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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 the name of the Polish diplomat and Roman Catholic who infiltrates first the Warsaw ghetto and later a death camp in order to report on Jewish suffering?
(a) Szmul Zygielbojm.
(b) Karol Wojtyla.
(c) Jan Karski.
(d) Lech Walesa.

2. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?
(a) He was to be deported to Treblinka.
(b) His wife and child had died in the Warsaw ghetto.
(c) His wife had died in the Krakow ghetto.
(d) His wife and child had died at Auschwitz.

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

4. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) London.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Warsaw.

5. What ethnicity is Raphael Lemkin?
(a) Polish Jew.
(b) Russian Jew.
(c) Armenian.
(d) German Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When the United States sets up the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, what does the group not call for on behalf of the Armenians?

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

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

5. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.

(see the answer key)

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