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Contemporary Issues Affecting Adolescents — Quiz

15 questions 15 min Apply concepts

Q1. In a class 7 school in Rampur, two boys of equal strength shout at each other once over a lost pencil and never repeat it. This incident
- A. is bullying because two children fought
- B. is bullying because there is verbal aggression
- C. is NOT bullying because there is no repetition and no power imbalance
- D. is bullying because it happened in a classroom
Q2. A group of class 8 girls in a Bihar school repeatedly excludes Aarti from their lunch group because she belongs to a different religious community. This is most accurately classified as
- A. a normal friendship preference, not bullying
- B. covert bullying — repeated exclusion linked to a discriminating factor
- C. an academic problem to be referred to the maths teacher
- D. a healthy social choice that schools should respect
Q3. Children who are bullied over a long period are at higher risk of
- A. scoring higher marks in tests because of more attention
- B. developing low self-esteem, anxiety and depression
- C. becoming more popular in school assemblies
- D. developing improved interpersonal communication skills
Q4. A class 7 teacher in Rampur catches a student who has been bullying classmates. In her 'Role of a Teacher', she should NOT
- A. talk to the child to understand the underlying reasons
- B. involve the school counsellor and parents in the resolution
- C. give the bullying child corporal punishment to set an example
- D. have a clear school policy against bullying
Q5. Adolescents sometimes inhale ordinary household items to get high. Examples specifically listed by the unit include
- A. fresh milk, tea and coffee
- B. cough syrups, shoe polish and ink remover used as inhalants
- C. regular fruit juice and energy drinks
- D. school chalk and blackboard duster
Q6. Among the reasons why adolescents start substance use, which one is described as the 'most common'?
- A. wanting to score higher marks in board examinations
- B. easy availability of these substances
- C. explicit instructions from school teachers
- D. advice from school counsellors
Q7. Adolescent or teenage pregnancy in India
- A. has been completely eliminated by school education
- B. is rising despite increasing levels of schooling and awareness
- C. occurs only among adolescents who have left school
- D. is a problem of foreign countries, not of India
Q8. School counselling, abstinence messages and close parent-child bonding together help reduce teenage-pregnancy risk. This implies the school's BEST role is to
- A. focus only on academic content and ignore home life
- B. partner with parents to build close communication, alongside age-appropriate sex education
- C. expel any student who asks about sexuality
- D. deny that the issue exists in upper-primary classrooms
Q9. According to Seroczynski, Jacquez & Cole , the three broad categories of risk factors for adolescent suicide are
- A. psychological, behavioural and family factors
- B. economic, religious and political factors
- C. dietary, sleep and exercise factors
- D. examination, syllabus and timetable factors
Q10. A class 8 boy in a rural Bihar school has suddenly become socially withdrawn, cries often, shows aggression and his grades have slipped. The teacher should FIRST
- A. publicly shame him to make him work harder
- B. watch these signs as possible depression and refer him to the school counsellor
- C. increase his homework load so he stays busy
- D. compare him with the topper of the class daily
Q11. Depression in adolescents is connected with a specific online phenomenon. Which is it?
- A. watching educational videos on YouTube
- B. cyber bullying through hate mail and offensive social-media posts
- C. using a calculator app for maths homework
- D. reading an online NCERT textbook
Q12. The juvenile-justice approach for minors in India is BEST described as one that emphasises
- A. harshest possible punishment for deterrence
- B. rehabilitation and reformation rather than punishment
- C. no action because minors cannot commit crimes
- D. lifetime imprisonment for any offence
Q13. A class 7 boy in an upper-primary school shows poor academic performance, frequent truancy and is now about to drop out. The teacher should treat this as
- A. a purely academic matter unrelated to other risks
- B. an early-warning sign linked to possible juvenile delinquency, calling for counselling and vocational guidance
- C. evidence that the child should be expelled
- D. a sign of high intelligence requiring acceleration
Q14. The term 'pathological internet use' refers to adolescent online behaviour that includes
- A. looking up reference notes for school homework
- B. compulsive visiting of adult sites, online gambling and shopping that the user cannot control
- C. sending one email to a teacher per week
- D. occasionally reading newspaper websites
Q15. The school's overall role in dealing with the six contemporary issues can be summed up by the maxim 'prevention is better than cure'. The school's twin role is therefore to
- A. punish the affected children and ignore the rest
- B. prevent issues in the larger group AND give early help to those showing symptoms
- C. wait for the police to handle every incident
- D. leave the entire matter to parents

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