Post-UTME English Language 2005 Objective — Question 3

[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.'] When young people make and enforce laws

• A. the responsibility will be too heavy on their shoulders
• B. they would retaliate against the adults.Correct