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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do most of the Kurds killed by the Iraqis die?
(a) Gas attacks.
(b) Biological attacks.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Mass executions.

2. Hutu gunmen and soldiers, within hours of the president's death, execute virtually all of Rwanda's __________ politicians.
(a) Moderate.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Independent.

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

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?
(a) The Arusha Accords.
(b) The UN Accords.
(c) The Kigali Accords.
(d) The Rwanda Accords.

5. The author focuses on which country's response to genocide?
(a) America.
(b) Canada.
(c) The United Kingdom.
(d) Denmark.

Short Answer Questions

1. On April 6, 1994, the jet of Rwanda's president is shot down with the president on board. What is the president's name?

2. On April 16, 1994, which American newspaper reports the deaths of 1,200 Tutsi (men, women, and children) in a church building?

3. Out of a population of 7 million souls, approximately how many people does the Khmer Rouge kill in its three-and-a-half-year rule?

4. In America, according to Power, the struggle to stop genocide is often determined by:

5. In what country is Power a journalist during the genocide that takes place in the former Yugoslavia?

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