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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lemkin realizes that for a genocide convention to be passed and ratified, he needs to appeal to the _____________ of the delegates.
(a) Pocketbooks.
(b) Domestic political interests.
(c) Foreign political interests.
(d) Intellect and emotions.

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

3. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Extermination.
(c) Racism.
(d) Persecution.

4. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?
(a) The Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
(b) Armenia.
(c) France.
(d) Britain.

5. Who coins the word "genocide" to describe the atrocities in Nazi Germany and in Turkey?
(a) Zygielbojm.
(b) Lemkin.
(c) Karski.
(d) Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?

3. Some who are opposed to the United States' ratification of the genocide treaty think it is too broad and therefore can't be used to target what country?

4. Talaat conducts the Armenian genocide because he feels there is no room for __________ in Turkey.

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

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