Drept Internațional - Quiz

Test Questions and Answers - International Law

• Question 1: International law is divided into:
  • a) private and public
• Question 2: The term "laws and customs of war" was adopted by:
  • b) The Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907
• Question 3: Main sources of international humanitarian law are:
  • a) treaty and custom
• Question 4: Jus ad Bellum (the right to war) falls outside the scope of international humanitarian law and under international public law:
  • a) with the implementation of the responsibility to protect concept
  • c) with the prohibition of aggressive war
• Question 5: The term jus in bello defines:
  • b) the set of rules applicable in armed conflict
• Question 6: The term "international law of armed conflict" was adopted by:
  • a) The 1907 Hague Conventions
  • b) The 1949 Geneva Conventions
• Question 7: The principle of distinction in attack means:
  • a) members of armed forces are prohibited from attacking civilian populations and property, cultural property, and other protected persons and objects
• Question 8: The principle of proportionality requires:
  • c) not causing to the adverse party damages and losses greater than necessary to achieve the military objectives
• Question 1: International law prohibits:
  • c) aggressive war
• Question 2: Conflicts are classified based on the subjects involved as:
  • a) international and non-international
• Question 3: The 1949 Geneva Conventions guarantee protection in cases of:
  • a) international armed conflict
• Question 4: Non-international armed conflict is regulated by:
  • c) Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II of 1977
• Question 5: Protocol 1 recognizes liberation wars as:
  • b) non-international armed conflict
• Question 6: An internal conflict becomes internationalized when:
  • a) waged between a state and an organized armed group receiving military support from a foreign state
• Question 7: Identifying the type of armed conflict is crucial for:
  • c) determining the applicable norms of international humanitarian law
• Question 8: Resistance movements in enemy territory are:
  • b) non-international armed conflicts
• Question 1: Combatants are:
  • a) people who participate in hostilities, and have the right to engage in hostilities against the enemy
• Question 2: According to international humanitarian law (IHL), civilians have the right to take up arms:
  • a) when enemy forces have control of the territory
• Question 3: Engaging children under 15 in armed conflict is:
  • b) prohibited
• Question 4: Illegal combatants include:
  • a) mercenaries, spies, and scouts;
• Question 5: Paramilitary and police forces:
  • a) to be recognized as combatants, the state using them must notify the opposing side
• Question 6: According to Additional Protocol I of 1977, a combatant loses combatant status when:
  • b) they fail to wear distinctive insignia
• Question 7: Military personnel participating in an international mission:
  • a) must comply with IHL in all circumstances
• Question 8: The status of combatants is regulated by:
  • b) Article 43 of Additional Protocol I of 1977
• Question 1: The rules of customary and conventional international humanitarian law become applicable:
  • c) from the declaration of a state of belligerency
• Question 2: A truce is:
  • a) a temporary and conventional suspension of hostilities
• Question 3: Military occupation is:
  • b) the unlawful invasion of a territory of an enemy state and the imposition of military control
• Question 4: Military occupation:
  • a) entails a temporary and limited transfer of sovereignty
• Question 10: Capture and search operations undertaken by one belligerent within the territorial waters of a neutral state are:
  • a) prohibited in all cases
• Question 1: According to the First Geneva Convention of 1949, the status of wounded and sick combatants, and their accompanying staff, is:
  • b) the personnel of the armed forces and those accompanying them
• Question 2: The 1977 Additional Protocol, defines the term wounded and sick:
  • c) includes the armed forces personnel and those accompanying them with injuries, illnesses, and mental impairments
• Question 3: Captured medical personnel are considered:
  • b) prisoners of war and must be afforded the same protection as other prisoners
• Question 4: The military personnel serving as medics while deployed:
  • b) are considered to be entitled to protected status
• Question 1: The violations of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 constitute:
  • b) serious violations
• Question 3: The Geneva Conventions define crimes of war:
  • a) as grave breaches of the Conventions
• Question 6: Actions intended to deprive a belligerent of its legitimate capacity to endure or continue the conflict can be classified as:
  • b) war crimes