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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?
(a) Public awareness.
(b) Military intervention.
(c) Financial relief.
(d) Diplomatic intervention.

2. When the Iraqi government orders Kurds to move into collective centers, any Kurd who remains in a prohibited area is:
(a) Considered a traitor and tortured.
(b) Considered a traitor and executed.
(c) Tortured, then executed.
(d) Forcibly relocated.

3. One year after the U.S. ratifies the genocide convention, who is the president of Iraq?
(a) Ali Hassan al-Majid.
(b) Hamid Karzai.
(c) Reza Pahlavi.
(d) Saddam Hussein.

4. How do most of the Kurds killed by the Iraqis die?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Gas attacks.
(c) Biological attacks.
(d) Mass executions.

5. In 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.
(a) Geneva.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Vienna.
(d) Zurich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Talaat conducts the Armenian genocide because he feels there is no room for __________ in Turkey.

2. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.

3. Out of a population of 7 million souls, approximately how many people does the Khmer Rouge kill in its three-and-a-half-year rule?

4. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.

5. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.

(see the answer key)

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