Question 1

In 1938, President Roosevelt called what conference to stop the abuses of the Third Reich?

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The Conference of Evian

Question 2

At the conference, the U.S. was afraid to bring attention to its _____.

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public lynchings

Question 3

Human rights provide the legal mandate to fulfill _____.

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human need

Question 4

The United Nations was founded at

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Question 5

The drafting committee of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was chaired by _____.

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Question 6

Which profession has asserted outright that it is a "human rights profession"?

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Question 7

What percentage of the U.S. population controls nearly 50% of its net worth?

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Question 8

Which country spends a little more than half the amount of global military expenditures (bombs, planes, firepower, nuclear submarines, etc.) ?

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Question 9

The famed philosopher Hannah Arendt is attributed for what chilling phrase?

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Question 10

The Dred Scott decision ruled that an African-American man was _____.

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Question 11

Roughly, what percentage of Americans has ever heard of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

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Question 12

Freedom of speech would be called what "kind" of right?

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Question 13

Adequate shelter would be called what "kind" of right?

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Question 14

Peace, international distributive justice, and humanitarian disaster relief are examples of _____ rights.

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Question 15

Human dignity and nondiscrimination are the legacy of which religious tradition(s)?

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Question 16

President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech was immortalized by which artist and set of paintings?

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Question 17

The wisest and most prudent of all mortals was which mythological character, popularized by the author Albert Camus?

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Question 18

Who said, "We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both"?

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Question 19

The first president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom who refused to give in to evil images was _____.

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Question 20

The proviso of ___________ would find the cutting off of hands for stealing inimical to human rights principles.

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Quiz 1: Introduction