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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Key to the definition of genocide is that it is an attempt to wipe out an entire:
(a) Ethnicity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Race.
(d) Group.

2. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?
(a) America.
(b) Canada.
(c) The United Kingdom.
(d) Denmark.

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

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

5. People have often argued that the United States don't know what is happening in countries where ___________ is occurring.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Civil war.
(d) Genocide.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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