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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lemkin notes earlier in the century that _________ and genocide are almost always connected.
(a) Natural disaster.
(b) Famine.
(c) Poverty.
(d) War.

2. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?
(a) Racism.
(b) Crimes against humanity.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Ethnic cleansing.

3. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?
(a) The Jewish Solution.
(b) Occupied Europe under Axis Rule.
(c) Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.
(d) Hitler's Extermination Program in Occupied Europe.

4. By 1976, nearly ___________ Cambodians are dead.
(a) 50,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 250,000.

5. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."
(a) Racism.
(b) Extermination.
(c) Terrorism.
(d) Persecution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Iraq's president appoint as secretary-general of the Northern Bureau?

2. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?

3. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?

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

5. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.

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