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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 reaction of many countries to refugees that they knew would be killed if forced to return to Germany?
(a) They put them in refugee camps.
(b) They refuse them entry.
(c) They grant them asylum.
(d) They report them to the Nazis.

2. The term "class enemy" that is used by the Khmer Rouge often translated into which group of people?
(a) Intellectuals.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Politicians.

3. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:
(a) Ethnic purification.
(b) Ethnic unification.
(c) Ethnic re-alignment.
(d) Ethnic cleansing.

4. In what year does the Genocide Convention Implementation Act become law?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1987.

5. Out of an overall population of 18 million Iraqis, how many are "problematic" (according to the government) Kurds?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 8 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 400,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.

3. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?

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

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

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