Ten questions. Think before you circle. Name: Score: _____ / 10
1. How many protected characteristics are listed in the Equality Act 2010?
A) Five
B) Seven
C) Nine
D) Twelve
2. Which of these is a protected characteristic?
A) Football team
B) Religion or belief
C) Music taste
D) Being rich or poor
3. What makes a hate crime different from the same crime without hate?
A) Nothing, they are treated identically
B) Hostility to what the victim is can mean a tougher sentence
C) Hate crimes are not really crimes
D) Only the location differs
4. A hate incident that is not a crime:
A) Cannot be reported to anyone
B) Should still be reported, because police record patterns and patterns reveal escalation
C) Is the victim's own problem
D) Becomes a crime after three times automatically
5. Why is hate speech called a "message crime"?
A) It usually happens in messages
B) It targets one person but is meant to be heard by everyone who shares that characteristic
C) It only counts online
D) The police send a message afterwards
6. Is all offensive speech illegal in the UK?
A) Yes, being offensive is a crime
B) No. The criminal line sits at threats, harassment and stirring up hatred
C) Only online speech is illegal
D) Only speech about celebrities is protected
7. A lot of hateful online content is dressed up as jokes because:
A) It is genuinely harmless comedy
B) Jokes get shared, outrage gets paid, and humour launders the contempt
C) The law requires jokes
D) Nobody knows why
8. The laugh after a cruel "joke" is best described as:
A) Harmless
B) The fuel that keeps it going
C) Required politeness
D) Nothing to do with you
9. Which of these is a realistic upstander move for someone your age?
A) Not laughing and not sharing
B) A private supportive message to the person targeted
C) Reporting the content and telling staff about patterns
D) All of the above
10. Where can hate crimes and incidents be reported to police online?
A) True Vision, at report-it.org.uk
B) Any shopping website
C) They cannot be reported online
D) Only through a solicitor
Answer Key (Teacher Copy)
1. C. Nine. Having pupils recall even five or six from memory is a solid retrieval exercise. 2. B. The wrong options are deliberately things people do get grief about, which sets up the distinction: plenty of unkindness is not discrimination in law, and the lesson's ladder handles the difference. 3. B. Sentencing uplift for hostility based on race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or disability. 4. B. The perception-based recording principle. Reporting is not "making a fuss"; it is how the system sees patterns before they become something worse. 5. B. The mechanism that turns "just words" into something pupils can size correctly. 6. B. Being accurate here buys credibility for everything else. Two bars: legal, and decent. 7. B. The machine question. Pupils who can describe the engagement model are notably more resistant to it. 8. B. Audience withdrawal is the recurring power move across this whole series. 9. D. The full menu, and every item is deliverable by a 13-year-old without heroics. 10. A. True Vision, including third-party reporting on behalf of someone else.