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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?
(a) Hitler's Extermination Program in Occupied Europe.
(b) The Jewish Solution.
(c) Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.
(d) Occupied Europe under Axis Rule.

2. What happens on February 11, 1986?
(a) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty went up for a full Senate vote.
(b) The U.S. Holocaust Museum was opened to the public.
(c) President Reagan nearly died in an assassination attempt.
(d) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty was rejected in the Senate.

3. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?
(a) Mladic.
(b) Vasiljkovic.
(c) Karadzic.
(d) Milosevic.

4. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?
(a) The international community saw the issue as a national, not personal, crime.
(b) The international community focused on prosecuting military organizations and governments.
(c) Nuremberg covered only cross-border crimes.
(d) The genocide convention was passed after the Nuremberg trials had ended.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On which humanitarian crisis does the U.S. government focus in an attempt to deflect attention and public pressure away from Bosnia?

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. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?

4. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?

5. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:

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