Post-UTME English Language 2005 Objective — Question 2

[Passage: on juvenile delinquency - argues that delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if committed by adults (status offences like underage drinking, driving, smoking); the writer suggests such laws mainly serve to preserve adult privileges and prevent young people from enjoying certain freedoms, calling delinquency 'a weapon forged in adult minds against young people.'] If the world changed overnight

• A. there would be more delinquency laws
• B. delinquency would refer to all adult actionsCorrect
• C. delinquency would no more be a crime
• D. the world will be turned upside down