As the authors note, this tool assumes that empathy is primarily an emotional process. That is a limited approach to empathy, particularly intercultural empathy, which entails interpreting experience from more than one perspective or worldview (cognitive) and acting in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of someone with a different worldview (AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge & Competence VALUE Rubric). This questionnaire has no questions related to intercultural empathy, and in fact, some of its questions seem to promote emotional responses that may also be associated with feelings of superiority or objectification of others.

 This quiz, from the Greater Good Science Center based at the University of California - Berkeley, uses questions from the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire and from 2 other empathy-related surveys developed by researchers. It offers a more nuanced approach to empathy and would make a great formative activity as it can be completed online and is automatically scored.