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Human Rights

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

The first known document to assert individual human rights was written in the year 1215 and was called:

a)

the Right to Live

b)

The Magna Chart for Human Rights

c)

The Magna Carta

d)

The Basic Rights of Man

2.

What world situation preceded and led to the creation and establishment of the United Nations?

a)

The building of the Berlin Wall

b)

The Great Oil Spill of 1894

c)

World War I

d)

World War II

3.

Who was the chair of the United Nations Human Rights commission and the driving force in creating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

a)

Michelle O Bama

b)

Hilary Clinton

c)

Edith Roosevelt

d)

Eleanor Roosevelt

4.

What is the United Nations?

a)

An international organisation founded in 1921 to promote world peace and prevent future wars

b)

An international organisation founded in 1940 to promote world peace and prevent future wars

c)

IAn international organisation founded in 1918 to promote world peace and prevent future wars

d)

An international organisation founded in 1945 to promote world peace and prevent future wars

5.

What is the name of the document that lists the 30 human rights?

a)

The Human Rights Declaration

b)

The Human Rights Declaration for Mankind

c)

The Universal Acknowledgement of Rights for All

d)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

6.

The word RIGHTS means:

a)

You are legally allowed to insist on your own choices being respected

b)

Things you are legally allowed to have or freedoms to be, do or have something

c)

Someone who is right-handed

d)

Things you are legally allowed to do or have and can insist on

7.

The term HUMAN RIGHTS means:

a)

Rules you have to follow because you are human

b)

Freedoms granted to adults

c)

The rights you have because you are human

d)

Special privileges given to the majority of people

8.

The word declaration means:

a)

the act of announcing or making something known

b)

A document stating that another person has taken possession of something of yours

c)

To make something, such as a subject or topic, more interesting

d)

from ancient time, to make a public promise

9.

Each human right comes with personal responsibility. What is your responsibility regarding your right to an education?

a)

You get to choose your school and wear the full prescribed uniform

b)

You work hard and treat the people and school with respect

c)

You provide your own lunch and bring some extra in case someone doesn't have any

d)

You provide your own stationery and other people are expected to do the same

10.

The word fair means

a)

according to what is right, following the rules, not based on prejudice or meanness

b)

a festival in which people of different races congregate as equals

c)

according to what is right as you interpret the rules, not based on prejudice or meanness

d)

not heavy or hard to carry

11.

The word detained means

a)

held back from attacking something which has harmed you

b)

the condition of remaining calm despite commotion

c)

holding in your laughter, even though you find something funny

d)

kept from going, held back, delayed

12.

Human rights include having equality before the law

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The word discrimination means

a)

the process by which a criminal is made honest and productive

b)

a fair difference in treatment, denying equal rights to certain groups of people with good reason

c)

treating people differently and spreading false information about others

d)

an unfair difference in treatment, denying equal rights to certain groups of people

14.

The word equal means

a)

having the same status, rights or opportunities as other people

b)

having the same opinion as others

c)

having the same citizen status, rights or opportunities as people in other countries

d)

a person who was born of parents from two distinct ethnic backgrounds

15.

The word violation means

a)

abuse of human rights

b)

using violence in order to maintain justice

c)

breaking a law, rule, agreement, promise, etc.

d)

abuse of people