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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?
(a) Occupied Europe under Axis Rule.
(b) Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.
(c) The Jewish Solution.
(d) Hitler's Extermination Program in Occupied Europe.

2. 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."
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Germany.
(d) The Soviet Union.

3. From whom does the most detailed evidence of the atrocities come?
(a) Three Muslim men who survive a massacre.
(b) Journalists who are stationed in the region.
(c) Three Muslim women who escape.
(d) The area's UN special reporter for human rights.

4. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.
(a) Some.
(b) No.
(c) A great deal of.
(d) Very little.

5. Senator Proxmire continues to give a speech a day to the Senate on genocide. By the early __________, more Americans seem to be open to the idea of ratifying the genocide treaty.
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1990s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?

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

3. In what year does President Reagan lay a wreath at Germany's Bitburg Cemetery, which holds the graves of 49 Nazi SS officials?

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

5. What happens on February 11, 1986?

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