UNIT I

HUMAN RIGHTS MCQ

1. Who introduced the concept of third generation Human Rights?
(A) Tullius Cesero
(B) Jermy Bentham
(C) John Finnis
(D) Karel Vasak
Answer: (D)
2. Which Article of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949 defines the prisoners of
War?
(A) Article 1
(B) Article 2
(C) Article 3
(D) Article 4
Answer: (D)
3. The International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference, 2010 held at
(A) Paris
(B) Kampala
(C) The Hague
(D) Rio de Janeiro
Answer: (B)
4. Who coined the term ‘Genocide’?
(A) Raphael Lemkin
(B) Eleanor Roosevelt
(C) P Thornberry
(D) Jafferson
Answer: (A)
5. Who was the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross?
(A) Henry Dunant
(B) F. Lieber
(C) Rousseau
(D) None of the above
Answer: (A)
6. Who among the following propounded the modern principles of Natural Justice?
(A) Locke
(B) J.S. Mill
(C) A.V. Dicey
(D) John Rawals
Answer: (C)
7. Guidelines for arrest of persons by the police were given by the Supreme
Court in which of the following cases?
(A) Maneka Gandhi vs. Union of India
(B) Auto Sankar vs. State of Tamil Nadu
(C) Hussainara Khatoon vs. State of Bihar
(D) D. K. Basu vs. State of West Bengal
Answer: (D)
8. The legal positivism, a school of thought which does not accept human rights as
merely moral or just was propounded by
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Hegel
(D) Austin
Answer: (D)
9. ‘Laissez faire’ philosophy is an anti thesis of
(A) Interventionist State
(B) Repressive State
(C) Soft State
(D) Welfare State
Answer: (D)
10. Which of the following are moral principles that describe certain standards of
human behaviour and are regularly protected as legal rights?

a) National rights
b) Human rights
c) Women rights
d) Men rights

Answer: b
11. Human rights and civil rights are the same.

a) True
b) False
c) both a and b
d) None of the above

Answer: b
12. When did the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created?
a) 1947
b) 1948
c) 1949
d) 1950

Answer: b

13. Which is the world’s first charter of human rights?

a) The Cyrus Cylinder
b) The Constitution of Media
c) Bill of Rights
d) The Magna Carta

Answer: a
14. Which one of the following played an important role in international human
rights law?
a) World war
b) Economic summit
c) The United Nations
d) Treaty of Baskerville
Answer: c

15. In which century human rights became a central concern over the issue of
slavery?
a) 15th
b) 17th
c) 19th
d) 21th

Answer: c
16. Ancient peoples have the same modern day conception of universal human
rights.
a) True
b) False
c) All of the above
d) Both a and b

Answer: b

17. When did the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam adopted?
a) 1985
b) 1990
c) 1995
d) 2000

Answer: b
18. In which country ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’ was
adopted?
a) India
b) France
c) China
d) Denmark

Answer: b

19. When did the first Geneva Convention took place?

a) 1756
b) 1864
c) 1958
d) 2006

Answer: b
20. Definition of Human Rights is provided under:
a) Section 2 (d) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
b) Section 2 (a) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
c) Section 2 (b) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
d) Section 2 (c) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
Ans: a)
21. Definition of Human Rights is stated by:
a) Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1948
b) Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1950
c) Universal Document of Human Rights,1940
d) Universal Declaration of Human Rights,1949
Ans: a)
22. Dr. Justice Durga Das Basu defines Human rights as:
a) Maximum rights
b) Minimal rights
c) Both a & b
d) Neither a nor b
Ans: b)
23. Significance of human rights include:
a) To allow people to stand up to societal corruption
b) To give people access to education
c) To protect the environment
d) All of the above
Ans: d)
24.Characteristics of Human rights are:
a) Universal
 b) Inalienable
c) Both a and b
d) Neither a nor b
Ans: c)
25.Can our human rights be taken away from us?
a) No
b) Yes
c) Some times
d) If we want then can be taken
Ans: a)

26.Human rights are conferred to an individual even after his death:

a) No
b) Sometimes
c) Yes
d) Both b and c
Ans: c)
27.The Nature of Human rights are:
a) Alienable
b) Revocable
c) Universal
d) Not Dynamic
Ans: c)
28.Human rights entail both:
a) Liberties and privileges
b) Rights and obligations
c) Both a & b
d) Neither a nor b
Ans: b)

29.The scope of Human Rights:

a) Wide
b) Very narrow
c) Narrow
d) No scope
Ans: a)
30.Generation of subjective rights is the generation of:
 a) Civil rights
b) Political rights
c) Cultural Rights
d) All of the above
Ans: d)
31.Socio-economic and cultural rights include:
a) Right to work
b) Right to religion
c) both a & b
d) only a & not b
Ans: c)
32.The magna carta came in the year:
a)2150
b) 1215
c)1250
d)2115
Ans: b)
33.The magna carta is also known as:
a) Important charter
b) Both a and c
c) The great charter
d) England charter
Ans: c)
34.Natural Law theory was given by:
a) John Locke
b) Holland
c) Gray
d) Kant
Ans: a)

