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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?
(a) My Lai.
(b) Siem Reap.
(c) Phnom Penh.
(d) Penh Phnom.

2. One year after the U.S. ratifies the genocide convention, who is the president of Iraq?
(a) Saddam Hussein.
(b) Hamid Karzai.
(c) Ali Hassan al-Majid.
(d) Reza Pahlavi.

3. Talaat conducts the Armenian genocide because he feels there is no room for __________ in Turkey.
(a) Muslims.
(b) Christians.
(c) Minorities.
(d) Armenians.

4. From whom does the most detailed evidence of the atrocities come?
(a) Journalists who are stationed in the region.
(b) The area's UN special reporter for human rights.
(c) Three Muslim women who escape.
(d) Three Muslim men who survive a massacre.

5. Which government in the civil war that ended with the Khmer Rouge's coup does the United States back because they see its leader as more pro-American?
(a) Lon Nol.
(b) Nol Rouge.
(c) Viet Cong.
(d) Khmer Rouge.

Short Answer Questions

1. In response to the bombing, Serbian forces expell 1.3 million Kosovars, _____________ of which flee to Macedonia and Albania.

2. After the U.S. embassy in London cables Washington with news of the Srbrenica atrocities, how do senior U.S. and UN officials treat the situation?

3. In 1994, what measure does the UN Security Council take against the Serbs?

4. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.

5. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.

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