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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?
(a) His wife had died in the Krakow ghetto.
(b) He was to be deported to Treblinka.
(c) His wife and child had died in the Warsaw ghetto.
(d) His wife and child had died at Auschwitz.

2. On April 16, 1994, which American newspaper reports the deaths of 1,200 Tutsi (men, women, and children) in a church building?
(a) The Chicago Tribune.
(b) USA Today.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Washington Post.

3. In the preface, Power identifies which Serbian leader as the ringleader of the Bosnian genocide?
(a) Milosevic.
(b) Mladic.
(c) Vasiljkovic.
(d) Karadzic.

4. On which humanitarian crisis does the U.S. government focus in an attempt to deflect attention and public pressure away from Bosnia?
(a) Afghanistan.
(b) Somalia.
(c) Romania.
(d) Ethiopia.

5. In what city is Szmul Zygielbojm, the man who releases a report prepared by an underground Jewish society in Poland that detailed the tactics Nazis were using to kill the Jews, located?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. One year after the U.S. ratifies the genocide convention, who is the president of Iraq?

2. Lemkin decides to lobby to what international body to adopt a resolution on genocide?

3. What issue plagues the genocide convention?

4. What is the name of the leader of the Khmer Rouge?

5. Historically, according to Power, the United States has been ____________ to recognize and act when genocide occurred.

(see the answer key)

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