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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date is the law banning genocide passed?
(a) Not applicable; it was defeated on December 9, 1948.
(b) December 9, 1948.
(c) December 8, 1949.
(d) December 21, 1950.

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

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

4. President Carter makes the first public condemnation of the Khmer Rouge in ____1978.
(a) September.
(b) April.
(c) January.
(d) August.

5. Lemkin believes that both the ___________ and _________ existence of groups needs to be preserved.
(a) Cultural; psychological.
(b) National; cultural.
(c) Financial; physical.
(d) Physical; cultural.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nonbinding measure is suggested as a replacement of the UN genocide treaty, angering Lemkin?

2. What governmental position does Mehmed Talaat, who conducts the genocide, hold?

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

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

5. What proportion of United Nations member states must ratify a measure before it becomes international law?

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