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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?
(a) Mass slaughter.
(b) Rape.
(c) Mass suicide.
(d) Treason.

2. In the Preface, Power describes a _____-year-old Sarajevan who was killed in a bombing.
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Nine.

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

4. In what country is Power a journalist during the genocide that takes place in the former Yugoslavia?
(a) Bosnia.
(b) Montenegro.
(c) Serbia.
(d) Croatia.

5. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1915.

Short Answer Questions

1. Historically, according to Power, the United States has been ____________ to recognize and act when genocide occurred.

2. What is the name of the person who assassinates Talaat in 1921?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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