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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Raphael Lemkin's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Politician.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Soldier.

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

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

4. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?
(a) The National Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(b) The League of Nations.
(c) The Allies' international military tribunal.
(d) The UN General Assembly.

5. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1918.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."

3. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?

4. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?

5. Key to the definition of genocide is that it is an attempt to wipe out an entire:

(see the answer key)

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