Developing Creativity in Adolescents — Quiz

Q1. A Class 8 boy in Lucknow keeps cracking witty jokes that connect Maths formulas with cricket scores. This humour is

• A. A discipline problem that suppresses creativity.
• B. A natural component of verbal creativity.
• C. Proof of low intelligence quotient.
• D. An indicator of imitation, not originality.

Q2. Davis's study makes which point about creativity across ages?

• A. Creativity rises steadily with age and education.
• B. About 90% of five-year-olds are creative but only about 2% of adults are — creativity is suppressed as we grow.
• C. Creativity is fixed at birth and never changes.
• D. Adults are more creative than children because of experience.

Q3. A truck loaded with goods gets stuck below a low bridge in a town. A Class 7 boy suggests deflating the tyres slightly so the truck can pass. This is

• A. Convergent thinking limited to one fixed answer.
• B. Creative problem solving — a novel solution showing originality.
• C. Imitation of a textbook example.
• D. Rote application of a learned formula.

Q4. Before solving the king's crown problem, Archimedes recalled what he knew about water displacement and density. In the five-step model, this stage is

• A. Verification
• B. Flash
• C. Preparation
• D. Withdrawal from the problem

Q5. Archimedes shouted 'Eureka! Eureka!' and ran through the streets of Athens after a sudden insight. This corresponds to the stage called

• A. Concentrated attention
• B. Flash
• C. Preparation
• D. Verification

Q6. Why is the five-step sequence of creative thinking emphasised?

• A. To prove that creativity is purely inborn and cannot be learned.
• B. To show creativity follows a systematic process that can be cultivated in the classroom.
• C. To establish that only geniuses can be creative.
• D. To replace problem solving with rote memorisation.

Q7. Under the 4P approach, the 'process' label looks at creativity through the lens of

• A. Marketability of the final product.
• B. Convergent vs divergent thinking processes used by the creator.
• C. Childhood family circumstances of the creator.
• D. Number of awards won by the creator.

Q8. A teacher in a Bihar upper-primary school notices that her highest-IQ Class 8 student gives only textbook answers, while a moderate-IQ classmate keeps suggesting unusual ideas. This is explained by saying

• A. Creativity and IQ are perfectly correlated, so the observation must be a mistake.
• B. High IQ does not guarantee high creativity — the correlation is only about 0.36.
• C. Only the high-IQ child can be creative; the other student is merely impulsive.
• D. Creativity depends only on heredity, never on personality.

Q9. Which classroom condition is MOST likely to suppress an adolescent learner's creativity?

• A. A flexible timetable that allows project-based learning.
• B. A rigid school climate with single-answer examinations and no tolerance for unusual responses.
• C. Open-ended questions that invite multiple responses.
• D. A teacher who respects pupils' ideas and tolerates some disorder.

Q10. Osborn gives four principles of the IDEATION stage of brainstorming. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

• A. Free-wheeling — any idea is welcome, even wild ones.
• B. No criticism of ideas during the green-light stage.
• C. Quantity is wanted — the more ideas, the better.
• D. Each idea must be marked right or wrong immediately.

Q11. A Class 7 teacher in Rampur asks her pupils to list every feature of an ordinary calendar — its size, paper, colour, dates, hooks — and then change each feature to design something new. This technique is called

• A. Brainstorming
• B. Attribute listing
• C. Synectics
• D. Provocative questioning

Q12. A Class 8 SST teacher asks: 'What would happen if all petrol on earth suddenly disappeared overnight?' This is an example of

• A. A redefining question (clock as calendar).
• B. A consequences question that forces divergent thinking.
• C. A factual recall question with one right answer.
• D. An attribute-listing exercise.

Q13. Torrance and Myers's first principle for fostering creativity in the classroom is

• A. Punish unusual responses to maintain order.
• B. Respect the children's ideas and show that their ideas have value.
• C. Insist on one correct answer for every question.
• D. Replace open-ended activities with copying exercises.

Q14. Which Class 7 classroom task would best foster creativity in adolescents?

• A. Copying the chapter summary from the textbook into notebooks.
• B. Listing as many possible uses as one can for a discarded plastic bottle.
• C. Reciting the multiplication table from 2 to 20 aloud.
• D. Marking the only correct option in a true/false drill.

Q15. In an 'unusual uses of a brick' test, Riya gives 30 uses — but 28 are about building (wall, pillar, step, boundary…) and only 2 are different (paperweight, doorstop). Riya scores HIGH on which ability but LOW on which?

• A. High originality, low fluency
• B. High fluency, low flexibility
• C. High elaboration, low persistency
• D. High inquisitiveness, low originality