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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The United States has done ______________ in actual situations of crimes against humanity.
(a) Little.
(b) A great deal.
(c) Nothing.
(d) More than its fair share.

2. What is the name of the leader of the Khmer Rouge?
(a) Hun Sen.
(b) Idi Amin.
(c) Pol Pot,
(d) Bao Dai.

3. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?
(a) Milosevic.
(b) Mladic.
(c) Vasiljkovic.
(d) Karadzic.

4. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Syria.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Lebanon.

5. By 1976, nearly ___________ Cambodians are dead.
(a) 500,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 1,000,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?

2. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:

3. What ethnicity is Raphael Lemkin?

4. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.

5. In what country does the Khmer Rouge conduct its genocidal campaign?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Powers say motivates U.S. policymakers to keep the U.S. uninvolved in situations when genocide occurs?

2. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from Wisconsin, took up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S. What was the date of Senator Proxmire's first genocide speech?

3. What does the author say is the first reason the United States has been slow to recognize and act when genocide has occurred?

4. As the Khmer Rouge began its genocidal campaign, the U.S. government issued warnings that a bloodbath might happen in the region. What was many Americans' response to the warnings?

5. What did Lemkin do while interacting with officials and the public regarding the Holocaust that he thought would make them believe his, and others', claims about Hitler's atrocities against the Jews?

6. What was the definition of genocide that was adopted by the UN?

7. Why was Raphael Lemkin worthy of an entire chapter of this book? What is his significance to this survey of genocide?

8. What kind of law did Raphael Lemkin propose?

9. After the Vietnamese ousted the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979, what proof of genocide did they find? What was the United States' reaction to the Vietnamese-discovered evidence, and why?

10. Which specific instance of genocide has American society committed itself to remembering and preventing a repetition of, which makes their slowness to react when genocide occurs disturbing to say the least?

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