"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Samantha Power
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"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) London.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Amsterdam.

2. The Allies set up an international military tribunal in ________________ to prosecute Nazi war criminals.
(a) Paris.
(b) Nuremberg.
(c) New York.
(d) Copenhagen.

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

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

5. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?
(a) Serb.
(b) Croat.
(c) Albanian.
(d) Bosnian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?

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

4. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:

5. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?

(see the answer key)

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