View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which substance is not used by Iraqi forces in the attack on Halabja?
(a) Sarin.
(b) Mustard gas.
(c) Tabun.
(d) Ricin.

2. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Iran.
(d) Turkey.

3. In 1990, after the U.S. Senate cuts off Iraq's financial assistance and credit line, what happened?
(a) Saddam Hussein was overthrown by his military.
(b) Iraq invaded Iran.
(c) Iraq invaded Kuwait.
(d) Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. Marines.

4. What is the name of the Polish diplomat and Roman Catholic who infiltrates first the Warsaw ghetto and later a death camp in order to report on Jewish suffering?
(a) Lech Walesa.
(b) Karol Wojtyla.
(c) Szmul Zygielbojm.
(d) Jan Karski.

5. What happens on Dec. 11, 1946?
(a) The General Assembly defeates a resolution condemning genocide
(b) The General Assembly passes a resolution condemning genocide.
(c) World War II ends.
(d) The last concentration camp is liberated.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.

3. 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?

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

5. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 282 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample