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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The genocide convention needs to be ratified domestically by _______ of the UN's member states in order to become international law.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Forty.
(d) Ten.

2. Which senator begins denouncing Yugoslavia's human rights issues in the 1980s?
(a) Ted Kennedy.
(b) Bob Dole.
(c) Hillary Clinton.
(d) Strom Thurmond.

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

4. The Bosnian Serbs' actions against non-Serbs are euphemistically referred to as:
(a) Ethnic unification.
(b) Ethnic cleansing.
(c) Ethnic purification.
(d) Ethnic re-alignment.

5. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.
(a) Wyoming.
(b) Wisconsin
(c) Washington.
(d) Michigan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.

2. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

3. Which concentration center does British Independent Television gain footage of?

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

5. What city does the Khmer Rouge seize in 1975 after a five-year civil war and defeat of the incumbent, American-backed government?

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