Are you too inquisitive?

Prying, naturally inquisitive, only mildly curious, or splendidly indifferent to the ways and doings of others - which are you? These questions are cleverly designed to discover your true nature.

1) As a child, did you play games that involved prying on adults:

• Sometimes?
• Never?
• Only when encouraged to by other children?

2) At school, which of these subjects did you like best:

• Geography? 
• History?
• Science?

3) You pick up a stamped but un-posted letter someone has dropped in the street. Do you:

• Read the name and address, then post it?
• Post it without looking at the inscription?
• Steam it open, read the contents, then re-seal and post?

4) An unsealed envelope addressed to your neighbour is delivered to you by mistake. Do you:

• Give it to your neighbour without looking inside?
• Give it back to the postman?
• Read the contents and then deliver it next door?

5) In everyday conversation (gossipy or otherwise), do you tend to find yourself:

• Answering questions rather than asking them?
• Asking questions rather than answering them?
• Mostly just listening?

6) A neighbour who hasn't a phone asks to make an urgent call on yours. Do you:

• Retire discreetly to another part of the house?
• Stand by listening?
• Go to an adjoining room but carefully eavesdrop though the unfastened door?

7) Three policemen suddenly arrive at a house opposite yours. Do you:

• Go outside and watch what happens from close quarters?
• Watch from a curtained window?
• Take no notice whatsoever?

8) Have you ever, at any time in your life, played the role of a peeping Tom:

• More than once?
• Only once?
• Never?

9) Have you ever been to a party or any social gathering solely in the hope of picking up further details of some rumour or gossip concerning people you know:

• Never?
• Quite often?
• Very rarely?

10) Taking your room at a hotel, you swiftly realise that the intimate conversation of the couple in the next room is plainly audible from yours. Do you: 

Change your room?
• Indulge in an orgy of eavesdropping?
• Make a lot of noise yourself by way of warning your neighbours that the dividing wall isn't sound proof?

11) Visiting a sick friend in hospital, you suddenly notice in another bed an acquaintance you didn't know was ill. Do you:

• Find out from your friend what the person's complaint is?
• Go over and ask outright for details?
• Talk to the acquaintance but discreetly avoid asking for the medical details?

12) Honestly now, what has always interested you most:

Things (including animals?
• Places?
• People?

13) You are asked to sign someone's legal document solely as a witness. Do you:

• Ask if you may read the document?
• Read it as a matter of course?
• Sign as a witness without reading it at all?

14) Which of these parts of a newspaper do you enjoy reading the most?

• The birth, marriages and deaths?
• The general news and features?
• The gossip columns?

15) Left alone for a few minutes in your doctor's surgery, do you:

• Read your own case-history?
• Read nothing?
• Try and find someone else' s case history card in his open card index?

16) When total strangers in trains, waiting- rooms, etc., start telling you their life stories and problems , do you:

• Find it mildly interesting?
• Find it enthralling and encourage them with questions?
• Find it boring?

17) Do you believe curiosity about other folks' lives is unhealthy?

• Always?
• Never?
• Only if carried to excess?

18) Which do you believe most about other people's lives and habits?

• What they tell you themselves?
• Rumour and hearsay?
• What you've read in print?

19) Do you think you can learn from other people' s mistakes and adventures?

• No?
• Only in exceptional circumstances?
• Yes?

20) Which do you find most absorbing:

• The doings of famous people you read or hear about?
• The doings of other people you know personally?
• Your own doings?

-Asia Features

Calculate your score

1. (a) 5 (b) 0 (c) 2
2. (a) 1 (b) 4 (c) 0
3. (a) 3 (b) 1 (c) 6
4. (a) 2 (b) 0 (c) 5
5. (a) 2 (b) 5 (c) 3
6. (a) 1 (b) 6 (c) 5
7. (a) 5 (b) 4 (c) 0
8. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 1
9 (a) 0 (b) 5 (c) 2
10. (a) 1 (b) 6 (c) 3
11 (a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 1
12 (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 4
13 (a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 0 
14. (a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 5
15. (a) 3 (b) 1 (c) 6
16. (a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 1 
17 (a) 0 (b) 3 (c) 2 
18. (a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 2
19. (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 4
20 (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 0

If you rate .... Between 75 and 100: steady on, or that nose of yours will be getting you into trouble if it hasn't already done so! Between 50 and 75: you have a pretty strong inquisitive streak, though it rarely gets out of hand. Between 25 and 50: you could hardly care less about other people's business! Below 25, down to the minimum score of 16: you're so self-centred that it wouldn't hurt you to consider other folk once in a while!