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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Senator Proxmire continues to give a speech a day to the Senate on genocide. By the early __________, more Americans seem to be open to the idea of ratifying the genocide treaty.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1980s.

2. President Clinton closes the Rwandan embassy in Washington and seizes its assets after:
(a) Rwanda closes the U.S. embassy in Kigali.
(b) Somalia invades Rwanda.
(c) The RPF gains control over most of Rwanda.
(d) The Hutu gains control over most of Rwanda.

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

4. What is the name of the UN official who releases a report on July 24, 1995, that says 7,000 Srbrenica residents have disappeared?
(a) Lech Walesa.
(b) Ban-Ki Moon.
(c) Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
(d) Vaclav Havel.

5. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?
(a) Diplomatic intervention.
(b) Financial relief.
(c) Public awareness.
(d) Military intervention.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?

2. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

3. What is the name of the Polish diplomat and Roman Catholic who infiltrates first the Warsaw ghetto and later a death camp in order to report on Jewish suffering?

4. On what date does Raphael Lemkin die?

5. The Serb crackdown in Kosovo is endangering a fragile peace in Bosnia on which the U.S. had already spent more than:

(see the answer key)

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