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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Serbians separate the men and boys in Srbrenica from the women and girls. What happens to the women and girls?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They are left alone.
(c) They are raped.
(d) They are deported.

2. For what event is Lemkin invited to Spain to read his paper?
(a) International humanitarian conference.
(b) International political conference.
(c) International law conference.
(d) International genocide conference.

3. What is not yet invented at the time the Armenian genocide takes places and is therefore not available as a means by which to communicate news and information about it?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Television.
(c) Photography.
(d) Telegraph.

4. Henry Morgenthau, a U.S. ambassador, contests America's lack of action in opposing the Armenian genocide. To which country is Morgenthau assigned?
(a) Britain.
(b) The Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
(c) Armenia.
(d) France.

5. The Khmer Rouge, in conducting their genocide, eliminates anyone deemed a(n) __________or a(n) _________.
(a) Intellectual; enemy.
(b) Traitor; intellectual.
(c) Invalid; intellectual.
(d) Enemy; traitor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 100 days, some ___________ Tutsi, as well as the Hutu politicians, are murdered.

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

3. As the resolution is discussed, some delegates advocate the use of ____________ instead of "genocide."

4. Major General Dallaire is stationed in Rwanda to help make sure what power-sharing agreement that, until the downing of the presidential plane held civil war at bay, is observed?

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

(see the answer key)

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