1.
The Hindu concept of dharma setsforth the responsibilities and rights of individuals
in terms of their
(A)
Individual identity
(B)
Membership in a human community
(C)
Duty towards God
(D)
Duty towards family
Answer: (B)
2.
The Indian tradition of human rights during war is best exemplified in the work
of
(A)
Mahabharata
(B)
Ramayana
(C)
Emperor Ashoka
(D)
Emperor Akbar
Answer: (C)
3.
Prohibition of Discrimination on grounds of religion etc. (Article 15 of the
Indian Constitution) is a
Fundamental
Right classifiable under
(A)
The Right to Freedom of Religion
(B)
The Right against Exploitation
(C)
The Cultural and Educational Rights
(D)
The Right to Equality
Answer: (D)
4.
Which Article of the Constitution of India says ‘No Child below the age of fourteen
years shall be employed to work in any Factory or Mine or engaged in any other
hazardous employment’?
(A)
Article 24
(B)
Article 45
(C)
Article 330
(D)
Article 368
Answer: (A)
5.
Which Amendment introduced the “Right to Education” as a Fundamental Right?
(A)
44th
(B)
86th
(C)
98th
(D)
101st
Answer: (B)
6.
Fundamental Duties mention in Article 51 A of the Constitution is in the nature
of
(A)
Legal obligations
(B)
Instructions addressed to the citizens
(C)
Powers of State to monitor citizens
(D)
Justiciable Right
Answer: (B)
7.
Which of the following thinkers did not give the idea of natural rights?
(A)
Thombas Hobbes
(B)
J.J. Rousseau
(C)
John Locke
(D)
Jermy Bentham
Answer: (D)www.netugc.in
8.
Who among the following theorists spoke about the right to property?
(A)
John Locke
(B)
Karl Marx
(C)
J.S. Mill
(D)
Antonio Gramsci
Answer: (A)
9.
Article – 343 of the Indian Constitution declares Hindi as the
(A)
National language
(B)
State language
(C)
Official language of the Union
(D)
Administrative language of the Union
Answer: (C)
10.
International Humanitarian Law relates to
(A)
Laws of War
(B)
Laws of Sea
(C)
Laws of peaceful settlement of International Disputes
(D)
Laws of Intervention in case of violation of Human Rights
Answer: (A)
11.
Which Article of Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, “Everyone has
the right to life, liberty and security of person”?
(A)
Article 1
(B)
Article 3
(C)
Article 5
(D)
Article 6
Answer: (B)
12.
The Declaration on the Rights of persons belonging to National or Ethnic
religious or linguistic minorities was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in
(A)
1948
(B)
1966
(C)
1993
(D)
2003
Answer: (C)
13.
Convention on the elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was
adopted in
(A)
1966
(B)
1979
(C)
1983
(D)
1993
Answer: (B)
14.
Which of the following does not constitute part of the International Bill of
Rights?www.netugc.in
(A)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(B)
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
(C)
International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
(D)
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.
Answer: (C)
15.
Which of the following is the only country in the world that guarantees right
to succession to its citizens?
(A)
Russia
(B)
Switzerland
(C)
Ethiopia
(D)
Central African Republic
Answer: (C)
16.
Who coined the phrase ‘self-rule and shared-rule’ that establishes federalism
as a grand theory of group rights?
(A)
Ronald Watts
(B)
Thomas Eleiner
(C)
Danial Elazar
(D)
Benedict Anderson
Answer: (C)
17.
All rights and freedoms are
(A)
Indivisible and interdependent
(B)
Indivisible but independent
(C)
Hierarchical in order
(D)
absolute
Answer: (A)
18.
The Gandhian idea of individual rights was characterized within the framework
of
(A)
Human interdependence
(B)
European liberal tradition
(C)
Socialist tradition
(D)
Vedic tradition
Answer: (A)
19.
