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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Senator Proxmire continues to give a speech a day to the Senate on genocide. By the early __________, more Americans seem to be open to the idea of ratifying the genocide treaty.
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1960s.

2. The officials of what country prevent Lemkin from traveling to Madrid to present his paper on the rise of Hitler and the Armenian genocide?
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Poland.

3. People have often argued that the United States don't know what is happening in countries where ___________ is occurring.
(a) Civil war.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Genocide.

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

5. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?
(a) The genocide convention was passed after the Nuremberg trials had ended.
(b) The international community saw the issue as a national, not personal, crime.
(c) The international community focused on prosecuting military organizations and governments.
(d) Nuremberg covered only cross-border crimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kurdish refugees begin pouring into ____________ and pouring out stories of their suffering to anyone who would listen.

2. Which senator begins denouncing Yugoslavia's human rights issues in the 1980s?

3. Lemkin had read many of the histories detailing what crime?

4. Lemkin had long been fascinated by ____________.

5. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?

(see the answer key)

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