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Concept of Childhood and Adolescence — Practice

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Q1. Under the Right to Education Act, 2009, a 'child' is defined as a person between the ages of
- A. 0 and 18 years
- B. 6 and 14 years
- C. 5 and 14 years
- D. 6 and 18 years
Q2. According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a child is a human being below the age of
- A. 14 years
- B. 16 years
- C. 18 years
- D. 21 years
Q3. The Juvenile Justice Act in India considers persons of which age as children?
- A. Below 14 years of age
- B. Below 18 years of age
- C. Between 6 and 14 years of age
- D. Between 0 and 18 years of age
Q4. Article 21A of the Constitution of India says the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children within the ages of
- A. 0 and 6 years
- B. 3 and 14 years
- C. 6 and 14 years
- D. 6 and 18 years
Q5. Under the Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act, 1986, a child is a person who has not completed
- A. 12 years of age
- B. 14 years of age
- C. 16 years of age
- D. 18 years of age
Q6. The age range of early adolescence is
- A. 8-10 years
- B. 10-13 years
- C. 14-15 years
- D. 16-18 years
Q7. The term 'adolescence' comes from the Latin verb 'adolescere', which means
- A. to play
- B. to grow up or to grow to maturity
- C. to learn
- D. to become a citizen
Q8. The term 'pubescence' refers to
- A. the moment a child attains physical and sexual maturity
- B. the entire stage of late adolescence
- C. the legal age of becoming an adult
- D. the two-year period that precedes puberty
Q9. There is no single universal definition of childhood mainly because childhood
- A. is determined only by biological growth
- B. differs across time, place and culture
- C. begins exactly at birth and ends at age 13
- D. is decided only by the Right to Education Act
Q10. Which thinker, wrote that childhood as a concept did not exist in the medieval period?
- A. John Holt
- B. Mayall
- C. Philippe Aries
- D. Ruth Benedict
Q11. In Judaism boys are considered 'bar mitzvah' at the age of
- A. 10 years
- B. 12 years
- C. 16 years
- D. 13 years
Q12. Among the Navajo Americans, the ritual called Kinaalda is performed for
- A. boys at the onset of puberty
- B. girls at the onset of menarche
- C. both boys and girls at age 16
- D. newborn babies in the first week
Q13. The 'age of feeling-in-between' applies to
- A. children only
- B. adults only
- C. adolescents only
- D. all three — child, adolescent and adult
Q14. 'social construction' is defined as a theoretical perspective that explores the ways in which
- A. reality is given by biological laws
- B. reality is fixed across all cultures
- C. 'reality' is negotiated in everyday life through people's interactions and sets of discourses
- D. reality is decided only by the State and its laws
Q15. The cognition of a child is best characterised by
- A. freshness in thought — always seeing the world through new eyes
- B. polarities such as right/wrong and good/bad
- C. awareness of multiple perspectives of others
- D. abstract thinking based on long experience

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