occasionally change through different situations because I learn certain lessons.
C) Change as often as I switch underwear. They depend on who I am with, where I am at, and what is going on.
D) Are things I violate every so often because I am human. Sometimes I don't follow my conscience, but normally I stick to what I know is right.
4. I find that lying is. . .
A) Easy! I can think up stories so well, I sometimes believe them myself.
B) Not something I feel I have to do. Even though I have lied before, I try not to.
C) Hard. It really stays in my mind after I do it, and sometimes I even end up telling the truth anyway because it's so difficult.
D) OK if I am doing it to protect someone from being hurt, or to keep from getting myself or another person in lots of trouble.
5) If I knew that my friend has a habit of shoplifting, I would:
A) Try to be an example and not join in, even though the person might try to get me to steal, too.
B) See if I can steal more and make into a game.
C) Tell the friend's parents or turn the person into store security.
D) Tell my friend that I think shoplifting is wrong, but I wouldn't try to enforce my belief.
6) You are going to receive a raise at your work, but you know your manager is racially discriminatory. If you complain, you won't get your raise. What do you do?
A) Stay quiet and receive your raise.
B) Quit - you'll look for another place to work to avoid a confrontation.
C) Tell your boss that you don't think the way he treats the other workers is fair, and take what comes with it before you accept the raise.
D) Accept the raise and tell the boss how you feel afterward. Even if the supervisor does nothing, you keep working. At least you let the person know.
7. If a cashier gives you too much change, do you return it?
A) Yes
B) No
Now tally up your points.
No. 1 = A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
No. 2 = A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
No. 3 = A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4
No. 4 = A-1, B-4, C-3, D-2
No. 5 = A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2
No. 6 = A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
No. 7 = A-4, B-1
22-28 points
You've got your stuff together. You know what you want, you know what you think is right, and you follow it most of the time. You are human, so you fail occasionally, but overall you have a good system of morals and values.
You are open-minded to other ways of thinking even though they may be different from your own.
15-21
Learn to be less rigid and more open to other's beliefs. Quit focusing on the severity of morals and decide what you really think is O.K. Stop focusing on what everyone else is going to think.
Exploring and satisfying your definitions of right and wrong can be a world better than just going by a set of strict rules that others enforce. Take those strict rules you already know and use them to create your own beliefs.
8-14
You have a tendency to worry more about what everyone else is doing - and not about what you think is right and wrong. You may know how you feel but still have difficulty acting on those beliefs. Overall, you need to strengthen what you know inside and portray it in an outside form. Stop following the crowd.
0-7
Why didn't you just quit at question No. 1? You probably couldn't even pronounce "morals." Recheck your life.
