Volume 2 Chapter 6 Quiz

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. What makes today's acceptance of human rights distinctive?

It is linked to holding citizenship in a particular state correct incorrect

It depends on belonging to a religion correct incorrect

It is tied to global politics correct incorrect

It marks a new understanding of humanity and what it means to be human correct incorrect

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. What led Jacques Maritain to overcome his initial pessimism about the possibility of a universal declaration of human rights?

He realized that people across the world were equally influenced by Enlightenment ideas. correct incorrect

With the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union heating up, he knew a declaration of rights would be necessary correct incorrect

The prospect of nuclear war mad a declaration of human rights necessary. correct incorrect

He noticed that people's views on human rights were similar despite their different religious or philosophical views. correct incorrect

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. How did René Cassinenvision the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

He compared it to a Gothic cathedral correct incorrect

He compared it to a Greek temple correct incorrect

He compared it to a Roman temple correct incorrect

He compared it to a castle correct incorrect

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. What was the philosophical and cultural movement in Europe from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century in which thinkers held an unprecedented optimism in the potential of knowledge and reason to understand and change the world?

Romanticism correct incorrect

Enlightenment correct incorrect

Realism correct incorrect

Human Rights correct incorrect

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. Who was the principal author of the first draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

John Peters Humphrey correct incorrect

Jacques Maritain correct incorrect

Eleanor Roosevelt correct incorrect

René Cassin correct incorrect

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. In what city was the United Nations Charter drafted and signed?

New York correct incorrect

London correct incorrect

San Francisco correct incorrect

Geneva correct incorrect

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. How did the rest of the US delegation to the United Nations General Assembly view Eleanor Roosevelt when she was appointed as a delegate?

as someone to be taken seriously with since she was the widow of a US president correct incorrect

as someone who had no place in serious negotiations correct incorrect

as someone who had experience in international affairs correct incorrect

as someone who was an expert on human rights correct incorrect

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. After the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified by the UN General Assembly in 1948, which region of the country did Eleanor Roosevelt know would fiercely oppose it?

The North correct incorrect

The South correct incorrect

The West correct incorrect

The Midwest correct incorrect

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. In the late 1960s and 1970s, which organizations used the Declaration of Universal Rights to advocate for downtrodden minorities?

NGOs (nongovernmental organization) correct incorrect

Legal organizations correct incorrect

Communist organizations correct incorrect

Anti-colonial organizations correct incorrect

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. A unique feature of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is_____________ .

Rights and responsibilities to a nation, state, or religion supersede the rights obtained by being human correct incorrect

The rights claimed by self-identified cultural groups supersede the rights accruing by being human correct incorrect

The rights obtained by being human supersede the rights and responsibilities to a nation, state, or religion correct incorrect

All human beings have obligations; but not all human beings have rights correct incorrect