Sexual Harassment Quiz

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Understanding Sexual Harassment

Take our quiz to test your knowledge on sexual harassment, including definitions, examples, and appropriate actions to take in different situations. This quiz is designed to empower you with the information needed to recognize and address sexual harassment effectively.

Learn about:

The safeguarding team at your school.
What constitutes sexual harassment.
How to respond to potentially harmful situations.

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What is the definition of sexual harassment?

Behaviour characterized by the making of unwelcome and inappropriate sexual remarks or physical advances in a workplace or other professional or social situation.

Any unwanted sexual contact.

The act or crime of willfully and repeatedly following or harassing another person in circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to fear injury or death.

Which of the following are examples of sexual harassment?

Asking someone for their number.

Making sexual noises, kissing sounds or whistling at someone on public transport.

Repeatedly asking someone out who isn't interested.

Asking personal questions of a sexual nature.

Telling someone they look nice today.

Repeatedly commenting on a person's appearance or clothing.

Purposely showing explicit or inappropriate images to someone.

Telling someone their skirt is hitched up.

Rubbing, patting, hugging, adjusting someone's clothing.

Katy is 11 and gets the school bus home. Every day a boy her age sits next to her without asking. If someone else is sat there, he makes them move. He looks at her legs and she often catches him trying to take photos of her. Sometimes he puts his arm round her to take selfies. If she says anything he laughs it off as a joke. Katy feels uncomfortable but doesn't think she can tell anyone because he hasn't really done anything wrong. What could Katy do?

Nothing. He is harmless.

Ask a friend or someone on the bus to sit next to her so that he can't.

Tell her parents/carer.

Tell a member of the safeguarding team, tutor, HOY or another trusted adult at her school.

Robert is 17 and has just started a part time job in a fast food restaurant. He likes it there and has made lots of friends. There is a manager there who is very attractive but she is much older than Robert. She often mentions how good he looks in his uniform and when he is working at a counter, she will push herself against him, even though there is plenty of space to get through. She makes jokes about being a cougar and often speaks loudly about her own experiences with younger men. She has now started texting him, asking what he is up to when he is not at work and has sent pictures of herself in her underwear. She is now asking him to send her explicit photos of himself. What should Robert do?

Quit his job.

Make a formal complaint to Head Office/ follow the company's Whistle-Blowing policy.

Tell his parents.

Refer the harassment and nude images to the police.

Tell a member of the safeguarding team, tutor, HOY or another trusted adult at her school.

Sam is a trans teenager who has just changed their pronouns and gender. Sam has been accused of sexual harassment from other students because they don't have any other choice but to use the toilets that are designated to their birth sex. This has caused friction between Sam and some of the other students. Sam often gets called names such as 'pervert', 'gay' and 'freak'. This is affecting Sam's mental health. What could Sam do?

Try to avoid using the toilets during busy periods of the day.

Speak to the safeguarding team.

Speak to SLT about the need for trans toilets.

Ignore the behaviour of the other students.

In the UK it is an offence to make, distribute, possess or show any indecent images of anyone aged under 18, even if the content was created with the consent of that young person. True or false?

True

False

Tick the following if you think they are illegal in the UK.

A child (under 18) sharing a sexual image with their peer (also under 18).

A child (under 18) sharing a sexual image created by another child with a peer or an adult.

A child (under 18) in possession of a sexual image created by a child (under 18).

In the moment, which actions/phrases could you use to keep yourself safe?

Call 999 if you feel in immediate danger.

If possible, move yourself to a more public area/seat.

Approach and confront them aggressively.

Go into a nearby shop and ask for help.

Leave me alone. Do not whistle/touch me.

Laugh and go along with it.

Appear confident and calm. Be assertive.

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