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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what event is Lemkin invited to Spain to read his paper?
(a) International law conference.
(b) International political conference.
(c) International genocide conference.
(d) International humanitarian conference.

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

3. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?
(a) The Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) Armenia.

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) Warsaw.
(c) Berlin.
(d) London.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

4. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?

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

(see the answer key)

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