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Growing Up with Media — Quiz

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Q1. What most children actually do online is listed. Which list best matches the material?
- A. Filing income-tax returns and booking train tickets
- B. Reading e-books from the National Digital Library only
- C. Playing games on the internet, using Facebook, YouTube and Google, and texting, commenting and posting their own status updates
- D. Operating banking apps and trading shares
Q2. When it is said that children 'like, post and share what they want' on social media, this behaviour is treated as
- A. A form of self-expression that children value very much
- B. A harmless waste of time with no developmental meaning
- C. Proof that children no longer need parents
- D. An age-appropriate replacement for school
Q3. In today's scenario, media is best described as
- A. A formal teacher delivering the school syllabus
- B. An occasional visitor in children's lives
- C. A replacement for the family
- D. A peer that is available 24×7 with the child and influences mental, emotional and social wellbeing
Q4. Sunita, a Class 4 teacher in Rampur, notices that Priya is increasingly inattentive, frequently skips meals and looks sleep-deprived. The most likely connected cause she should explore first is
- A. A vision defect that needs an eye-test
- B. Confusion about the Hindi alphabet
- C. Lack of yoga in the school timetable
- D. Excessive use of entertainment media at home
Q5. According to Vygotsky, 'dominant activities' are activities that are pervasive among children within a particular culture. In the digital age, the dominant activity for children is said to be
- A. Outdoor games like kabaddi and hopscotch
- B. Religious storytelling by grandparents
- C. Engagement with media and interactive technology
- D. Memorising multiplication tables aloud
Q6. Vygotsky's ZPD is applied to the digital age by saying a child's potential developmental level is reached
- A. Under the guidance of more expert adults, including the use of media as a means of social interaction
- B. Only when the child is left alone with the device for several hours
- C. Only after the child crosses the age of fifteen years
- D. Only when the child memorises information through rote repetition
Q7. It is argued that Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory is relevant to contemporary communication researchers because media
- A. Is a one-way broadcast that requires no social interaction
- B. Replaces parents and teachers in shaping the child
- C. Is the same as classroom teaching with a strict syllabus
- D. Is a cultural tool that mediates social interactions among children
Q8. When younger children play with edutainment apps, they pick up 'numeracy skills' specifically by
- A. Reciting English nursery rhymes
- B. Watching cartoons in silence
- C. Getting familiarised with various shapes and sizes, counting, addition, subtraction and so on
- D. Operating mobile-banking apps
Q9. Older children, through various age-appropriate apps and games, especially develop
- A. Better handwriting and copy-book neatness
- B. Recall of dates in Indian history
- C. A higher pain threshold for sports injuries
- D. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Q10. Older children acquire 'family values' through social games and educational quizzes because such activities help them
- A. Adjust their own wants by observing other people's needs and interests
- B. Win prize money in competitions
- C. Avoid all conversation with siblings
- D. Bypass parental supervision online
Q11. Rahul, a Class 8 adolescent, wants to prepare for the Sainik School entrance examination. His teacher should suggest that media benefits him primarily by giving him
- A. More TV serials so that he can relax
- B. Online matrimonial profiles for life planning
- C. Ready access to many websites that help him prepare for various competitive examinations
- D. Mobile games that reward fast typing speed
Q12. On Indian TV, the working woman is shown as the epitome of modern values while the housewife embodies Indian values. The unit warns that this binary equates
- A. Tradition with self-sacrifice and modernity with selfishness
- B. Indian values with illiteracy
- C. Westernisation with national pride
- D. Modernisation and westernisation with moral degradation
Q13. Under 'Sex in the media', it is said that sex is shown in media through
- A. Only printed novels for adults
- B. Only foreign films, never Indian content
- C. Live theatre performances alone
- D. Pictures, language, songs, actions, provocative dresses and content
Q14. Media's link to obesity is called a 'vicious cycle' because
- A. Pencil-slim figures and the hefty pay of those models attract children, while long TV hours add physical lethargy that itself leads to obesity
- B. All children who watch TV inherit obesity from their parents
- C. Yoga is banned in schools that allow television
- D. Children stop drinking water completely while watching TV
Q15. Meena, a primary teacher, is preparing for an in-service training on media influence. The FIRST priority of such training for teachers like her is to
- A. Teach children how to download educational apps quickly
- B. Buy a personal smartphone for every student in the school
- C. Help teachers unlearn their own biases and preconceived notions
- D. Ban television in every staff-room of the school

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