Concept of Childhood and Adolescence — Practice

Q1. According to the anthropological perspective on childhood, children may be treated as

• A. small adults in the making
• B. passive recipients of biology
• C. blank slates with no culture
• D. miniature consumers

Q2. The French historian Philippe Aries (1962) argued that

• A. childhood has existed in every age and culture
• B. childhood is a very new concept and did not exist in the medieval period
• C. childhood ends biologically at the age of seven
• D. childhood is purely a Hindu cultural construct

Q3. Under the Right of Education Act 2009, a 'child' is defined as a person between which ages?

• A. 0 and 18 years
• B. 0 and 14 years
• C. 6 and 14 years
• D. 6 and 18 years

Q4. Article 21A of the Constitution of India says that the State shall provide free and compulsory education to children of which age group?

• A. between 0 and 6 years
• B. between 6 and 14 years
• C. between 14 and 18 years
• D. between 3 and 14 years

Q5. Under the Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act, 1986, a 'child' is a person who

• A. has not completed 18 years of age
• B. has not completed 16 years of age
• C. has not completed 14 years of age
• D. has not completed 12 years of age

Q6. The term 'adolescence' comes from the Latin verb 'adolescere', which means

• A. to play
• B. to learn
• C. to grow up / to grow to maturity
• D. to fall in love

Q7. Among the stages of adolescence, Early Adolescence is given as the age range

• A. 8-10 years
• B. 10-13 years
• C. 14-15 years
• D. 16-18 years

Q8. The term 'puberty' is used to denote the time when a child

• A. attains physical and sexual maturity
• B. starts secondary schooling
• C. begins to walk and talk
• D. achieves financial independence

Q9. In Judaism, boys are considered 'bar mitzvah' at the age of

• A. ten
• B. twelve
• C. thirteen
• D. sixteen

Q10. 'vestibule adolescence' as the term used in middle-class America for the age period

• A. 10-13 years
• B. 14-15 years
• C. 16-18 years
• D. 18-20 years

Q11. The 'age of feeling-in-between' is used to describe

• A. children only
• B. adults only
• C. adolescents who consider themselves as emerging adults
• D. infants between birth and three years

Q12. Adolescents often view the world in terms of

• A. polarities such as right/wrong, good/bad
• B. freshness of thought, as if seeing with new eyes
• C. multiple perspectives gained from experience
• D. purely sensory information without thought

Q13. Mr. Arun teaches Class 7 in Rampur (students aged 12). Most of his students fall in

• A. late childhood, well before adolescence
• B. early adolescence (10-13 years)
• C. mid adolescence (14-15 years)
• D. late adolescence (16-18 years)

Q14. According to the social-policy view of the child, the Right to Education Act 2009 ensures that any cost on education up to how many years of schooling will be borne by the State?

• A. 5 years (Classes I-V)
• B. 8 years (Classes I-VIII)
• C. 10 years (Classes I-X)
• D. 12 years (Classes I-XII)

Q15. Ms. Geeta teaches Class 6 in a rural school in Bihar that serves children of farmers, weavers and migrant labourers. The most appropriate conclusion she should draw is that

• A. all 11-year-old children share the same experience of childhood
• B. childhood differs across time, place and culture, so she must understand each learner's context
• C. only urban children have a real 'childhood'; rural children are little adults
• D. the legal age of 14 makes all children below it identical learners