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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Siberia.
(d) Syria.

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

4. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.
(a) Invalid; intellectual.
(b) Enemy; traitor.
(c) Traitor; intellectual.
(d) Intellectual; enemy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What issue plagues the genocide convention?

3. 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?

4. Lemkin had long been fascinated by ____________.

5. Out of a population of 7 million souls, approximately how many people does the Khmer Rouge kill in its three-and-a-half-year rule?

(see the answer key)

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