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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?
(a) Nuremberg covered only cross-border crimes.
(b) The international community saw the issue as a national, not personal, crime.
(c) The international community focused on prosecuting military organizations and governments.
(d) The genocide convention was passed after the Nuremberg trials had ended.

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

3. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Syria.
(d) Iraq.

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

5. What American institution presents some discussion on actions that the U.S. could have taken to help Jews?
(a) The World War II Memorial.
(b) The Museum of American History.
(c) The Smithsonian Institution.
(d) The U.S. Holocaust Museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.

2. In what country does the Khmer Rouge conduct its genocidal campaign?

3. Out of an overall population of 18 million Iraqis, how many are "problematic" (according to the government) Kurds?

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

5. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.

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