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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 Bosnian Serb commander who directs the Srbrenica genocide?
(a) Ratko Milosevic.
(b) Slobodan Milosevic.
(c) Ratko Mladic.
(d) Slobodan Mladic.

2. The Serbians separate the men and boys in Srbrenica from the women and girls. What happens to the women and girls?
(a) They are deported.
(b) They are raped.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are left alone.

3. 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) The Soviet Union.
(c) Great Britain.
(d) Germany.

4. In what year does President Reagan lay a wreath at Germany's Bitburg Cemetery, which holds the graves of 49 Nazi SS officials?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1984.

5. What is the purpose of President Reagan's trip to Germany, which includes a visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery?
(a) To commemorate the end of WWI.
(b) To commemorate the end of WWII.
(c) To draw attention to the Holocaust.
(d) To ask Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reaction of many countries to refugees that they knew would be killed if forced to return to Germany?

2. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?

3. 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?

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

5. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

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