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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?
(a) Mass suicide.
(b) Rape.
(c) Treason.
(d) Mass slaughter.

2. In 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.
(a) Berlin.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Zurich.
(d) Vienna.

3. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?
(a) Britain.
(b) Armenia.
(c) The Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
(d) France.

4. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?
(a) Three-fifths.
(b) One-third.
(c) Three-quarters.
(d) Two-thirds.

5. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?
(a) Nuremberg covered only cross-border crimes.
(b) The international community focused on prosecuting military organizations and governments.
(c) The international community saw the issue as a national, not personal, crime.
(d) The genocide convention was passed after the Nuremberg trials had ended.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Serbian forces executed over 7,000 Muslims in a _____________.

3. What happens on Dec. 11, 1946?

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

5. What is the reaction of many countries to refugees that they knew would be killed if forced to return to Germany?

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