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Worksheets15th Refutal Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
As John Stuart Mill wrore about freedom of speech, which principle did he coin to describe what speech should be limited?
a)
Harm Principle
b)
Offence Principle
c)
Pain Principle
d)
Speech Principle
e)
Innocence principle
2.
In how many countries is same-sex marriage legal?
a)
5
b)
13
c)
16
d)
24
e)
29
3.
What is a land-locked country?
a)
A country that has a stalemate with one of its neighbhors.
b)
A country that has it's trade routes cut off.
c)
A country with highly restrictive physical features, like mountains.
d)
A country that is not recognized by the United Nations.
e)
A country that has no direct access to an ocean.
4.
Which is the largest land-locked country?
a)
Kazakhstan
b)
Mongolia
c)
Chad
d)
Niger
e)
Afghanistan
5.
Which three indicators are consolidated to form the Human Development Index?
a)
Infant mortality rate, life expectancy, literacy rate
b)
Fertility rate, gross domestic product, gini coefficient
c)
Per capita income, literacy rate, gini coefficient
d)
Life expectancy, education, per capita income
e)
Infant mortality rate, life expectancy, chld moratality rate
6.
Which country has the highest Human Development Index?
a)
United States of America
b)
Serbia
c)
Norway
d)
United Kingdom
e)
Ireland
7.
What is time poverty?
a)
Temporary poverty
b)
Poverty of people that have high income but no leisure time to use the income
c)
Poverty of people that are only poor because they are caring for elder relatives
d)
The period before a short deadline
e)
The stress that is related to a feeling of having wasted your time
8.
What is the goal of Rawl's Veil of ignorance?
a)
To show how humans are prone to bias
b)
To design society with the goal of minimizing suffering rather than maximizing pleasure
c)
To design society with the goal of maximizing pleasure rather than minimizing suffering
d)
To describe mysoginy within western weddings
e)
To explain the root of ignorance within politicians
9.
Four days ago UEFA suspended one of their referees for supposed racist language, what nationality was the referee?
a)
Spanish
b)
Italian
c)
Brazilian
d)
Russian
e)
Romanian
10.
How many school kidnappings has Nigeria had in the past 3 months?
a)
0
b)
1
c)
3
d)
8
e)
11
11.
The UK Government has made a U-turn decision, halting development for which project?
a)
Nuclear power station
b)
Fracking
c)
High speed railway
d)
Coal mine
e)
Hydroelectric dam
12.
Who wrote The Future of Socialism?
a)
Michael Foot
b)
Anthony Crosland
c)
Hugh Gaitskell
d)
Roy Jenkins
e)
George Brown
13.
The Montreal Protocol was one of the first times countries banded together to stop a long-term impending problem, what did they aim to stop?
a)
Mass Terrorist Attacks
b)
Depletion of the ozone layer
c)
The Cold War
d)
Famine in Africa and along the Middle East
e)
Radiation seepinig into European water sources
14.
Plato wrote about the Ring of Gyges, what ability did this ring bring to its wearer?
a)
Invisibility
b)
Flight
c)
Shape-shifting
d)
Mind-reading
e)
Super-strength
15.
Boris III was king of which country from 1918 to 1943?
a)
Bulgaria
b)
Romania
c)
Serbia
d)
Greece
e)
Hungary
16.
According to the Divine Right of Kings, where do monarchas get their power from?
a)
Their Citizens
b)
Ancestores
c)
Love and Fear
d)
Armies
e)
God
17.
Where was a formal separation of powers within government first introduced?
a)
Britain
b)
Revolutionary France
c)
Japan
d)
United States
e)
Russia
18.
What is a 'patrimonial' state?
a)
A state in which men monopolise power.
b)
A state in which key political actors exploit the system in order to enrich themselves and their allies.
c)
A state in which the ruler is seen as the father of his people.
d)
A state in which all forms of patronage are outlawed.
e)
A state in which politics, the military and the economy are all united and work together.
19.
The US approach to the Cold War was originally set out in...
a)
The Truman Doctrine.
b)
The Truman Show.
c)
The Marshall Plan.
d)
The Monroe Doctrine.
e)
The Fair Deal.
20.
Which country is this?
a)
Cuba
b)
Japan
c)
The Gambia
d)
Jamaica
e)
Nepal
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