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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
(a) April.
(b) September.
(c) August.
(d) January.

2. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:
(a) Special interests and civil rights groups.
(b) Domestic politics.
(c) Lobbyists.
(d) International politics.

3. Lemkin had long been fascinated by ____________.
(a) Insurrection.
(b) Atrocity.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Islam.

4. 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) Nol Rouge.
(b) Viet Cong.
(c) Khmer Rouge.
(d) Lon Nol.

5. The genocide convention needs to be ratified domestically by _______ of the UN's member states in order to become international law.
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Forty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.

3. By 1976, nearly ___________ Cambodians are dead.

4. The nationalists who kill the young Sarajevan of whom Power spoke are of what ethnicity?

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

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