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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lemkin notes earlier in the century that _________ and genocide are almost always connected.
(a) Natural disaster.
(b) Poverty.
(c) War.
(d) Famine.

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

3. What issue plagues the genocide convention?
(a) International unity.
(b) State prejudices against certain ethnic groups.
(c) State sovereignty.
(d) Political ideologies.

4. What term does the Allied condemnation apply to Turkey's persecution of the Armenians?
(a) Crimes against humanity.
(b) Ethnic cleansing.
(c) Racism.
(d) Genocide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1990, after the U.S. Senate cuts off Iraq's financial assistance and credit line, what happened?

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

3. The Serb crackdown in Kosovo is endangering a fragile peace in Bosnia on which the U.S. had already spent more than:

4. In 1994, the United States set aside half a million dollars to collect information and evidence on which genocide?

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

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