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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:
(a) Pristina.
(b) Srbrenica.
(c) Sarajevo.
(d) Split.

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

5. 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) Photography.
(b) Telegraph.
(c) Television.
(d) Newspapers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?

2. In the Preface, Power describes a _____-year-old Sarajevan who was killed in a bombing.

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

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

5. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?

(see the answer key)

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