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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.
(a) Some.
(b) A great deal of.
(c) Zero.
(d) Very little.

2. Ultimately, Lemkin's fight is for an international law on ________________.
(a) Legal standards.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Financial standards.
(d) War crimes.

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

4. On what date does Raphael Lemkin die?
(a) August 28, 1959.
(b) April 1, 1984.
(c) August 29, 1958.
(d) April 28, 1950.

5. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?
(a) European Jews.
(b) Romanian Gypsies.
(c) French Basques.
(d) Armenians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?

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

3. Why does Lemkin flee to Lithuania and then Sweden in 1939?

4. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.

5. 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?

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