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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?
(a) He dies of natural causes.
(b) He dies of a heart attack.
(c) He commits suicide.
(d) He is executed in a death camp.

2. What is the reaction of many countries to refugees that they knew would be killed if forced to return to Germany?
(a) They refuse them entry.
(b) They put them in refugee camps.
(c) They grant them asylum.
(d) They report them to the Nazis.

3. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?
(a) Serb.
(b) Croat.
(c) Albanian.
(d) Bosnian.

4. Which U.S. government official does Lemkin try to approach regarding Hitler?
(a) Vice-President Truman.
(b) President Roosevelt.
(c) Secretary of War Henry Stimson
(d) Secretary of State Cordell Hull

5. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.
(a) Intellect and emotions.
(b) Domestic political interests.
(c) Foreign political interests.
(d) Pocketbooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.

2. The Allies have ____________ intelligence on Hitler's extermination of European Jews.

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

4. Talaat conducts the Armenian genocide because he feels there is no room for __________ in Turkey.

5. What issue plagues the genocide convention?

(see the answer key)

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