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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In October 1945, the Nuremberg indictments all mention ______________ in an international legal setting, although it is not be mentioned in the convictions.
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Warmongering.
(c) Genocide.
(d) War crimes.

2. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:
(a) International politics.
(b) Special interests and civil rights groups.
(c) Lobbyists.
(d) Domestic politics.

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

4. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Syria.

5. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Twentieth.
(d) Nineteenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what event is Lemkin invited to Spain to read his paper?

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

3. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.

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

5. The officials of what country prevent Lemkin from traveling to Madrid to present his paper on the rise of Hitler and the Armenian genocide?

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