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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What issue plagues the genocide convention?
(a) State sovereignty.
(b) State prejudices against certain ethnic groups.
(c) International unity.
(d) Political ideologies.

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

3. 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 executed.
(b) Forcibly relocated.
(c) Considered a traitor and tortured.
(d) Tortured, then executed.

4. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?
(a) The UN General Assembly.
(b) The National Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(c) The Allies' international military tribunal.
(d) The League of Nations.

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 U.S. Holocaust Museum.
(c) The Smithsonian Institution.
(d) The Museum of American History.

Short Answer Questions

1. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?

2. Which government in the civil war that ended with the Khmer Rouge's coup does the United States back because they see its leader as more pro-American?

3. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.

4. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?

5. In October 1945, the Nuremberg indictments all mention ______________ in an international legal setting, although it is not be mentioned in the convictions.

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