Deck 8: Global Ethics and Human Rights

Question 1

Those countries who placed human rights at the center of their foreign policies were referred to as:

A) the middle range powers
B) the like minded countries
C) the adversarial countries
D) the legal positivists
E) none of the above

Answer 1

the like minded countries

Question 2

President Harry Truman's message to Japan in 1945 emphasized what ground rules for the termination of the Pacific War?

A) Soviet-led negotiations for surrender
B) total unconditional surrender
C) partial conditional surrender
D) surrender allowing for Emperor to remain in power
E) surrender allowing for Emperor to remain as a figurehead

Answer 2

total unconditional surrender

Question 3

When Albert Einstein wrote to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 advocating a U.S. program to create a nuclear weapon, he justified it as necessary to deter:

A) a nuclear attack by Hitler's Germany
B) a nuclear attack by Hirohito's Japan
C) urban fire-bombings by the Germans
D) urban fire-bombing by the Japanese
E) none of the above

Answer 3

a nuclear attack by Hitler's Germany

Question 4

Select the group of officially atheistic countries:

A) Russia, China, Japan
B) North Korea, Cuba, China
C) Iran, Iraq, Vietnam
D) Poland, Hungary, Albania
E) Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia

Question 5

The essence of ethics boils down to people trying to do what is right.

Question 6

Which religion is native to India?

A) Islam
B) Hinduism
C) Taoism
D) Buddhism
E) none of the above

Question 7

The advent of the post-World War II global human rights movement has most directly cut into the viability of:

A) ethical relativism
B) sovereignty
C) honor killings
D) NGOs
E) pacifism

Question 8

In democracies, ethics can influence public policy through which of these avenues?

A) domestic public opinion
B) global public opinion
C) the personal values of political decision-makers
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 9

Which can be classified as wars fueled by religion?

A) Cyprus, India-Pakistan, Arab-Israeli
B) Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda
C) Tibet, India, Cyprus
D) Nagorno-Karabakh, Bosnia, Cyprus

Question 10

The Hiroshima bomb was a 1 kiloton bomb resulting in 10,000 deaths.

Question 11

The relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II involved only a few thousand people, no personal property, and lasted for six months.

Question 12

A person practicing pacifist civil disobedience is a person passively accepting the prevailing values and norms of society.

Question 13

The most highly-decorated U.S. military unit in World War II, the Fighting 442^nd, was comprised of:

A) German-Americans
B) Italian-Americans
C) Irish-Americans
D) Chinese-Americans
E) Japanese-Americans

Question 14

About 25 honor killings occur per year in:

A) Mexico
B) China
C) Jordan
D) Brazil
E) United States

Question 15

The sexual double standard means that:

A) most cultures give men more sexual freedom
B) most cultures give women more sexual freedom
C) two common patterns exist: each sex has more sexual freedom in different places
D) polygamy is allowed in Islamic countries
E) no prevailing sex roles exist in modern wealthy countries

Question 16

The case study which involved freedom of religion as an issue was:

A) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
B) Suzanne
C) Salman Rushdie Case
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 17

Who did your text describe as someone acting ethically in difficult circumstances?

A) Raoul Wallenberg
B) Leslie Groves
C) Kenneth Kidd
D) Margaret Mead
E) John Money

Question 18

Dropping the bomb, without warning and for military purposes, was the sole option available to President Truman in 1945.

Question 19

In which region are women's rights least egalitarian?

A) Middle East
B) Russia
C) Europe
D) South America
E) Pacific Rim

Question 20

As of 2002, the governments of more than thirty countries qualified as theocracies.

Question 21

Sex is a socially conditioned role, while gender is a genetically determined fact of biology.

Question 22

The crucial decision to Americanize the War in Vietnam was hammered out during a raucous Congressional debate shortly before the assassination of President John Kennedy.

Question 23

It was the government of Iraq that equated Salman Rushdie's literary novel with blasphemy and called on good Muslims to execute him.

Question 24

More than any other event, the Nazi Holocaust of World War II served as the catalyst for the development of an international law of human rights.

Question 25

Actor Denzel Washington plays the role of nonviolent South African black leader Steven Biko in the movie, Cry Freedom. Biko's struggle against apartheid got him killed.

Question 26

Suffragettes in America received the right to vote with the passage of the 19^th amendment to the U.S. constitution in 1920.

Question 27

Seventy percent of those who live in poverty around the world are women.

Question 28

Anthropological research universally reveals that sex roles between males and females remain constant across all cultures.

Question 29

From 1933-45 both the U.S. and Canada lived up to their ideals as havens for refugees by each taking in more than one million European Jews.