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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In what year does the Armenian genocide, which kills nearly 1 million people, take place?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1916.

3. Key to the definition of genocide is that it is an attempt to wipe out an entire:
(a) Religion.
(b) Race.
(c) Group.
(d) Ethnicity.

4. From 1983 to 1988, the United States gives Iraq more than ____________ per year in credit so that Iraq could purchase American products.
(a) $5 million.
(b) $50 million.
(c) $500 million.
(d) $1 billion.

5. Some European countries take exception to the _____________ within the U.S.'s ratification resolution.
(a) Genocide exemptions.
(b) Definition of genocide.
(c) Amnesty clause.
(d) Sovereignty restrictions.

Short Answer Questions

1. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.

2. Armenians who are not killed are deported by force to camps in what country?

3. Why does Lemkin flee to Lithuania and then Sweden in 1939?

4. On what date does the Allied government condemn Turkey's action against the Armenians?

5. What is the name of the Polish diplomat and Roman Catholic who infiltrates first the Warsaw ghetto and later a death camp in order to report on Jewish suffering?

(see the answer key)

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