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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?
(a) His wife and child had died at Auschwitz.
(b) His wife and child had died in the Warsaw ghetto.
(c) His wife had died in the Krakow ghetto.
(d) He was to be deported to Treblinka.

2. Policymakers in favor of ratification argue not only for the moral imperatives but also that non-ratification is:
(a) Enhancing and facilitating the spread of Communism.
(b) Damaging American interests and status.
(c) Enhancing Soviet interests and status.
(d) Damaging the UN's interests and status.

3. What is the name of the Polish diplomat and Roman Catholic who infiltrates first the Warsaw ghetto and later a death camp in order to report on Jewish suffering?
(a) Jan Karski.
(b) Karol Wojtyla.
(c) Szmul Zygielbojm.
(d) Lech Walesa.

4. Which concentration camp does Reagan visit during his trip to Germany in response to people's complaints about his laying a wreath at a cemetery that includes the graves of nearly 50 Nazi SS officials?
(a) Treblinka.
(b) Mauthausen.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Auschwitz.

5. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.
(a) Some.
(b) A great deal of.
(c) Very little.
(d) Zero.

Short Answer Questions

1. This country frequently cuts down U.S. criticisms of other countries by saying "a country that had not even contracted to the genocide convention had no right to lecture the Soviet Union on human rights."

2. After the U.S. embassy in London cables Washington with news of the Srbrenica atrocities, how do senior U.S. and UN officials treat the situation?

3. From whom does the most detailed evidence of the atrocities come?

4. What American institution presents some discussion on actions that the U.S. could have taken to help Jews?

5. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?

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