According to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000,
Juveniles in conflict with the law are kept in
(A)
Juvenile Home
(B)
Judicial Custody
(C)
Observation Home
(D)
Parental Custody
Answer: (C)
20.
Which of the following type of violence is not included in the ‘The Protection
of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005’?
(A)
Physical and Sexual
(B)
Verbal and Emotional
(C)
Financial
(D)
None of the above
Answer: (D)
21.
Assertion (A): Extreme poverty constitutes the gross violation of human rights.
Reason
(R): Fulfillment of basic needs of life lie at the core of enjoyment of human
rights.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (A)
22.
Assertion (A): International crimes refer to the crimes that take place in the
international waters.www.netugc.in
Reason
(R): International criminal court was set up to deal with the incidents of the
most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (D)
23.
Assertion (A): Rape and sexual harassment of women reflect the need for
educating people on protection and promotion of women’s rights in India.
Reason
(R): Human Rights Education in India is more academic than sensitizing people
on the issues of protection and promotion of rights of vulnerable sections of society.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) iscorrect.
Answer: (A)
24.
Assertion (A): Article 21 of the Indian Constitution has provided ample scope
to courts to add newer dimensions to Right to Life.
Reason
(R): Without Article 21, the Indian Constitution would not have remained
democratic.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (B)
25.
Assertion (A): John Locke is considered as the father of Constitutional
Government.
Reason
(R): John Locke argued for limiting the authority of Government.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (A)
26.
Assertion (A): Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the foundation of various
Human
Rights Instruments in the modern times.
Reason
(R): America sought to universalize human rights in the
world through the mechanism of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (C)
27.
Assertion (A): Public opinion thrives in a democratic society.
Reason
(R): There is freedom of press.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (A)
28.
Assertion (A): ‘Climate Refugees’ are a group of people facing displacement
from their native places due to the extremities of weather.
Reason
(R): Rio Summit was an attempt to save the earth.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correctand (R) is the correctexplanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (B)
29.
Assertion (A): The doctrine of ‘basic structure’ of Indian Constitution was
evolved by Supreme Court in the Keshavanand Bharti case.
Reason
(R): During the decades of 1950s and 1960s, there was an attempt on the port of
the Executive to undermine the authority of the constitution.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (A)
30.
Assertion (A): The challenge that the Indian State is facing today is how to
achieve an equivalence between the State and the Civil Society within a democratic
framework..
Reason
(R): Criminalization of politics, political corruption and communal violence
stand in the way of creating a value based political culture.
Codes:
(A)
Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B)
Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C)
(A) is correct, but (R) is incorrect.
(D)
(A) is incorrect, but (R) is correct.
Answer: (B)
31.
Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes
given below:
List
– I List
– II
a.
Desmond Tutu i. Ghana
b.
Martin Luther King ii.
Tanzania
c.
Julius Nyrere iii.
United States
d.
Kwame Nkrumah iv. South Africa
Codes:
a b c d
(A)
ii i iii iv
(B)
iii iv i ii
(C)
iv iii ii i
(D)
i ii iii iv
Answer: (C)
32.
Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes
given below:
List
– I List
– II
a.
Glorious Revolution i.
1215
b.
Petition of Rights ii.
1688
c.
Magna Carta iii.
1689
d.
Bill of Rights iv.
1628
Codes:
a b c d
(A)
ii iii i iv
(B)
ii iii iv i
(C)
i ii iv iii
(D)
ii iv i iii
Answer: (D)
33.
Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes
given below:
List
– I List
– II
a.
Dr. Rajendra Prasad i.
Struggle is My Life
b.
Dr. AbulKalam Azad ii.
Gitanjali
c.
Nelson Mandela iii.
India Wins Freedom
d.
Rabindranath Tagore iv.
India Divided
Codes:
a b c d
(A)
iv iii i ii
(B)
iii ii iv i
(C)
i ii iii iv
(D)
ii i iv iii
Answer: (A)
34.
Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes
given below:
List
– I List
– II
a.
