Ten questions. Name: Score: _____ / 10
1. A course of conduct that causes someone alarm or distress can be:
A) Harassment, a criminal offence under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997
B) Always legal if done online
C) Only a school matter
D) Legal unless it happens in person
2. Editing a classmate's face onto explicit material is:
A) A harmless prank
B) A criminal offence, because the law covers sexually explicit deepfakes of real people
C) Legal if you don't share it
D) Only wrong if they find out
3. When an intimate image is shared without consent, who is in the wrong?
A) The person in the image
B) The person who shared it without consent
C) Both equally
D) Nobody, once it is out there
4. As a reputation attack spreads through a year group, what happens to the truth?
A) It gets stronger
B) It falls away, because people add reactions, not fact-checks
C) It stays exactly the same
D) It is verified by the crowd
5. What gives a pile-on its power?
A) The first person only
B) People continuing to amplify it
C) The platform's owners
D) The target's response
6. Abuse sent from an anonymous account or burner:
A) Can never be traced
B) Sits behind a real device and account data that can be traced when harm is serious
C) Is legal because it is anonymous
D) Is only traceable by the person's friends
7. Before blocking someone who is harassing you, you should:
A) Reply with a warning
B) Delete everything to move on
C) Screenshot the evidence
D) Change your own username
8. Why is retaliating a bad idea?
A) It never is
B) Your reply gets stripped of context and becomes the story
C) It breaks the app rules only
D) It takes too long
9. A tool that removes intimate images of under-18s from the internet, including deepfakes, is:
A) Report Remove, from Childline and the IWF
B) A police holding cell
C) The block button
D) A paid legal service only
10. A friend being targeted online has stopped coming to school and seems to be struggling to cope. The right response is:
A) Give them space and say nothing
B) Check on them, and bring in a trusted adult, because this may be about more than the abuse
C) Post publicly in their defence
D) Wait for them to ask for help
Answer Key (Teacher Copy)
1. A. Harassment is a real offence, and this cohort is old enough to commit it. Keep the tone corrective, not threatening. 2. B. Deepfakes are now explicitly criminal; naming it as a crime rather than a prank matters. 3. B. The blame-placement question. Answer it clearly and hold the line, because misdirected shame is what silences victims. 4. B. and 5. B. The mechanics of a pile-on, and the leverage point: amplification is the fuel, and every pupil controls their own share of it. 6. B. Deterrent for senders, hope for targets. 7. C. and 8. B. Evidence before blocking, and why retaliation backfires. 9. A. Report Remove, deepfakes included. 10. B. The wellbeing dimension. Sustained online abuse is a genuine risk factor for serious distress, so a friend who checks in and involves an adult may be the decisive intervention. If a pupil answers this from evident experience, follow up privately and involve the DSL.