History Of Human Rights Movements Set 3

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Q1 | One of the first examples of a codification of laws that contain references toindividual rights is the tablet of……………...
  • hammurabi
  • socrates
  • plato
  • thomas hobbes
Answer: hammurabi
Q2 | British Magna Carta was in the year………………
  • 1212
  • 1213
  • 1215
  • 1325
Answer: 1215
Q3 | French Declaration of the Rights of Man was in the year…………..
  • 1669
  • 1678
  • 1689
  • 1789
Answer: 1789
Q4 | American Bill of Rights, ……………….
  • 1779
  • 1789
  • 1798
  • 1879
Answer: 1789
Q5 | ………………… came up with the ‘social contract theory’, that stated that allindividuals in a society had entered into a contract to form a civilized society in exchange for the government giving them equality.
  • rousseau
  • immanuel kant
  • john stuart mill
  • aristotle
Answer: rousseau
Q6 | In his book ‘On Liberty’, …………strongly disagrees with utilitarianism, and sees it as a type of tyranny by the majority.
  • james mill
  • karl marx
  • friedrich engels
  • ronald dworkin
Answer: james mill
Q7 | Madam Justice ………….was appointed in 1996 by the United Nations Security Council to be the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
  • louise arbour
  • john rawls
  • jean kambanda
  • james mill
Answer: louise arbour
Q8 | ……………was able to successfully arrest and convict Jean Kambanda, thenprime minister of Rwanda, for his role in the genocides in 1994.
  • judge arbour
  • john rawls
  • james mill
  • jean kambanda
Answer: judge arbour
Q9 | ……………… was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India to Hinduparents.
  • mahatma gandhi
  • thomas paine
  • john stuart mill
  • g.w.f. hegel
Answer: mahatma gandhi
Q10 | …………. had an arranged marriage with Kasturbai Makani, when both ofthem were 13 years old.
  • john stuart mill
  • thomas paine
  • mahatma gandhi
  • g.w.f. hegel
Answer: mahatma gandhi
Q11 | ………………. sailed to South Africa as part of his work for a Muslim legalfirm, where he experiences discrimination first hand, and worked to improve the rights of immigrant Indians.
  • mahatma gandhi
  • martin luther king jr
  • francisco de vitoria
  • bartolomé de las casas.
Answer: mahatma gandhi
Q12 | In January 1948,………….. was tragically killed by an assassin opposed to his belief in passive resistance, and tolerance of all people.
  • mahatma gandhi
  • martin luther king jr
  • francisco de vitoria
  • bartolomé de las casas.
Answer: mahatma gandhi
Q13 | Martin Luther King Jr.was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement in ……………… during the mid 20th century.
  • america
  • south africa
  • soviet union
  • yugoslavia
Answer: america
Q14 | ……………was elected leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association,which boycotted the transit system in Alabama to combat racial segregation.
  • martin luther king jr
  • karl marx
  • francisco de vitoria
  • bartolomé de las casas.
Answer: martin luther king jr
Q15 | Martin Luther King Jr organized the Southern Christian LeadershipConference to publicize the need for civil rights in…………….
  • america
  • britain
  • spain
  • china
Answer: america
Q16 | Martin Luther King Jr was also instrumental in bringing forth the passage ofthe Civil Rights Act in ………………..
  • 1934
  • 1939
  • 1954
  • 1964
Answer: 1964
Q17 | …………….. was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the InternationalCommission of Jurists in Geneva from 1987 to 1990.
  • francisco de vitoria
  • friedrich nietzsche
  • mary robinson
  • bartolomé de las casas.
Answer: mary robinson
Q18 | Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president of ………………..
  • america
  • britain
  • india
  • china
Answer: america
Q19 | Eleanor Roosevelt was First Lady from 1933 to 1945, wife to …………
  • bartolomé de las casas.
  • m. robinson
  • francisco de vitoria
  • franklin d. roosevelt
Answer: franklin d. roosevelt
Q20 | Aung San Suu Kyi was born in…………….
  • japan
  • malaya
  • indonesia
  • burma
Answer: burma
Q21 | Aung San Suu Kyi’s father was the de facto prime minister of……………., andwas murdered when she was two years old.
  • burma
  • malaya
  • indonesia
  • japan
Answer: burma
Q22 | Horrified by the brutal atrocities commited by the military leader Ne Winagainst protesters, ……………..formed the National League for Democracy, advocating non violent protest for human rights.
  • aung san suu kyi
  • charles blattberg
  • alain pellet
  • alain de benoist
Answer: aung san suu kyi
Q23 | The atrocities of The Holocaust, culminated in the adoption of the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights in ................by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
  • paris
  • delhi
  • dhaka
  • islamabad
Answer: paris
Q24 | The term human rights probably came into use sometime betweenPaine's The Rights of Man and ................ 1831 writings in The Liberator, in which he stated that he was trying to enlist his readers in "the great cause of human rights".
  • william lloyd garrison's
  • jeremy bentham
  • edmund burke
  • david kennedy
Answer: william lloyd garrison's
Q25 | William Wilberforce in ................worked towards the abolition of slavery.
  • britain
  • america
  • china
  • japan
Answer: britain
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