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Fundamental and Human Rights

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This set of questions covers fundamental rights, human rights, and constitutional provisions like the Right against Exploitation. It also explores international declarations and individual liberties. These topics are frequently tested in UPSC and state PSC examinations.

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Fundamental and Human Rights Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the following is not the Fundamental Right ?

  1. Right To Freedom of Religion

  2. Right to Education

  3. Right to Information

  4. Right to Holiday
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Fundamental Rights are guaranteed by the Constitution (Articles 12-35). Right to Information is a statutory right under the RTI Act, and there is no 'Right to Holiday' in the Constitution.

Multiple choice

Which Fundamental Right was removed from the constitution ?

  1. Right to housing

  2. Right to livelihood

  3. Right to Property

  4. Right to freedom
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Right to Property was originally a Fundamental Right under Article 31, but it was removed by the 44th Constitutional Amendment Act in 1978 and converted into a legal right under Article 300A.

Multiple choice

Which fundamental right include freedom to every religion institution to manage its own affairs in matter of

  1. Right against exploitation

  2. Right to live

  3. Right to the freedom of religion

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Right to Freedom of Religion (Articles 25-28) guarantees religious freedom including the right of every religious institution to manage its own affairs in matters of religion. This includes establishing and maintaining religious institutions. Right against Exploitation (23-24) prohibits trafficking and forced labour, while Right to Life is Article 21.

Multiple choice

Which of the fundamental right include probhition of traffic in human beings all forms of forced labour and beggar

  1. Right to exploitation

  2. Right to freedom

  3. Right to education

  4. None of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Right against Exploitation (Articles 23-24) prohibits traffic in human beings, forced labour (begar), and child labour. Article 23 specifically bans trafficking and all forms of forced labour. Right to Freedom (Articles 19-22) deals with speech, movement, and life liberties. The question has 'probhition' typo.

Multiple choice

Which fundamental right includes equality of opportunity in matters of public employment

  1. Right to freedom

  2. Right to exploitation

  3. Right to equality

  4. None of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Article 16 of the Indian Constitution under Right to Equality guarantees equality of opportunity for all citizens in matters of public employment. It ensures that no citizen shall be ineligible for any office or employment under the state on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, or place of birth. Right to Freedom deals with personal liberties, while Right against Exploitation prohibits forced labor.

Multiple choice

Right against Exploitation is?

  1. protects citizens from forced labour and slavery.

  2. conserves the language and culture of minorities in India.

  3. empowers the supreme court to order writs

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Right against Exploitation (Articles 23 and 24) specifically prohibits human trafficking, forced labor, and child labor. Option B refers to Cultural and Educational Rights, while option C refers to the Right to Constitutional Remedies.

Multiple choice

According to Rousseau’s concept of the general will, which of the following is true?

  1. Men have the right to overthrow their gov't whenever

  2. Men do not give up their rights in the social contract

  3. Men are obliged to follow their monarch b/c of divine right

  4. Men created gov't and thus must obey the laws
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Rousseau's 'general will' suggests that by entering the social contract, individuals agree to be governed by the collective will of the community. In this framework, obeying the law is an expression of one's own freedom as part of the sovereign body.

Multiple choice

Written after WWII, this document states the rights all citizens around the world should have

  1. Declaration of Independence

  2. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

  3. The Magna Carta

  4. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 to establish a common standard of rights for all people and nations following the atrocities of WWII.

Multiple choice social inequality labour and its division social stratification labour sociology

Article ________ provides for the Protection of Cultural rights of the minorities.

  1. 21A

  2. 45

  3. 29

  4. 39
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Article 29 of the Constitution provides protection of interests of minorities. It's clause (1) provides that any section, if citizens in India or any part thereof having a distinct language, script or culture of its own, shall have the right to protect the same. The article also provides protection to religious minorities also.