1. Assess your cultural literacy of one set of cultural display rules: emoticons. Can you identify the following emoticons?

Use these questions to assess your interpersonal space orientation:

2. In a conversation with a stranger, how far away would you stand from him or her?

3. In a conversation with a same-sex friend, how far away would you stand from him or her?

Assess your need for privacy or intrapersonal space. Choose the answer that best reflects your tendencies:

4. How irritated or stressed out do you get when someone enters your room without knocking?
    a. Not very irritated
    b. Very irritated

5. How irritated or stressed out do you get when someone interrupts you?
    a. Not very irritated
    b. Very irritated

Use this self-assessment to learn about your monochronic and polychronic time tendencies. Choose whether you tend to agree or disagree with the following statements. Can you identify the time orientations reflected in these statements?

6. Meeting deadlines is very important to me.
    Agree
    Disagree

7. It’s OK to be late when you’re having a wonderful conversation with someone.
    Agree
    Disagree

8. Can you name the three countries that average the least amount of work hours per week?

9. Learn how MT and PT orientations affect lateness apologies. You arrive to class late. What will you say to your instructor if you are:
    1. 30 seconds late
    2. Three minutes late
    3. 15 minutes late