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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some European countries take exception to the _____________ within the U.S.'s ratification resolution.
(a) Sovereignty restrictions.
(b) Amnesty clause.
(c) Definition of genocide.
(d) Genocide exemptions.

2. Which ethnic group is responsible for the aggression against minorities after Yugoslavia's collapse?
(a) Serbs.
(b) Bosnians.
(c) Croats.
(d) Montenegrins.

3. What form of intervention do the United States, Europe, and the United Nations not deploy in Bosnia until it is too late?
(a) Military.
(b) Political.
(c) Humanitarian.
(d) Economic.

4. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:
(a) Ethnic re-alignment.
(b) Ethnic cleansing.
(c) Ethnic purification.
(d) Ethnic unification.

5. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Iran.
(c) Afghanistan.
(d) Turkey.

6. During the Srbrenica massacre, how many Muslims, mostly men and boys are killed?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 7,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 4,000.

7. Before Pol Pot dies in 1998, whom does he claim the deaths in Cambodia are the responsibility of?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Laotians.
(c) The Burmese.
(d) The Vietnamese.

8. In July 1995, Serb forces invade Srbrenica, which is considered a:
(a) Autonomous region.
(b) Refugee camp.
(c) Major city.
(d) Safe area.

9. Which president's administration comes under fire as more people now realize that the U.S. cannot pursue both an end to genocide and a policy of nonintervention in the Balkans?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) George H.W. Bush.
(c) Al Gore.
(d) George W. Bush.

10. In the United States, Peter Galbraith, a staff member of the __________________, keep watch on the situation in Iraq.
(a) Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
(b) Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(c) House Foreign Relations Committee.
(d) Senate Finance Committee.

11. After the Serbian forces leave Kosovo, Albanians expell 100,000 Serbs from Kosovo and killed __________.
(a) 700,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 1,500.

12. By April 10, 1994, Dallaire becomes convinced that the Hutus are targeting anyone who had this in their possession:
(a) A Tutsi identification card.
(b) A college degree.
(c) A Rwandan driver's license.
(d) A Rwandan passport.

13. The UN member states begin setting up a _____________ International Criminal Court (ICC).
(a) Bi-annual.
(b) Traveling.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Permanent.

14. In what year does the Genocide Convention Implementation Act become law?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1986.

15. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which responds with force to the Hutu's political assassinations, thereby reigniting a civil war that had been smoldering, belongs to which Rwandan tribe?
(a) Maasai.
(b) Zulu.
(c) Hutu.
(d) Tutsi.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the three days it takes for UN soldiers to evacuate approximately 4,000 foreigners from Rwanda, how many Rwandans are killed?

2. How do most of the Kurds killed by the Iraqis die?

3. On what date does NATO begin bombing Serb forces?

4. Which concentration center does British Independent Television gain footage of?

5. The town of Halabja becomes known as the Kurdish ____________.

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