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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Western journalists, including _______________, still in the country describe Khmer Rouge brutality and report accounts from refugees.
(a) Elizabeth Becker.
(b) Samantha Moore.
(c) Walter Cronkite.
(d) Peter Jennings.

2. People have often argued that the United States don't know what is happening in countries where ___________ is occurring.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Civil war.

3. What is not yet invented at the time the Armenian genocide takes places and is therefore not available as a means by which to communicate news and information about it?
(a) Photography.
(b) Television.
(c) Telegraph.
(d) Newspapers.

4. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?
(a) Minister of public safety.
(b) Crown prince.
(c) Prime minister.
(d) Interior minister.

5. Which government in the civil war that ended with the Khmer Rouge's coup does the United States back because they see its leader as more pro-American?
(a) Khmer Rouge.
(b) Nol Rouge.
(c) Viet Cong.
(d) Lon Nol.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. There has been __________ public recognition of the Allies' inaction with regard to the Holocaust.

3. As of the time the genocide treaty became international law, what country had not yet ratified it?

4. What nonbinding measure is suggested as a replacement of the UN genocide treaty, angering Lemkin?

5. Power witnesses the Serbs' takeover of:

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