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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.
(a) Denies, denies.
(b) Ignores, denies.
(c) Acknowledges, denies.
(d) Ignores, acknowledges.

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

4. Some who are opposed to the United States' ratification of the genocide treaty think it would be used to target the United States for its treatment of __________________.
(a) Native Americans.
(b) African Americans and Japanese Americans.
(c) Native Americans and African Americans.
(d) Native Americans and Japanese Americans.

5. What American institution presents some discussion on actions that the U.S. could have taken to help Jews?
(a) The Museum of American History.
(b) The Smithsonian Institution.
(c) The World War II Memorial.
(d) The U.S. Holocaust Museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. The genocide convention receives U.S. support at the UN and many are ____________ its domestic ratification.

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

3. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.

4. What is the name of the person who assassinates Talaat in 1921?

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

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