35.Cyrus the Great, the first king of :

a) Persia
b) China
c) England
 d) Europe
Ans: a)
36.Cyrus the Great, the first king of Persia, freed the slaves of Babylon
in :
a) 539 B. C.
b) 538 B. C.
c) 529 B. C.
d) 530 B. C.
Ans: a)
37.The baked-clay cylinder was in:
a) Akkadian language
b) English language
c) a & b
d) Persian language

Ans: a)
38.United States Declaration of Independence came in the year:
a) 1800
b) 1776
c) 1766
d) 1700
Ans: b)
39.United States Declaration of Independence is the result of:
a) French revolution
b) Both a and c
c) American revolution
d) England revolution
Ans: c)
40.Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came in the
year:
a) 1789
b) 1780
c) 1700
d) 1800
Ans: a)
 41.Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is the result of :
a) French revolution
b) American revolution
c) England revolution
d) Both a and b
Ans: a)
42.United nations was established in the year:
a) 1945
b) 1946
c) 1950
d) 1955
Ans: a)
43.How many nations met in San Francisco in 1945 and formed the
United Nations to protect and promote peace:
a) 50
b) 60
c) 30
d) 70
Ans: a)

44.Universal Declaration of Human Rights came in the year:

a) 1950
b) 1948
c) 1947
d) 1945
Ans: b)
45.Universal Declaration of human Rights is known as:
a) Modern charter
b) Both a and c
c) The international Magna Carta for all mankind
d) Charter of excellence
Ans: c)
46.What is the full form of ICCPR?
a) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
b) International Covenant on Civil and Personal Rights
 c) Both a and b
d) Neither a nor b
Ans: a)

47.International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights came in:

a) 1976
b) 1945
c) 1967
d) 1960
Ans: a)
48.What is the full form of ICESCR?
a) International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights
b) International Covenant on Economic, Societal and Cultural
Rights
c) International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights
d) International Covenant on Social and Cultural Rights
Ans: a)
49.International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
a) 1976
b) 1999
c) 1966
d) 1964
Ans: a)

50.Any society that is to protect human rights must have the following
characteristics:
a) Economic system
b) A de jure or free state in which the right to self-determination
and rule of law exist
c) A non- legal system for the protection of human rights
d) A welfare system
Ans: b)
51.Approaches to Human Rights are:
a) Natural Law approach
b) Historical approach
c) Positivist approach
 d) All of the above
Ans: d)
52.Marxist Approach is given by?
a) Karl Marx
b) Gray
c) Both a and b
d) Neither a nor b
Ans: a)

53.Hammurabi code of laws was established by:

a) European king
b) Babylon king
c) English King
d) None of the above
Ans: b)
54.The Greek Period saw the emergence of _________ philosophers ?
a) Plato
b) Socrates
c) Both a and b
d) Karl Marx
Ans: c)
55.Social contract theory is given by:
a) Gray
b) Salmond
c) Thomas Hobbes
d) None of the above
Ans: c)
56.In Vedas, human right is signified with the concept of:
a) Economic system
b) Equality
c) Both a and b
d) Neither a nor b
Ans: b)
57.Who said that the happiness of the state lies in the happiness of his
subjects:
a) Manu
 b) Kant
c) Gray
d) Kautilya
Ans: d)
58.Kautilya beautifully sum up the concept of?
a) Welfare state
b) Economic state
c) Both a and b
d) Neither a nor b
Ans: a)

59.The concept of human rights got lost in the dark with coming of:
a) European king
b) Mughals
c) Arabians
d) None of the above
Ans: b)
60.The Regulating Act came into existence in?
a) 1777
b) 1770
c) 1773
d) 1775
Ans: c)
61.The first explicit demand for fundamentals rights appeared in:
a) The Constitution of India Bill,1897
b) The Constitution of India Bill,1890
c) The Constitution of India Bill,1895.
d) None of the above
e) Ans: c)
62.Fundamental Rights are provided in Indian Constitution under:
a) Part V
b) Part III
c) Both a and b
d) Neither a nor b
Ans: b)
 63.Directive Principles of State Policy are provided in Indian
Constitution under:
a) Part V
b) Part II
c) Part III
d) Part IV
Ans: d)
64.Fundamental Duties are provided in Indian Constitution under?
a) Part V
b) Part VI
c) Both a and b
d) Neither a nor b
Ans: d)

65.There are ______ fundamental duties of the citizen of India:

a) 16
b) 11
c) 10
d) 15
Ans: b)
66.Right to Information Act passed in:
a) 2004
b) 2003
c) 2005
d) 2001
Ans: c)
67.The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act came
into force in:
a) 2013
b) 2005
c) 2010
d) 2011
Ans: c)