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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 UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?
(a) Vaclav Havel.
(b) Ban-Ki Moon.
(c) Lech Walesa.
(d) Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

2. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?
(a) He dies of natural causes.
(b) He is executed in a death camp.
(c) He dies of a heart attack.
(d) He commits suicide.

3. 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.

4. What is the reaction of many countries to refugees that they knew would be killed if forced to return to Germany?
(a) They report them to the Nazis.
(b) They refuse them entry.
(c) They grant them asylum.
(d) They put them in refugee camps.

5. In what year does the Genocide Convention Implementation Act become law?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Serbians separate the men and boys in Srbrenica from the women and girls. What happens to the women and girls?

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

4. Senator Bob Dole introduces a bill in the U.S. Senate that calls for what measure to be taken in order to help the Muslims in the Balkans?

5. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.

(see the answer key)

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