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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?
(a) He was to be deported to Treblinka.
(b) His wife and child had died at Auschwitz.
(c) His wife had died in the Krakow ghetto.
(d) His wife and child had died in the Warsaw ghetto.

2. The genocide convention receives U.S. support at the UN and many are ____________ its domestic ratification.
(a) Active advocates for.
(b) In support of.
(c) Undecided about.
(d) Opposed to.

3. In response to demands for his rule to end, Serbia's leader brutalizes what minority in Kosovo?
(a) Croats.
(b) Bosnians.
(c) Macedonians.
(d) Albanians.

4. 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) Berlin.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) London.

5. Which concentration camp does Reagan visit during his trip to Germany in response to people's complaints about his laying a wreath at a cemetery that includes the graves of nearly 50 Nazi SS officials?
(a) Bergen-Belsen.
(b) Treblinka.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Mauthausen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some European countries take exception to the _____________ within the U.S.'s ratification resolution.

2. Some who are opposed to the United States' ratification of the genocide treaty think it is too broad and therefore can't be used to target what country?

3. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?

4. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.

5. Talaat conducts the Armenian genocide because he feels there is no room for __________ in Turkey.

(see the answer key)

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