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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?
(a) Siberia.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Syria.
(d) Iraq.

2. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?
(a) Racism.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Ethnic cleansing.
(d) Crimes against humanity.

3. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.
(a) Seventeenth.
(b) Eighteenth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Twentieth.

4. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:
(a) Domestic politics.
(b) International politics.
(c) Special interests and civil rights groups.
(d) Lobbyists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?

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

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

4. The United States has done ______________ in actual situations of crimes against humanity.

5. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?

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