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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Afghanistan.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Iran.

2. Turkey claims its actions are necessary to suppress _______________.
(a) Armenian revolt.
(b) A disease outbreak among the Armenians.
(c) Armenian birth rates.
(d) Armenian attempts to convert Turkey's Muslims to Christianity.

3. Which concentration camp does Reagan visit during his trip to Germany in response to people's complaints about his laying a wreath at a cemetery that includes the graves of nearly 50 Nazi SS officials?
(a) Treblinka.
(b) Bergen-Belsen.
(c) Mauthausen.
(d) Auschwitz.

4. In the Preface, Power describes a _____-year-old Sarajevan who was killed in a bombing.
(a) Two.
(b) Nine.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Six.

5. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?
(a) Crown prince.
(b) Minister of public safety.
(c) Interior minister.
(d) Prime minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.

3. How does Szmul Zygielbojm die?

4. People have often argued that the United States don't know what is happening in countries where ___________ is occurring.

5. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.

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