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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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) Karol Wojtyla.
(b) Jan Karski.
(c) Szmul Zygielbojm.
(d) Lech Walesa.

4. Ultimately, Lemkin's fight is for an international law on ________________.
(a) War crimes.
(b) Financial standards.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Legal standards.

5. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?
(a) Serb.
(b) Bosnian.
(c) Croat.
(d) Albanian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Historically, according to Power, the United States has been ____________ to recognize and act when genocide occurred.

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

3. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?

4. What ethnicity is Raphael Lemkin?

5. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?

(see the answer key)

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