Final Human Rights Test Bank Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Human Rights

Multiple-Choice

1. The _____________ strategy aims to increase profits at the employees’ expense.
   1. cost-minimizing
   2. corporate
   3. market-building
   4. cost-averaging

Topic/Concept: Globalization and Human Rights

3.1: Review the expansion of and the commitment to the human rights agenda

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. When the United States repealed its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, it was
   1. approving torture of terrorism suspects.
   2. protecting the rights of homosexuals.
   3. suspending habeas corpus rights.
   4. protecting the rights of immigrants.

Topic/Concept: Case Study

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The right of a person to be brought before a judge or court in order to determine their innocence or guilt is known as
   1. habeas corpus.
   2. Miranda rights.
   3. legal rights.
   4. processing rights.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following philosophers questioned many major assumptions of utilitarianism?
   1. John Locke
   2. John Stuart Mill
   3. Jeremy Bentham
   4. Karl Marx

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the four freedoms that are necessary for a just society?
   1. Freedom of speech
   2. Freedom from fear
   3. Freedom of religion
   4. Freedom from governmental restrictions

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The concept that a person can’t be deprived of life, liberty, or property without a fair trial based on fair procedures and rules is called
   1. habeas corpus.
   2. utilitarianism.
   3. negative rights.
   4. due process of law.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The absolute insistence on the supremacy of the laws is a key component of
   1. utilitarianism.
   2. legalism.
   3. legal positivism.
   4. social rights.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ is the belief that culture determines the degree of protection of human rights.
   1. Culturalism
   2. Cultural relativism
   3. Humanism
   4. Universalism

Topic/Concept: Philosophical Controversies Over Human Rights

3.3: Evaluate some of the philosophical controversies over human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. _____________ sanctions are the most common type of sanctions.
   1. Unilateral
   2. Cultural
   3. Economic
   4. Diplomatic

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The use of military force in order to protect human rights is known as
   1. imposed intervention.
   2. humanitarian intervention.
   3. consensual intervention.
   4. multilateral sanctions.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The _____________ was created in 2002 to prosecute war criminal and others accused of gross violations of human rights.
   1. International Criminal Court
   2. Nuremberg Court
   3. International Supreme Court
   4. International Court of Justice

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Individuals who are imprisoned because of their political, religious, or social beliefs are known as prisoners of
   1. conscience.
   2. democracy.
   3. humanity.
   4. oppression.

Topic/Concept: Globalization and Human Rights

3.1: Review the expansion of and the commitment to the human rights agenda

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The Greek and Roman Stoics developed the idea of_____________ rights, freedoms to which every human is entitled.
   1. positive
   2. world
   3. relative
   4. universal

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. In the United States, the _____________ consists of constitutional protections of individual rights.
   1. principle of freedoms
   2. Declaration of Independence
   3. Bill of Rights
   4. Second Treatise on Government

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The first global human rights NGO was formed to address the problem of
   1. homophobia.
   2. poor conditions for factory workers.
   3. slavery.
   4. violence against women.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. John Stuart Mill stressed that focusing on the general will can lead to the tyranny of the majority.

Explanation: Jean-Jacques Rousseau stressed this philosophy.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. In the employee-minimizing strategy, companies increase profits at the employees’ expense.

Explanation: It is the cost-minimizing strategy.

Topic/Concept: Globalization and Human Rights

3.1: Review the expansion of and the commitment to the human rights agenda

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Habeas corpus is the right to be brought before a judge or court to determine guilt or innocence.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Amnesty International is the world’s oldest human rights nongovernmental organization.

Explanation: Anti-Slavery Society is the oldest.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. In Cambodia, the Hutus committed many acts of genocide.

Explanation: The Khmer Rouge committed these acts.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The International Court of Justice was created in order to settle disputes between states.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The Potsdam Declaration announced the prosecution of the Germans following WWII.

Explanation: It announced the prosecution of Japanese.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women from Africa and the Arab world for their activism for women’s rights.

Topic/Concept: Women and Human Rights

3.6: Relate the need for stricter laws to protect women's rights to their gross violations of human rights across the globe

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Peacekeeping is intervention by heavily armed military forces.

Explanation: This is peacemaking.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The United Nations no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians during their country’s transition to democracy was a form of humanitarian intervention.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

Fill in the Blank

1. _____________ is the systematic mass murder of an ethnic, religious, or national group.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ is intervention by heavily armed military forces.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ are sanctions imposed by more than one country.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ is an intervention that is agreed upon by all states involved in the conflict.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. One’s social, economic, or political position is one’s _____________.

Topic/Concept: Women and Human Rights

3.6: Relate the need for stricter laws to protect women's rights to their gross violations of human rights across the globe

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The _____________ was the first written legal protection for the British people.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ was the U.S.-run prison in Iraq that committed abuses against Iraqi war detainees.

Topic/Concept: Fighting Terrorism and Protecting Human Rights

3.9: Review the balancing act that needs to be played while fighting terrorism and protecting human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ is the protection of individual life, liberty, and property through a fair trial system.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The _____________ seeks profit by building up markets rather than assaulting worker rights.

Topic/Concept: Globalization and Human Rights

3.1: Review the expansion of and the commitment to the human rights agenda

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. _____________ was a leading Stoic and agreed with the natural law concept.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Matching

Answers to Matching:

1) E) cultural relativism

2) D) Sanctions

3) A) Universal rights

4) B) utilitarianism

5) C) crimes against humanity

Essay

1. Can you explain the differences between relativistic and universal human rights? How

are they different in their scope and normative assumptions?

Topic/Concept: Philosophical Controversies Over Human Rights

3.3 Evaluate some of the philosophical controversies over human rights

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Explain some important legal protections built into the U.S. Constitution and Britain’s Magna Carta.

Topic/Concept: Development of Human Rights

3.2: Evaluate the milestones that led to the current concerns around human rights

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Are sanctions an effective weapon for promoting human rights? If so, how are they effective?

If not, how do they hurt human rights?

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Evaluation

Difficulty Level: Difficult

1. What is ethnic cleansing? How was it used in Rwanda and Yugoslavia?

Topic/Concept: Women and Human Rights

3.6: Relate the need for stricter laws to protect women's rights to their gross violations of human rights across the globe

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. What is humanitarian intervention? Give examples.

Topic/Concept: Enforcing Human Rights Globally

3.5: Report the efforts made globally in bringing violators of human rights to justice

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate