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What are Human Rights?

By Aisling Eccles

Last updated over 4 years ago

8 Questions

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Pre-Test Human Rights

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Read the summary of the article. Choose the answer that BEST goes into the blank to complete the summary.
Human rights are ideas about basic freedoms that everyone deserves in order to live safe lives. _________________ Not all governments protect human rights equally. After WWII, countries around the world decided to form the United Nations to protect human rights across the world.

D. World War II led to the creation of Human Rights Day, celebrated on December 10 each year.

C. Some human rights require government protection, such as the right to food and safe water.

B. The American Revolution was the first example of citizens thinking about human rights.

A. The idea of human rights was invented by John Locke and Jean- Jacques Rousseau.

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Which is the BEST summary of the final section of the article?

A. After the Holocaust and World War II, the international community decided to identify and protect the basic rights of humankind.  As a result, the UN was formed and this organization penned the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  They work to investigate abuses and protect the rights of people all over the world.

D. Throughout much of history, people have been treated unfairly.  For example, people had to be loyal to their king, and some people were even enslaved!  Luckily, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights protects the rights of people everywhere today, so there are no more problems.

C. Because 90 million people died during World War II, the international community came together to form the United Nations.  Then, they defined and described what human rights are.  The Universal Declaration was a huge accomplishment because it described the rights that all people are born with.

B. According to the article, “A right all people are born with is called a human right.”  The UN created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights document after the atrocities of WWII and the Holocaust.

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What is the text structure of this article?

D. Compare-contrast

C. Cause-effect

A. Problem-solution

E. Sequence-order

B. Description

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What context clues helped you determine the text structure?

A. The headings show the sequence-order of the article.

D. The sentence, “There are many kinds of human rights, but not everyone agrees what they should be” shows that there is a cause and effect to human rights.

B. The title asks for a definition and description of human rights.

C. The photographs help show the article will compare and contrast two human rights activists.

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Which paragraph in "The Enlightenment And Afterward" BEST supports the idea that the Declaration of Independence did not give human rights to all people in the United States?

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B. Paragraph 6

C. Paragraph 7

A. Paragraph 5

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An example of how the central idea recurs in the text is…

B. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malala Yousafzai both had to fight for their human rights.

C. The idea that not everybody has human rights is developed from the beginning through the end of the article.

A. Human rights are defined in the first section and traced throughout history in the subsequent sections.

D. Human rights are described only in the last section of the article.

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What is the MOST likely reason the author included the paragraph about the Holocaust?

A. To show the cause of international cooperation for human rights protection

D. To explain the way that the United Nations operates

B. To compare and contrast Germany with 1700s France

C. To describe all the reasons why World War II got started

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What sentence is the most relevant evidence to support the claim that “World War II (1939–45) proved a world-changing event in regard to human rights”?

A. “Protecting human rights is an ongoing challenge.”

C. “In the past, few people had any rights.“

B. “But even in the United States, many people did not enjoy full human rights.”

D. “The Holocaust convinced many countries that it was necessary to protect the basic rights of people around the world.”

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