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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the person who assassinates Talaat in 1921?
(a) Solomon Talirian.
(b) Solomon Tehlirian.
(c) Soghomon Tehlirian.
(d) Soghomon Talirian.

4. Lemkin had long been fascinated by ____________.
(a) Judaism.
(b) Atrocity.
(c) Insurrection.
(d) Islam.

5. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?
(a) Romanian Gypsies.
(b) Armenians.
(c) European Jews.
(d) French Basques.

Short Answer Questions

1. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?

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

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

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

5. Lemkin believes that both the ___________ and _________ existence of groups needs to be preserved.

(see the answer key)

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