Developing Creativity in Adolescents — Hard

Q1. Read the two statements and choose the correct option: I. A Class 7 student who calls a Potato-Tomato combination 'Pomato' is showing verbal creativity by establishing a new relationship between two known words. II. The same act would be classified as imitation because both words already exist in the dictionary.

• A. Both I and II are correct.
• B. Only I is correct; II is wrong because creativity is defined as combining two or more unrelated words/ideas to give a new answer.
• C. Only II is correct; combining existing words can never be creative.
• D. Both I and II are wrong.

Q2. Assertion (A): When a teacher asked Class 7 pupils where the 'third eye' should be, a student replied 'in the tip of the forefinger' — this is treated as a creative response. Reason (R): The reply establishes a new, useful relationship (touching to see) rather than repeating a religious or textbook answer. Choose the correct option

• A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
• B. Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
• C. A is true but R is false.
• D. A is false but R is true.

Q3. Gauss, asked to find the sum of 1 to 100, paired 1+99=100, 2+98=100 and so on, kept 50 and 100 aside, and got the answer quickly. This anecdote argues that

• A. Gauss must have copied the method from a textbook in advance.
• B. Mathematical short-cuts are imitation, not creativity.
• C. A creative learner restructures a known problem into new relationships instead of following the routine teacher-dictated path.
• D. Only inborn genius can solve such problems; teaching makes no difference.

Q4. A Class 8 student tackling a difficult ratio problem sits quietly for 20 minutes — eyes on the question, mind moving from known formulas towards an unknown step. In the five-step model, this stage is best described as

• A. Verification — checking an already-found answer in the laboratory.
• B. Withdrawal from the problem — letting the unconscious mind work while the body does something else.
• C. Concentrated attention — focused mental energy moving from the known zone to the unknown zone.
• D. Flash — the sudden insight when the answer becomes clear.

Q5. After his Eureka moment, Archimedes returned to his laboratory and 'struggled with different cubes for hours or months together' to confirm the principle. Which of these statements is NOT correct about this stage?

• A. It is called verification and is the fifth step of creative thinking.
• B. It involves systematic laboratory toil to test the sudden insight.
• C. It happens BEFORE the flash, not after.
• D. Without verification, the creative idea remains unconfirmed.

Q6. Edison (dismissed from school), Einstein (lagging in Science and Mathematics), Keats, Shelley, Edgar Rice Burroughs (committing spelling mistakes) and James Watt (called 'Lazy Bugger') are cited to make WHICH pedagogical point about adolescents in Classes VI-VIII?

• A. Creative learners should be removed from formal schooling because schools cannot support them.
• B. Rigid social-control mechanisms in schools suppress creative sparks; teachers must congratulate and protect such learners, not label them.
• C. Spelling mistakes and weak marks are reliable signs of low creativity.
• D. Only Western examples count as creative; Indian children do not show such patterns.

Q7. The radio and the tape-recorder, both 'very original' ideas in their time, are not regarded as original today. Under the 4P approach, this observation belongs to which approach AND illustrates which property?

• A. Process approach — creativity is divergent.
• B. Person approach — IQ and creativity are correlated.
• C. Product approach — originality of a creative product is time-specific.
• D. Press approach — childhood environment shapes creators.

Q8. If a parent is transferred every 3 years and the student moves along, the student benefits from the point of view of

• A. Intelligence
• B. Reflective thinking
• C. Creativity
• D. Logical thinking

Q9. An upper-primary teacher describes a Class 8 boy as 'dominant, self-confident, sharp-witted, outspoken, demanding, and verbally fluent.' These traits, taken together, suggest that the child is likely to be

• A. Below average in creativity and needing remedial classes.
• B. A creative child whose personality matches the unit's profile of creators.
• C. An undisciplined child who must be silenced in class.
• D. A child suited only to rote subjects, not creative tasks.

Q10. A Class 7 teacher asks: 'A town hidden beneath the mud has been found. What might have been the reasons it went underground?' This type of question is called

• A. Redefining question
• B. Hypothetical question (if-you-were-the-manager type)
• C. Divergent question that breaks the one-question-one-answer pattern
• D. Provocative question (Gandhi-today type)

Q11. Riddle construction or solving is similar to which technique?

• A. Brain storming
• B. Synectics — making the strange familiar and the familiar strange
• C. Attribute listing and changing
• D. Lateral thinking

Q12. Read the two statements and choose the correct option: I. 'What would Gandhiji have done if he had lived today?' — this is a provocative question. II. 'If you suddenly become an ant, what would happen?' — this is a redefining question.

• A. Only I is correct; II is wrong because the ant prompt is hypothetical, not redefining.
• B. Only II is correct; the Gandhiji prompt is divergent, not provocative.
• C. Both I and II are correct.
• D. Both I and II are wrong.

Q13. Edward de Bono hypothesised that 'we do not teach our children to think.' This is especially true in India because

• A. Indian children naturally lack creative potential.
• B. We insist on rote learning to pass examinations and tests, turning classes into 'lesson-hearing rooms' rather than centres of inquiry.
• C. Indian teachers refuse to use any technique developed abroad.
• D. Lateral thinking is forbidden under the National Education Policy.

Q14. 'Imaginary stories must be told in the classroom by the teacher.' The stated REASON for this recommendation is to

• A. Replace the prescribed textbook with story books.
• B. Enable students to have the potential to become a leader today.
• C. Test the students' memory of folk tales.
• D. Reduce the teacher's lesson-planning workload.

Q15. When a Class 8 student gives a clever, novel and uncommon response on a creativity test, the ability being shown is

• A. Fluency
• B. Flexibility
• C. Originality
• D. Persistency