Skip to content

Quiz: Personal Safety and Refusal Skills

Test your understanding of influences, safety awareness, boundaries, and refusal skills with these review questions.

1. Which four things does this chapter identify as major influences on health behavior?

  1. Weather, homework, sports, and pets
  2. Family, peers, culture, and media/technology
  3. Money, grades, distance, and time
  4. Teachers, buses, lunch, and recess
Show Answer

The correct answer is B. Family, peers, culture, and media/technology are the four major influences that shape the choices a person makes about health and safety. None of these influences are automatically good or bad — recognizing them is the first step toward deciding, on purpose, whether to follow them.

Concept Tested: Influences On Health Behavior

2. Someone online asks a student to keep a conversation secret from their parents and asks for the student's home address. What should this signal to the student?

  1. That the person online must be a family friend
  2. That it is fine as long as the student does not share a photo too
  3. That the student should wait a few days before deciding what to do
  4. That this is harmful technology behavior, and the student should stop responding and tell a trusted adult
Show Answer

The correct answer is D. Asking for personal information and asking to keep a secret from a trusted adult are classic warning signs of harmful technology behavior. The response is always the same: stop responding, do not delete the message, and tell a trusted adult right away.

Concept Tested: Harmful Technology Behavior

3. What is situational awareness?

  1. Paying attention to your surroundings, the people nearby, and how a situation is unfolding
  2. Being afraid of every new place you visit
  3. A rule that says you must always have an adult with you
  4. Ignoring your surroundings so you can focus on one thing
Show Answer

The correct answer is A. Situational awareness is a calm habit of checking in with your surroundings — noticing who is nearby, whether you know a safe way out, and how the mood of a situation feels — similar to looking both ways before crossing a street.

Concept Tested: Situational Awareness

  1. Wait to see if the situation gets worse before doing anything
  2. Argue until the other person agrees with you
  3. Notice the uneasy feeling in your body and trust it
  4. Ask everyone nearby whether they think it's actually unsafe
Show Answer

The correct answer is C. A simple plan for exiting an unsafe situation starts with noticing the feeling — your body often signals unsafe before your mind fully understands why. You never need a "good enough" reason to leave; trusting your instinct is reason enough.

Concept Tested: Exiting Unsafe Situations

5. Which of these is an example of a personal boundary?

  1. A rule that everyone must have exactly the same comfort level about everything
  2. Deciding whether to lend a favorite item to a classmate
  3. A grade a teacher gives on a test
  4. The weather forecast for the weekend
Show Answer

The correct answer is B. Personal boundaries are the limits a person sets about what they are comfortable with regarding their body, belongings, time, and information. Deciding whether to lend an item is a boundary about belongings, and everyone's comfort level can be different.

Concept Tested: Personal Boundaries

6. A cousin keeps touching Amara's hair without asking, and it makes her uncomfortable. Which is the best example of setting a boundary?

  1. Never speaking to that cousin again
  2. Quietly avoiding the cousin at every family event without saying anything
  3. Yelling at the cousin in front of the whole family
  4. Calmly saying, "Please don't touch my hair without asking."
Show Answer

The correct answer is D. Setting a boundary means clearly and respectfully telling another person what you are, or are not, comfortable with. A boundary does not need to be angry or dramatic — it can be calm, short, and direct, like "Please don't touch my hair without asking."

Concept Tested: Setting Boundaries

7. What is a warning sign?

  1. A behavior or detail that signals a person or situation might be unsafe
  2. A grade that is lower than expected
  3. A rule about how to line up for recess
  4. A type of nutrition label
Show Answer

The correct answer is A. A warning sign is a behavior or detail, like being asked to keep a secret from a trusted adult or being asked to go somewhere alone, that signals a person or situation might be unsafe. It is a signal to slow down and consider getting help.

Concept Tested: Warning Sign

8. A classmate tells Devon, "Everyone else is skipping the safety rule, so you should too." What is happening here?

  1. Devon is reading a nutrition label
  2. Devon is demonstrating situational awareness
  3. Devon is experiencing peer pressure
  4. Devon is being taught a new skill by a teacher
Show Answer

The correct answer is C. Peer pressure is the feeling of being pushed, directly or indirectly, by people your own age to do something you might not otherwise choose to do. "Everyone else is doing it" is a very common peer-pressure comment.

Concept Tested: Peer Pressure

9. One classmate suggests trying a new snack at lunch. Another classmate pressures a friend to skip wearing a bike helmet "because it looks silly." How are these two situations different?

  1. They are not different at all — both need the exact same response
  2. The snack suggestion is low-risk, while skipping a helmet is pressure toward an unsafe choice that calls for a refusal skill
  3. The helmet situation is actually the safer one of the two
  4. Neither situation is an example of peer pressure
Show Answer

The correct answer is B. Peer pressure can push someone toward a harmless choice, like trying a new food, or toward an unsafe choice, like skipping a safety rule. Recognizing which kind of pressure you are feeling helps you decide whether a refusal skill is needed.

Concept Tested: Peer Pressure

10. A friend keeps asking Priya to skip wearing her helmet, even after she already said no once. Which refusal skill is Priya using if she calmly repeats, "No thanks. No thanks. No thanks."?

  1. Blaming a rule
  2. Suggesting an alternative
  3. Walking away
  4. The broken record
Show Answer

The correct answer is D. The broken record refusal skill means repeating the same short, calm refusal no matter what the other person says. You do not need a new excuse each time — repeating the same phrase is often the most effective response to continued pressure.

Concept Tested: Refusal Skill