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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Newspapers.
(b) Photography.
(c) Telegraph.
(d) Television.

2. Why does Lemkin flee to Lithuania and then Sweden in 1939?
(a) Turkey puts a bounty on his head.
(b) France is seeking his extradition.
(c) The Polish government wants to arrest him.
(d) Hitler invades Poland.

3. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.
(a) Twentieth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Eighteenth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.

2. What ethnicity is Raphael Lemkin?

3. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:

4. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?

5. How does Proxmire make his case for ratification of the genocide treaty?

(see the answer key)

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