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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Western journalists, including _______________, still in the country describe Khmer Rouge brutality and report accounts from refugees.
(a) Elizabeth Becker.
(b) Peter Jennings.
(c) Walter Cronkite.
(d) Samantha Moore.

2. What is the purpose of President Reagan's trip to Germany, which includes a visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery?
(a) To ask Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
(b) To commemorate the end of WWII.
(c) To commemorate the end of WWI.
(d) To draw attention to the Holocaust.

3. What is the name of the person who assassinates Talaat in 1921?
(a) Soghomon Talirian.
(b) Soghomon Tehlirian.
(c) Solomon Tehlirian.
(d) Solomon Talirian.

4. What Power sees in the former Yugoslavia causes her to examine other _______-century genocides.
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Twentieth.
(c) Nineteenth.
(d) Seventeenth.

5. When the Iraqi government orders Kurds to move into collective centers, any Kurd who remains in a prohibited area is:
(a) Considered a traitor and executed.
(b) Considered a traitor and tortured.
(c) Forcibly relocated.
(d) Tortured, then executed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't the international community prosecute individuals for their roles in exterminating millions of German Jews?

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

3. Which country tries unsuccessfully to charge Turkish leaders with criminal behavior in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide?

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

5. Some countries, like France and Belgium, have investigated their roles in the __________ genocide but the United States has been resistant to this idea.

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