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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens on February 11, 1986?
(a) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty went up for a full Senate vote.
(b) The U.S. version of the genocide treaty was rejected in the Senate.
(c) President Reagan nearly died in an assassination attempt.
(d) The U.S. Holocaust Museum was opened to the public.

2. In what year does President Reagan lay a wreath at Germany's Bitburg Cemetery, which holds the graves of 49 Nazi SS officials?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1986.

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

4. What group of people does Lemkin crusade on behalf of?
(a) Armenians.
(b) French Basques.
(c) Romanian Gypsies.
(d) European Jews.

5. On April 6, 1994, the jet of Rwanda's president is shot down with the president on board. What is the president's name?
(a) Habyarimana Cyprien.
(b) Cyprien Ntaryamira.
(c) Juvenal Habyarimana.
(d) Cyprien Bagosora.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does Raphael Lemkin die?

2. President Clinton closes the Rwandan embassy in Washington and seizes its assets after:

3. What is the name of the book that Lemkin publishes in his attempt to help people believe the claims?

4. America officially ________, and Turkey officially _____________, the Armenian genocide. This stance is true with both countries to this day.

5. Whom does Iraq's president appoint as secretary-general of the Northern Bureau?

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