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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?
(a) Two-thirds.
(b) Three-quarters.
(c) One-third.
(d) Three-fifths.

2. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.
(a) Football stadium.
(b) Pig farm.
(c) Elementary school.
(d) Mosque.

3. The officials of what country prevent Lemkin from traveling to Madrid to present his paper on the rise of Hitler and the Armenian genocide?
(a) Poland.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Turkey.

4. 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) Lech Walesa.
(d) Szmul Zygielbojm.

5. Lemkin believes that both the ___________ and _________ existence of groups needs to be preserved.
(a) National; cultural.
(b) Financial; physical.
(c) Physical; cultural.
(d) Cultural; psychological.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.

2. 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?

3. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.

4. The United States has done ______________ in actual situations of crimes against humanity.

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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