Legal Theory of Rights i.
Edmund Burke
b.
Theory of Prescriptive Rights ii.
John Locke
c.
Theory of Natural Rights iii.
T.H. Green
d.
Idealistic Theory of Rights iv.
J. Bentham
Codes:
a b c d
(A)
i ii iii iv
(B)
iv i ii iii
(C)
i iii ii iv
(D)
ii iv iii i
Answer: (B)
35.
Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes
given below:www.netugc.in
List
– I List
– II
a.
Vienna Declaration i.
1993
b.
Rio Declaration ii. 1992
c.
Copenhagen Declaration iii. 1980
d.
Beijing Declaration iv. 1995
Codes:
a b c d
(A)
ii iii iv i
(B)
iii i ii iv
(C)
iv ii iii i
(D)
i ii iii iv
Answer: (D)
36.
Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes
given below:
List
– I List
– II
a.
Swami Sahajanand i. Rights of
Women
b.
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan ii. Rights of Dalits
c.
Sir Narayan Guru iii.
Rights of Muslims
d.
PanditaRamabai iv. Rights
of Peasants
Codes:
a b c d
(A)
i ii iii iv
(B)
iv iii i ii
(C)
ii iii i iv
(D)
iv iii ii i
Answer: (D)
37.
Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes
given below:
List
– I List
– II
(Instrument)
(Year
of Adoption)
a.
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination i. 1950
b.
Convention on the Political Rights of Women ii.
1952
c.
Convention on the Rights of the Child iii.
1965
d.
Convention relating to the status of Refugees iv.
1989
Codes:
a b c d
(A)
i iii ii iv
(B)
iii ii i iv
(C)
ii i iii iv
(D)
iii ii iv i
Answer: (D)
38.
Arrange chronologically the enactment years of the following instruments by
using codes given below:
(i)
Dowry Prohibition Act
(ii)
Child Marriage Restraint Act
(iii)
Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act
(iv)
Protection of Civil Rights Act
Codes:
(A)
(iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(B)
(ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(C)
(i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(D)
(iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Answer: (B)
39.
Match the Articles of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights given in List – I with their corresponding rights given in List – II:
List
– I List – II
a.
Article 6 i. Right to
Education
b.
Article 7 ii. Right to
Work
c.
Article 8 iii. Right to
form and join Trade Union
d.
Article 13 iv. Right to
enjoyment of just and favorable conditions of work
Codes:
a b c d
(A)
iv ii i iii
(B)
iii i ii iv
(C)
ii iv iii i
(D)
i ii iii iv
Answer: (C)
40.
Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answers from the codes
given below:
List
– I List
– II
(Right)
(Directive
Principle)
a.
Right to adequate means of livelihood i.
Article 39
b.
Right to work ii.
Article 41
c.
Right to workers to participate in management of industries iii. Article 43
d.
Right of Children to free and compulsory education iv. Article 45
Codes:
a b c d
(A)
ii iii iv i
(B)
i ii iii iv
(C)
iv iii i ii
(D)
iii iv ii i
Answer: (B)
41.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
(i)
African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
(ii)
Arab Charter on Human Rights
(iii)
American Convention on Human Rights
(iv)
European Convention on Human Rights
Codes:
(A)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B)
(iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C)
(iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(D)
(ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
Answer: (C)
42.
Arrange the following Commissions in order of their creation:
(i)
National Commission for Human Rights
(ii)
National Commission for Minorities
(iii)
National Commission for Women
(iv)
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Codes:
(A)
(i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(B)
(ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(C)
(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(D)
(iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
Answer: (D)
43.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
(i)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
(ii)
Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
(iii)
Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
(iv)
Declaration on the Right to Development.
