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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?
(a) Financial relief.
(b) Diplomatic intervention.
(c) Military intervention.
(d) Public awareness.

2. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?
(a) Romanian Gypsies.
(b) European Jews.
(c) French Basques.
(d) Armenians.

3. In the Preface, Power describes a _____-year-old Sarajevan who was killed in a bombing.
(a) Nine.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Nineteen.

4. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.
(a) Some.
(b) No.
(c) A great deal of.
(d) Very little.

5. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?
(a) Karski.
(b) Zygielbojm.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Lemkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?

2. The enforcement mechanisms spelled out in the convention are more explicit about _____________ than _________ of genocide.

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

4. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?

5. As information about Hitler's extermination of the Jews becomes more widespread, what is the reaction of the majority of people?

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