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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?

2. On what date does Raphael Lemkin die?

3. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?

4. Lemkin had long been fascinated by ____________.

5. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do we know that the United States and British governments had a great deal of intelligence on Hitler's extermination of Jews that belied their feigned ignorance of the atrocities?

3. 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?

4. Why did the Khmer Rouge especially target people who wore glasses?

5. In a cable to Washington, what term did Ambassador Henry Morgenthau use to condemn the actions of the Turkish government against the Armenians?

6. Why was Morgenthau unable to do more about the Armenians than send cables to Washington?

7. Which senator from South Dakota believed that genocide was taking place in Cambodia and wanted the United States to contribute military forces to make it stop?

8. In what way did Power see U.S. policymakers handle the genocide in Bosnia?

9. Immediately after World War II, how did books and films that addressed the war deal with the Holocaust?

10. What message did the United States government tell Morgenthau to pass on to Turkey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using the text to support your statements, describe and analyze the shifts in power and position between Rwanda's Tutsi and Hutu in the three decades between Rwanda's independence from Belgium and the Arusha accords.

Essay Topic 2

Describe and explain the nature and structure of the joint Hutu/Tutsi government that was the result of the 1993 Arusha Accords that ended Rwanda's first civil war.

Essay Topic 3

Using the text to support your arguments, analyze and explain the reasons why government officials and journalists in Allied countries dismissed intelligence of the Holocaust as unsubstantiated and untrustworthy.

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