Human Rights and Civil Liberties Quiz

What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

• A document written listing 25 rights people all over the world should gain at birth

• A document written listing 30 rights people all over the world should gain at birth

• A document written listing 30 rights given to citizens of any democratic nation

• A document written listing 25 rights given to citizens of any democratic nation

This was the first ruler in history to extend freedom and civil liberties to all his subjects regardless of race and social class.

• King Tut

• Cyrus the Great

• King John I

• President Abraham Lincoln

What is the United Nations?

• International organization that tries to find peaceful solutions to world problems

• An agreement signed by most countries in the world

• The United States court system

• Germany’s punishment for world war 2

This is an example of civil disobedience (refusing to obey a law you see as unconstitutional).

• The Civil War

• Destroying a police car

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Demonstrating in the streets and delaying traffic

Which of the following would not be considered a human rights violation?

• Using an excessive amount of force to place someone under arrest

• Not allowing certain people to vote based on gender or race

• Allowing all people the ability to work for equal pay

• Not paying someone to work on your potato farm for years without leaving.

What does universal mean?

• That human rights belong to all people, all over the world

• Because they can not be treated in isolation

• Universal, inalienable, interconnected, and indivisible and non discriminatory

• Because they are dependent on each other.

Hammurabi’s Code was written with 282 laws in between 1792 and 1750 BCE and is sometimes regarded as one of the oldest forms of human rights charters. Which of the following was one of the major points of this law code?

All of the following are examples of historical human rights violations EXCEPT for:

• Rwandan Genocide

• Slavery throughout the world

• Equal Voting Rights in the USA

• Armenian Genocide

This organization along with Eleanor Roosevelt passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

• The Treaty of Versailles

• The League of Nations

• The United Nations

• The Geneva Convention

In 1863, this document was signed by the president "declaring that all enslaved people be set free." Which of the following documents was this?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

• Constitution