Codes:
(A)
(ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(B)
(iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(C)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D)
(iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
Answer: (C)
44.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
(i)
Asian Values Debate
(ii)
Right to Development
(iii)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(iv)
Development as Freedom
Codes:
(A)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B)
(iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(C)
(ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(D)
(iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
Answer: (B)
45.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
(i)
League of Nations
(ii)
Permanent Court of International Justice
(iii)
International Labour Organization
(iv)
World Health Organization
Codes:
(A)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B)
(ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(C)
(iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(D)
(i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
Answer: (D)
46.
Arrange the following Articles in chronological order:
(i)
Freedom of Expression
(ii)
Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion
(iii)
Protection of Privacy
(iv)
Access to Appropriate Information
Codes:
(A)
(ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(B)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C)
(iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(D)
(iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Answer: (Wrong question)
Read
the passage given below and answer the questions that follow based on your
understanding of the passage:
The British political theorist John
Stuart Mill (1806-1873) called for the right to self-determinationonly in
particular instances. In Considerations on Representative Government (1861), he
argued that the homogeneity of national identity, of a “united public opinion,”
is necessary to allow the establishment of free political institutions. The
unified nation, rather than the multinational state, formed the fundamental political
unit. Its existence is a necessary precondition for free government. The other prerequisites
were economic and social development, and those nations which, like India,
lagged behind, were legitimate objects of an “enlightened” colonialism for which
the British provided a model.
As early as 1909, Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919),
the exiled Polish socialist leader in Germany, provided a socialist view of the
right to self-determination. In The National Question and Autonomy (1909), she maintained
that socialist concessions to claims for national rights were usually pointless
and counterproductive. Yet in opposition to future Soviet leader Joseph Stalin,
she favoured claims to self-determination by oppressed people so long as their
economies could survive independence. Attacking the Polish nationalists of her
day, Luxemburg argued that secession from Russia would undermine the interests of
the Polish proletariat. Such rights were utopian for industrially backward countries,
like Poland and Czechoslovakia, whose economic development depended on the market
of their mother country. Luxemburg also warned that any alliance of the working
class with the nationalist bourgeoisie of oppressed countries would subvert the
future establishment of democratic and socialist regimes.
From a very different perspective, the liberal
President Woodrow Wilson (1856- 1924) proclaimed in his “The Fourteen Points
Address” to Congress (1918) the right of ethnic groups to national
self-determination: “it is the principle of justice to all peoples and
nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety
with another, whether they be strong or weak.” These rights, he hoped, could be
realized by a League of Nations, which would establish borders based on homogenous
ethnic groups, thereby presumably removing a major cause of war.
Inspired by Wilson, the League of Nations,
was an international organization established after World War I to provide
peace and security, and to facilitate humancooperation. The Covenant of The
League ofNations (1919) sought humane working conditions, the prohibition of
traffic in women and children, the prevention and control of disease, and the
just treatment of colonial peoples. The League of Nations placed the people of
the colonies under a system of mandates administered by the victorious colonial
powers, who agreed to bring the mandate territories toward self-Government. The
administering powers were responsible for ensuring racial and religious impartiality
in those territories.
47.
Who among the following favoured grant of right to self-determination only on
the basis of ethnicity?
(A)
Rosa Luxemburg
(B)
Woodrow Wilson
(C)
John Stuart Mill
(D)
None of the above
Answer: (B)
48.
Necessary pre-condition for free Government according to J.S. Mill is
(A)
Unified Nation
(B)
Multinational State
(C)
Cultural Homogeneity
(D)
Cultural Heterogeneity
Answer: (A)
49.
Rosa Luxemburg opposed Polish recession from Russia because
(A)
Poland was ethnically not different Russia
(B)
Right to self-determination by industrially backward countries was not
justified.
(C)
Communism does not favourright to self-determination.
(D)
None of the above
Answer: (B)
50.
The covenant of League of Nations favoured
(A)
Immediate grant of right to self-determination to colonial people.
(B)
Continuation of colonial rule as it existed before 1919.
(C)
Placement of colonies under a system of mandates administered by victorious colonial
powers.
(D)
Administration of colonies by the League itself.
Answer: (C)
