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Alcohol Awareness

Quiz and Answer Key · KS4 (Ages 14-16)
KCSIE 2026 ALIGNEDWORKING TOGETHER 2026COLLEGE OF POLICING APP

Ten questions. Name: Score: _____ / 10

1. Alcohol is:
A) A stimulant
B) A depressant that slows reactions and judgement
C) Not a drug
D) Only a drug in spirit form
2. Which goes first when someone drinks?
A) Their memory
B) Their judgement, often before they feel truly drunk
C) Their eyesight
D) Nothing goes until they are very drunk
3. Why does the same drink affect a 15-year-old more than an adult?
A) It doesn't
B) Smaller body, still-developing brain, and no learned sense of their limit
C) Teenagers drink faster, nothing else
D) Adults have special enzymes children lack
4. Police see an under-18 drinking in a park. They can:
A) Do nothing
B) Confiscate the alcohol and take them home
C) Only watch
D) Arrest everyone automatically
5. The "multiplication effect" means alcohol:
A) Makes drinks stronger over time
B) Multiplies whatever is already happening: arguments, risks, bad situations
C) Only affects large groups
D) Doubles your tolerance
6. Someone who is very drunk and sexual activity:
A) Can still give valid consent
B) Cannot give valid consent, and taking advantage is rape in law
C) It depends what they said earlier
D) It is fine if you are drunk too
7. A friend has passed out after drinking heavily. Someone suggests putting them to bed. You should:
A) Agree, sleep helps
B) Put them in the recovery position, call 999, and stay with them
C) Lie them on their back
D) Wait an hour first
8. Why can someone get worse after they stop drinking?
A) They can't, the danger ends with the last drink
B) Alcohol already swallowed keeps absorbing into the blood
C) Only if they drink water
D) Because of the cold
9. The single most protective habit on a night out is:
A) Drinking on an empty stomach
B) Deciding in advance how you get home and staying with your friends
C) Keeping up with everyone else
D) Not telling anyone where you are
10. "I'm not drinking tonight" requires:
A) A detailed excuse
B) No justification at all. It is a complete sentence
C) A doctor's note
D) Permission from the group

Answer Key (Teacher Copy)

1. B. and 2. B. Depressant, and judgement first. Together these reframe the whole risk picture: the danger is highest before people feel drunk. 3. B. Biology plus inexperience, not weakness. 4. B. Confiscation powers are routine. 5. B. The multiplier concept, which transfers to every night out they will have. 6. B. The consent point, stated plainly. This is central at KS4 and links to KCSIE 2026's child-on-child sexual violence content. Handle any disclosure it prompts through your safeguarding procedures. 7. B. and 8. B. The emergency sequence and the reason someone deteriorates after passing out. Reinforce that calling for a friend never gets them in trouble. 9. B. Planning beats willpower, and it is teachable. 10. B. Giving pupils permission to decline without justification is quietly one of the most useful things the lesson does.