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# 6 End-of-course quiz

Now you have completed this course on Climate justice for the next generation, have a go at the end-of-course quiz to test your knowledge.

## End-of-course quiz

Allow 30 minutes

- 1. UNCRC stands for:

Universal Notions of Child Rescue and Care
Unlimited National Concern for Rescued Children
Unified National Council on Remembering Childhood
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

- 2. The UNCRC has been ratified by every country in the world except one. Which one is it ?

Somalia
USA
UK
Norway

- 3.

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- 4. The fundamental principle behind the UNCRC is that the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. True or false?

True
False

- 5. Climate change is a children’s rights crisis because:

It only concerns children and adults are unaffected
Climate justice affects adults and climate change affects children
It violates children’s rights under the UNCRC
Children are more naturally environmentally sensitive.

- 6. Which of the following are quotes from Greta Thunberg? Tick all that apply.

‘If I have children or grandchildren, maybe they will spend that day with me. Maybe they will ask me about you, the people who were around back in 2018. Maybe they will ask why you didn’t do anything while there still was time to act.’
‘I will never leave Sweden again until the climate change emergency is over.’
‘You are failing us. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.’
‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.’
‘We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.’
‘The world is doomed.’

- 7. Tick all that apply.

  Nexus is:

An oil company
A way of understanding the interconnectedness of children and the environment
An NGO dedicated to reversing climate change
A way of understanding the different lenses researchers use to look at children and the environment.

- 8. Answer True or False to the following statements.

  Children and young people generally aren’t very interested in the role of plastics in their lives.

True
False

Bio sampling of young people’s breath and urine revealed high levels of plastics in their bodies.

True
False

Bio sampling of young people’s breath and urine revealed small amounts of titanium and aluminium levels in their bodies.

True
False

Chemicals in children’s bodies may have come from local industries but they are also found in products directly targeted at children including sunscreen.

True
False
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