Political Personality Test

Hong Kong politics can be difficult to understand at the best of times, so we’ve devised a handy quiz for you to gauge just where your political allegiances lie.

1. The Star Ferry announces a price hike. How do you react?
a) Pressure the government to subsidize senior citizens with free fans for hot days.
b) Resign to show everyone how much you care about this issue. Also, tell everyone they should have the freedom to decide on their own mode of transport.
c) You are paid $30 million by the Tourism Board to smile and wave from the new Star Ferry pier for a 20-second spot.

2. You are asked to comment on the recent spate of “spider children” climbing down scaffolding outside high-rise apartment blocks. What do you do?
a) You quickly conduct and release a spurious study pinpointing the most climbable scaffolding in Hong Kong.
b) You refuse to participate in this issue until functional constituencies are abolished! 2012!! Yeah!!!
c) Insist that the children are not yours.

3. How will you be celebrating National Day on October 1?
a) Front row seat for the fireworks display, with additional applause for patriotic red fireworks.
b) Staging the mother of all vigils, including candles as far as the eye can see, protest songs and the release of 10,000 doves—but only 10 people show up (authorities estimate 3).
c) By starring in “The Founding of the Republic” alongside all of China’s biggest celebrities (and conveniently forgetting your own Canadian citizenship).

4. You have been appointed the director of the West Kowloon Cultural District. What do you do first?
a) Introduce clowns on stilts, macaroni necklaces and a face-painting station for the kids—you know, artsy stuff.
b) You stage a hunger strike.
c) Just throw in some CGI armies and you’ll be fine.

5. Reports come in that Hong Kong journalists have been beaten by police in Xinjiang. Your party needs to issue a statement. You say:
a) You are torn—on the one hand, it is imperative that China control its dissidents and splittists; on the other hand, your constituency is getting upset. So you release a lukewarm statement that toes the line between the two.
b) Your press department kicks into overdrive, issuing e-blasts, SMS messages, YouTube videos, and you hold radio, newspaper and TV interviews, all decrying the events.
c) You are escorted from the scene by your security retinue and handed an Evian.