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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Raphael Lemkin's profession?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Politician.
(d) Soldier.

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

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

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

5. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.
(a) A great deal of.
(b) Some.
(c) No.
(d) Very little.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. People have often argued that the United States don't know what is happening in countries where ___________ is occurring.

3. The officials of what country prevent Lemkin from traveling to Madrid to present his paper on the rise of Hitler and the Armenian genocide?

4. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?

5. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?

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