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Find out where to lend YOUR hand.

Who are YOU most interested in helping?

by Cinse Bonino

Who do you most want to help? What cause are you willing to donate some of your time to? What's important enough to make you stand up, speak out, and get involved? Maybe you already know. Maybe you're not sure. Take our quiz and find out where you might be willing to lend your hand . . .

For more ideas on how and where to volunteer check out Care Girl.

1. Which upsets you the most? Someone who . . .

a. won't share her lunch with a friend who has forgotten hers.
b. wouldn't be caught dead sitting in the cafeteria with a foreign exchange student.
c. refuses to discuss Harry Potter because she thinks that it should be banned.

2. Which one of these things that your new boyfriend's dad does while you' re eating dinner at his house most makes you wonder if you'll ever get along with his family?

a. He fills his plate with way too much food and then barely eats any.
b. He uses the "N" word when he talks about blacks.
c. He refuses to let anyone talk about religion or politics in his presence.

3. There is a story about poor people who got hurt when a condemned building collapsed in New York in all the major newspapers. You can't stop thinking about . . .

a. those poor people who were only trying to find a way to survive.
b. how they only showed photos of the black people and Hispanics who died even though the article says there were white people who died too.
c. the fact that your local newspaper didn't print the story when all the other area papers did.

4. Which would you dislike your parents doing the most?

a. making you go to bed without any supper
b. not allowing you to sleep at a friend's house because of her race or religion
c. not being willing to listen to your side of what happened when you got in trouble at school

5. You think it's time for a protest at your school. You most want to change . . .

a. the way free lunches are claimed in the cafeteria - many kids go hungry because they are too embarrassed to let other kids know they are getting free lunches.
b. the fact that all the artwork hanging in the school features white people!
c. the principal's right to approve all articles that go into the school paper.

6. You're a great artist. The United Way wants you to contribute a drawing. Which of the following assignments would you choose?

a. a "donate food to a hungry neighbor" sign to be used at supermarkets
b. a diversity poster to be hung in libraries and other public buildings
c. a "free speech means . . ." poster to be hung in elementary schools

7. This summer you can spend two months in Jamaica with your aunt if you do volunteer work of your choice for five hours each week. You pick . . .

a. helping families prepare garden plots.
b. reading stories from differ cultures around the world to kids at the local library.
c. distributing pamphlets about family planning and STDs to young girls who are uninformed about these matters.

8. Which one of these things would you have the most trouble forgiving your parents for doing?

a. harping at you for eating too much or too little
b. freaking out if you dated someone of a different race or religion
c. acting like some thing didn't happen in your family that definitely did

9. Which one of these characters really got under your skin the first time you heard about them?

a. Scrooge - because he only cared about himself and was willing to let Tiny Tim and his family go hungry.
b. The stepmother in Cinderella - because she thought Cinderella wasn't as good as HER daughters.
c. Pharaoh - because he wouldn't let anyone have any religion other than his.

10. Who do YOU consider the biggest hero?

a. Mother Theresa
b. Martin Luther King
c. anyone jailed or killed in a foreign country for speaking against the government

11. You'd try your hardest to convince your parents to . . .

a. be part of a walk-a-thon to raise money to fight hunger.
b. march in a gay rights parade.
c. join a protest over the way your local paper censors the news.

12. The kind of girl you'll never pick as your best friend is one who . . .

a. thinks she is more important than anyone.
b. judges people before she gets to know them.
c. refuses to talk about anything except what she wants to talk about.