View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1991, __________ begins to break up into smaller countries.
(a) The Ottoman Empire.
(b) Yugoslavia.
(c) Czechoslovakia.
(d) The Soviet Union.

2. After Lemkin's death, William Proxmire, a senator from ________________, takes up the movement to have the genocide convention ratified in the U.S.
(a) Wisconsin
(b) Michigan.
(c) Washington.
(d) Wyoming.

3. What is Raphael Lemkin's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Politician.
(d) Doctor.

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

5. In 1948, Lemkin flies to _____________ to lobby the subcommittee that was preparing the actual text of the convention.
(a) Vienna.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Zurich.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Milosevic arrives at the War Crimes Tribunal, he becomes the _______ Yugoslav war crimes suspect behind UN bars.

2. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which responds with force to the Hutu's political assassinations, thereby reigniting a civil war that had been smoldering, belongs to which Rwandan tribe?

3. What bad news does Zygielbojm receive in 1943?

4. Which ethnic group is responsible for the aggression against minorities after Yugoslavia's collapse?

5. Which substance is not used by Iraqi forces in the attack on Halabja?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 219 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample