Quiz It
How independent are you?
Do you follow where others lead, or do you lead and others follow? Are you at the head of the herd or one of the pack? How independent are you - find out in this fun quiz.


1: After a long time of thinking about it you decide to radically change your hairstyle. Whose advice do you take on what style would best suit you?
a) Your partner or best friend
b) Your hairdresser
c) No one, you know what you like
2: There’s a movie that you would like to see. Your friend has seen it and says it’s awful and that you’d waste your money going to see it. So do you?
a) Watch another movie instead
b) Go to see the film, convinced that you won’t enjoy it
c) Go to see the film and make up your own mind
3: Out shopping with a friend you try on a dress that you really like and intend to buy. But your friend says it’s not really you. What do you do?
a) Put the dress back and find something she says suits you
b) Buy the dress, you’re happy that’s all that matters
c) Leave the dress, but go back to buy it on your own
4: Your grandmother always owned a cat; your mother always owned a cat. You’ ve decided to get yourself a pet. What do you get?
a) A cat
b) A dog
c) Something exotic like a lizard or tarantula spider
5: After doing a lot of saving you are ready to buy a car. Whose advice do you take on what kind of car to get?
a) You have already chosen what type of car you want
b) Your partner, friends, family, work colleagues or neighbours
c) The salesman at the garage where you go to buy the car
6: Since you were a very young girl your family wanted you to be a nurse, but you would like to be an air hostess. What career would you choose?
a) A nurse, so that your family were happy
b) You would find a compromise that pleased your family, that you also enjoyed
c) An airhostess, because it would make you happy
7: You’re going out on the town with a group of friends. They think it would be fun all of you to dress in 1970’s fashion, but you think it would look ridiculous. So would you?
a) Get dressed in 70’s gear just so you are one of the crowd
b) Compromise by wearing a single item of 70’s fashion, but nothing too bizarre
c) Wear what you would normally wear for an evening out
8: The resort chosen for your holiday is the place?
a) Where your partner or friend choose
b) Where you chose to go
c) Where you went as a child with your family
9: When do you feel at your happiest?
a) Alone
b) With your partner or a few close friends
c) In a huge crowd
10: All your friends are raving about a male singer who’s extremely successful and popular, but you don’t think he is that good. What do you reply when a friend asks your opinion of him?
a) You answer that’s he’s awful and you’ve no idea why he’s so popular
b) You say he’s good, but there are other singers you prefer
c) So not as to be different to your friends, you agree that he’s fantastic
BY Theresa Murphy/ Planet Syndication