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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Telegraph.
(b) Television.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Photography.

2. Why does Lemkin flee to Lithuania and then Sweden in 1939?
(a) Turkey puts a bounty on his head.
(b) Hitler invades Poland.
(c) The Polish government wants to arrest him.
(d) France is seeking his extradition.

3. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?
(a) Prime minister.
(b) Interior minister.
(c) Minister of public safety.
(d) Crown prince.

4. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.
(a) A disease outbreak among the Armenians.
(b) Armenian birth rates.
(c) Armenian revolt.
(d) Armenian attempts to convert Turkey's Muslims to Christianity.

5. The United States has done ______________ in actual situations of crimes against humanity.
(a) A great deal.
(b) More than its fair share.
(c) Little.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.

2. In what country is Power a journalist during the genocide that takes place in the former Yugoslavia?

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

4. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?

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

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