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# 5 Quiz

This short quiz is intended for you to review your understanding of this course. There are three questions each one relating to a particular section. You may wish to look back over each section before you complete the questions or try answering them first and looking back to review the points if necessary.

## Activity 4

About 30 minutes

1. Complete the following sentence by selecting the three words that you think apply:

Looking back to Section 2 will help you with this question.

### Comment

The learning that children experience within families is holistic, shared and companionable.

It is holistic because children learn many different things from one single experience. It is shared and companionable because children and family members learn from each other.

2. ‘Children’s experience in their families will be influenced by the conditions, traditions and beliefs of their community in the same way.’ Is this statement true or false?

True
False

### Comment

The statement is ‘False’ because cultural influences have many layers and their impact on children’s experiences are distilled by the ways individual family groups operate and the relationships between those closest to the child.

Looking back to Section 3 will help you with this question.

3. Complete the following sentence by selecting the word or phrase that you think applies.

Looking back to Section 4 will help you with this question.

### Comment

‘Stay and play’ sessions provide children with new play and social opportunities that they cannot or do not experience at home. Equally parents learn new things about their child as they are seeing them in a different environment. They can also access child-rearing advice and make social connections with other adults with young children from their community.

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