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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:
(a) Sarajevo.
(b) Pristina.
(c) Srbrenica.
(d) Split.

2. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) London.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Warsaw.

3. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1905.

4. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.
(a) Armenian attempts to convert Turkey's Muslims to Christianity.
(b) Armenian revolt.
(c) A disease outbreak among the Armenians.
(d) Armenian birth rates.

5. Which of the following issues are not among those that the United States feared would be used against them under the genocide treaty?
(a) Native American relocation.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Women's rights.
(d) Slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?

2. How does Proxmire make his case for ratification of the genocide treaty?

3. Upon what group does Lemkin take out his frustration over the United States' slowness to ratify the genocide treaty?

4. As information about Hitler's extermination of the Jews becomes more widespread, what is the reaction of the majority of people?

5. Lemkin notes earlier in the century that _________ and genocide are almost always connected.

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