Test your listening knowledge

Do you know how to protect your ears? Our ears do a very important job, and if we don’t keep them safe, we could damage the way we hear things. Take this quick quiz to find out just how much you know about hearing safety. Some of the questions have more than one right answer. Good luck!

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This boy is listening to music so loudly that he cannot hear his mother calling him.
What should he do?

Turn up the volume.

Ask what the right volume is for his hearing safety.

Lower the volume.

Stop listening to music.

This boy is mowing the lawn. He’s not wearing something that he should be wearing.
What is it he’s missing?

A hat.

Nothing, he’s totally fine.

Ear protection headphones.

His MP3 player ear buds so he can listen to music.

This boy is having trouble understanding his favorite TV show.
What can he do to help him understand what is being said?

Sit closer to the television.

Talk to his parents about his difficulty hearing. Maybe he needs another hearing test.

Turn on closed captioning.

Turn up the volume really loud.

This boy has been paying close attention in class all day so he can hear what’s being said, and he’s very tired.
What can he do to help himself in this situation?

Stare out the window until he feels better.

Talk to his teacher about taking a listening break, or let his parents know he may need to have listening breaks during the day.

Put his head down on the desk and take a nap.

Get up and leave the classroom.

This girl is having trouble hearing while wearing her hearing aid.
What can she do to find out why her hearing aid may not be working?

Take the hearing aid off and put it away.

Ignore it. Maybe it will start working on its own later.

Check to see if her ear mold needs to be cleared of wax.

Change the batteries.

This girl is having trouble understanding what her friends are saying.
What can she do to help them know what she needs to be able to hear them?

Ignore them. They probably don’t like her.

Find something to do by herself. It’s easier than trying to listen to the other kids.

Explain to them that she has a hard time understanding what they’re saying and ask them to repeat themselves or slow down, when necessary.

Tell her parents her friends ignore her.

This girl is having trouble understanding the words in a movie at the theater.
What can she do to help change that?

Tell her mom she wants to leave. It’s not fun when you can’t understand things.

Ask her mom to tell her what’s being said.

Ask her mom about an assistive listening device to help her hear better.

Don’t say anything. It’s not worth making a fuss.

This boy didn’t understand the coach’s instructions at the beginning of practice.
How can he fix that?

Sit out practice on the sidelines and say he doesn’t want to play.

Talk to his coach to let him know he missed the instructions.

Tell his parents he wants to quit the soccer team. It’s no fun anyway.

Ask a teammate which drills the team is working on.

This girl loves to swim, but it’s not fun because she can’t play with the other kids when she can’t wear her hearing aids in the pool.
What can she do about this problem?

Swim by herself and ignore the other kids.

Talk to her parents about how she can explain her hearing loss and her listening needs to her friends at the pool.

Find a couple of friends to play with in a small group.

Tell her parents she hates going to the pool, and doesn’t want to go anymore.

This brother and sister are playing together at the park, but the sister didn’t hear her dad call them when it was time to leave.
Her dad was upset with her for ignoring him. What can she do to explain this to her dad?

Get mad. He won’t listen anyway.

Tell him she didn’t hear him calling her.

Ask him to get closer to her next time he needs to talk with her.

Tell him it’s her brother’s fault.