Citizenship Human Rights quiz

What are human rights?

• Rights only the richest are entitled to.
• Rights that all people have simply because they are human.
• A responsibility that people have as humans.
• Rights that only children have.

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Which of these BEST describes the basic idea of Human Rights?

• Each one of us no matter who we are or where we are born is entitled to the same basic rights and freedoms.

• You have the right to define yourself as any race, religion, or belief you choose.

• You have the right to be human and live your life the way you want.

• You have the right to own a house and personal property

Which international peacekeeping organization created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

• The United Nations

• The World Health Organization

• NATO

• The Organization of American States

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What major world conflict prompted the need for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the United Nations itself?

• World War I

• World War II

• The Cold War

• The Vietnam War

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What do you think are a person's basic rights?

• To live in a city

• To feed, to health, to be free, to be educated, to have fair trial

• To change jobs

• To get married and have children

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Why did the United Nations decide that children deserved the special protections listed in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child?

• because of their age
• because of their poverty
• because of their inability to work
• because of their status as migrants

Which one of these rights does the Declaration of the Rights of the Child guarantee to every child?

• the right to choose whether to attend school
• the right to receive an elementary education
• the right to decide which school to attend
• the right to get a free college education

According to the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which one is a right of all children?

• the right to leave home

• the right to a lawyer

• the right to work

• the right to play

Which of these means available to all people all over the world?

• Agreement

• Inconceivable

• Universal

• Total

Which children are covered by the Declaration of the Rights of the Child?

• all children
• poor children
• American children
• children of Western nations