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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. People have often argued that the United States don't know what is happening in countries where ___________ is occurring.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Civil war.
(d) Genocide.

2. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?
(a) France.
(b) United States.
(c) Britain.
(d) Russia.

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

4. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?
(a) Secretary of War Henry Stimson
(b) Secretary of State Cordell Hull
(c) Vice-President Truman.
(d) President Roosevelt.

5. In 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.
(a) Vienna.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Zurich.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?

3. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?

4. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?

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

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