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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 report them to the Nazis.
(b) They put them in refugee camps.
(c) They grant them asylum.
(d) They refuse them entry.

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

3. What is not yet invented at the time the Armenian genocide takes places and is therefore not available as a means by which to communicate news and information about it?
(a) Photography.
(b) Telegraph.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Television.

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

5. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?
(a) Mass slaughter.
(b) Treason.
(c) Rape.
(d) Mass suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?

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

3. In what country is Power a journalist during the genocide that takes place in the former Yugoslavia?

4. Ultimately, Lemkin's fight is for an international law on ________________.

5. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?

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